The city's civil action against Glock shows how a municipal legal department can be deployed as a weapon for reform.

Emma Goldman visited Anderson’s place at 837 West Ainslie Street, where, the anarchist observed, “the entire furniture consisted of a piano, piano-stool, several broken cots, a table, and some kitchen ...

Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen during Game Two of the 1998 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz Photo: Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune The Last Dance, the ESPN docuseries about the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls ...

Sometimes, a man’s name outlives his fame. He may have monuments dedicated to him, cities or towns named after him, schools and parks bearing his name, but his achievements and his writings have faded ...

Jim Kelly remembers how his 91-year-old father died: alone in a nursing home bathroom after a long, agonizing battle with prostate cancer. Kelly, a 77-year-old Oak Park retiree, is now dealing with ...

On the opening track of her gorgeous new album, Sad and Beautiful World, Mavis Staples raises her voice in a chorus that could serve as an anthem for this city: “Maybe things will be better in Chicago ...

The building, red bricked, colonnaded, crowned with a white cupola, sits on a grassy knoll in northwest Hinsdale. Unmarked, unremarkable, it barely registers as anything more than a garden-variety ...

He was a ghost, in a way, the walking dead. Only he wasn’t dead, though he should have been, or would have been but for his own prescience. In a frozen corner of a park at an intersection in Des ...

When you cross a battleground and read a plaque commemorating the fallen and the brave, you start to believe you can feel the history in your bones. But what about the unmarked battleground, the one ...

In 1971, Eileen Smith was a 21-year-old dropout from Elmhurst College, broke and breaking out of a bad relationship. She was also accidentally pregnant. She wanted an abortion, but her options were ...

He’d had enough. Having been accused of sexual assault by a female acquaintance who lived in his Gold Coast apartment building, he was in a fight for, well, everything—his reputation, his career, his ...

When I first started interviewing Chicago youth about their interactions with the police, I never expected that I would spend a year and a half embedded with one of the most notorious gangs in the ...