Hands Off, Indiana
Our neighbor to the east is trying to annex downstate counties and, worse, lure the Bears, whom we’d actually miss.
Custom Placements: News Lead
The Awakening
This adapted excerpt from Karen Lewis’s posthumous new memoir recounts the transformation of the Chicago Teachers Union into a disrupter of the status quo.
How Much Sanctuary Can Chicago Really Offer?
Despite Chicago’s determination to protect immigrants from Trump’s deportation efforts, the city is limited in what it can do.
The Great AI Art Heist
A lab at the University of Chicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines.
The Next Mayor
Speculation has already begun on who might replace a beleaguered Brandon Johnson. Let’s handicap the field.
The New Face of Law and Order
Eileen O’Neill Burke was elected Cook County State’s Attorney by vowing to get tough on crime. But her approach to making Chicago safer is more nuanced than you might think.
Ranking the New Illinois State Flag Designs
It’s time to get rid of the old seal on a bedsheet.
Chrishona Hodges’s Life Sentence
At a crossroads when Chicago profiled him nine years ago, Jerryon Stevens is now in jail, awaiting trial on a murder charge. At home, his mother reckons with her son’s path — and tries to hold her fractured family together.
“We Need to Create Space for Someone in Prison to Evolve”
A new documentary, In Their Hands, examines Illinois’s parole system through one man’s story.