After ICE agents detained Abel Orozco without a warrant, his family and organizers across Chicago are fighting to bring him ...

The Exchange, the Weekly’s poetry corner, offers our thoughts in exchange for yours. The Weekly’s poetry corner, where a poem or piece of writing is presented with a prompt. Readers are welcome to ...

Due process is a bedrock of American democracy—it’s time for all of us to protect it from Trump’s authoritarian assaults.

The state requires jails to report when they use restraint chairs. For nearly 900 cases from 2019 to 2023, Cook County Jail ...

Marijuana was federally legalized in Mexico in 2021. There are outdoor points of sale set up across Mexico City where you can ...

The state requires jails to report when they use restraint chairs. For nearly 900 cases from 2019 to 2023, Cook County Jail never did.

A new ordinance would allow police to call snap curfews on large gatherings of teenagers anywhere in the city.

T he City Council confirmed Cook County Commissioner Anthony Quezada as the new alderperson of the 35th Ward on Monday. Mayor ...

The library, home to the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, will turn fifty years ...

ight before takeoff, my mom asked my sister to hand me the phone. I didn’t get a word in. She was already yelling, warning me not to give my sister any weed. I had packed a few edibles for my trip to ...