A documentary about Austin and grassroots efforts to empower the West Side neighborhood took home a win at the 68th annual ...

Two years after Mayor Brandon Johnson canceled the city’s ShotSpotter contract, his administration is planning to launch a ...

On Ogden Avenue in North Lawndale, a 50-foot pillar wrapped in a mural is a beacon for the free mural park to come alongside ...

Two years after Mayor Brandon Johnson canceled the city’s ShotSpotter contract, his administration is planning to launch a pilot program that will include testing other gunshot detection technologies ...

The Oak Park Regional Housing Center and Pivotal Housing Partners out of Cincinnati – are restoring the Laramie State Bank building.

Justin White Foreva is a full-time painter who’s legally blind. He has the progressive eye condition keratoconus ...

Open Books and the University of Illinois Chicago are hosting free college application essay workshops for high school ...

A new executive order signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson on Oct. 22 at Austin Town Hall creates a steering committee to implement Chicago Market City. It’s an effort to increase food access by supporting ...

If you drive south along Austin Boulevard, past the Eisenhower Expressway, you’ll find The Island, a quiet residential pocket tucked into the far southwest corner of Chicago’s West Side. Separated ...

Labor activists and former workers at a West Side manufacturer that makes seating for the CTA rallied Wednesday in protest of what they described as low wages, hazardous working conditions and ...