Martinez Duncan and Jeremiah Bush were locked in a Cook County Jail cell on Tier 5A when the fire started in their cell. People jailed on the tier called for help. At 7:15pm, an officer responded to ...

When Angela Dugan founded South Side Tours, she wasn’t just launching a business—she was creating a moving oral history project on wheels. Since rolling out its first official tour in August 2024, ...

The exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art highlights early railworkers and boxcar camps that formed on the South Side in the 1900s. Co-curator Ismael Cuevas points to a model railroad set ...

As funding cuts threaten Pilsen’s murals and war destroys Ukrainian mosaics, two communities are learning what makes public art endure. The large-scale mural El Abrazo (The Embrace) in El Paso ...

A once internationally known Black athlete comes alive again in a new biography detailing, in part, his life—and death—on the South Side of Chicago. Perhaps the most telling sentence in Sol Butler: An ...

Ava V. Marie stands by a foyer shrine. The founders say they take the spirituality aspect of sanctuary seriouslyeach doorway is a portal to a different space: spiritual, communal, then practice. April ...

You’ve seen them everywhere. A posed dancer on a solid blue background, skirts flowing behind her. “China Before Communism,” the poster proclaims. They are in the windows of liquor stores, little ...

The hammer and chisel are his main tools and South Chicago is his base. Sculptor and painter Roman Villarreal is the definition of an outsider artist. Homegrown and armed with a lifetime of ...

Some days, the roaches are so bad in Nicole Rappaport’s unit that her daughters are scared to get out of bed during the night. Her sons go around stomping them, she says. Over the last several years, ...

This investigation is the first in a series of projects that will document and explore public housing on the South Side. If you have tips or suggestions about coverage, email ...

Chicago’s missing person crisis is a Black issue. City Bureau and the Invisible Institute recently released a two-year investigation into how Chicago police handle missing person cases that shows the ...

Hundreds of nail holes pepper the dark-brown wood paneled walls of the repurposed 1920s brownstone. Each indentation serves as a kind of signature for every Black artist whose work has been exhibited ...