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On a chilly Friday evening in November, after prayers at a local mosque, Mamoun Alrif...
Sandra Otaka wasn't going to leave anything to chance. It was March 19, the day of th...
To the Editor: I was deeply disappointed by your October Story on the CHA's Service...
The Reporter recently received $75,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fo...
April 1986 Arab Americans in the Chicago area are often victims of vandalism, threa...
In the late afternoon of Nov. 7, hundreds gathered on the west side of the Madison St...
Minorities represented about 12 percent of the students enrolled at the University of...
Two years ago, Tankow Kwong stepped into a voting booth to cast his first ballot as a...
For 16 months, Norman A. Ospina Q. has engaged immigrants from Colombia, Mexico and E...
When Tyrone McGhee began missing classes at Austin Community Academy High School half...
Behind binoculars, Valerie C. Johnson cried. She watched from a car across the stre...
Rupa Shenoy was named The Chicago Reporter's new Robert R. McCormick Tribune Minority...
A year after its launch, city officials are still struggling to define and implement ...
If this is the year Democrats break an almost three-decade-long losing streak and win...
Chicago community areas that were at least 50 percent African American or Latino had ...
Renee, Christie and Amy, all 4-year-olds in preschool, began discussing the color of ...
When Peter Magai Bul and other Sudanese boys came to the attention of aid workers in ...
Contributing: Rupa Shenoy. Shawn Allee, Dominick Basta, Jocelyn Prince and Julia Stei...
In 1972, Illinois legislators proposed a lottery with the promise of bringing in more...
Tracey and LaDonna Redmond slowly take in a hot, sunny weekday on their farm--a plot ...
Kristen Schorsch and Steve Sierra. Janelle Frost, Megan Marz and Abbie Van Sickle T...
Maria Erdmann, Janelle Frost, Megan Marz, Heather J. Parker, Kristen Schorsch, Rupa S...
Several advocacy groups for women and the homeless are protesting tactics used in a c...
Gubernatorial candidates U.S. Rep. Rod R. Blagojevich and illinois Attorney General J...
Estrella Ravelo Alamar calls the master bedroom in her Hyde Park town home a "history...
Marilyn Miller was 12 when she and her family arrived in Chicago's Uptown neighborhoo...
At 9:35 on a Tuesday morning in June, the windowless waiting room n the Illinois Depa...
Nathan Handy wanted to be a barber, the kind who works hair shows in sold-out convent...
After a year as contributing writer, Sarah Karp has been promoted to reporter. Karp h...
To the Editor: I represent Tony Bryant, who was quoted in your May 2002 issue ("Som...
Native Americans are aggressively taking on problems such as alcoholism, high student...
Brian J. Rogal has been named associate editor. In addition to his editing responsibi...
To The Editor: As Alderman Shirley Coleman's media coordinator, my complaint with t...
Since 1976, about 950 black families have moved from Chicago Housing Authority develo...
Illinois legislators have voted to change the state law that automatically transfers ...
Wenona Thompson says she's a fighter. Sometimes, as she talks with her head bowed, sh...
Bi11 Brough had dreams of a country retreat near wildlife, wooded areas and small lak...
If you spend any time with the Rev. Christopher Alan Bullock, you'll hear him say tha...
Some consider Highland Park a suburban paradise: clean and pristine with tree-lined c...
For most, the stories of drug trafficking are documented in 30- and 60-second stories...
Consulting Editor Susan J. Schultz left the Reporter May 1. Schultz, who held the pos...
More than 120,000 low-income minority families live in sub-standard housing in Chicag...
In 1828, President John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary about meeting with a group of...
Minorities in the United States receive lower-quality health care than whites, even w...
The president of a mortgage company, found guilty of fraud for selling defective home...
Contrary to common belief, slavery continues to be practiced around the world, report...
In 1996, 18-year-old Mario Ramos, a popular member of St. Nicholas Catholic Church in...
Ernestine Jackson thought at first that the January chill invading her Englewood apar...
Tax scavenger Tony Bryant tops a list of the owners and management companies with chr...
To the editor: In its March 2002 edition, The Chicago Reporter's "Keeping Current" ...
Exploring the history and meanings of the word "nigger" helps strip it of its racist ...
Illinois denied cash welfare benefits from 1996 to 1999 to 10,298 women convicted of ...
An investment company is pressuring Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries to take a p...
Despite their mission to serve people of "modest means," credit unions in the six-cou...
Icy Garter is quick to point out her job is "one that takes a lot of prayer." Two yea...
While the Chicago Housing Authority will move more than 2,000 families this year as p...
At a March 9 luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, the Chicago Housing Author...
In early June 1999, Cook County Board President John H. Stager gave a speech about hi...
Reporter Alden K. Loury was promoted to Senior Editor on April 1. Loury joined the Re...
Since Hazel Crest Village President William A. Browne endorsed Roland Burris for gove...
On Jan. 22, residents of the Cabrini-Green public housing development chose a new pre...
The Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families has awarded a $2,000 study/trave...
In an unsuccessful 1994 primary campaign for governor, Roland W. Burris, who is Afric...
An Internet search engine called GoMammy.com, which has attracted nearly 30,000 visit...
On a recent Friday afternoon, downtown East Chicago, Ind., was desolate, save the hea...
Marisol Flores pulled out two Polaroid pictures. They showed a bloodshot left eye abo...
A crowd gathered around Dan Bigg on a recent Sunday afternoon as he sat in the back o...
Rather than sticking with his proposed $485 million budget cuts that "hit the hardest...
In November, the owners of Rienzi Plaza, an apartment building at 600 W. Diversey Par...
Editor's Note: This month, we begin to use this page for interviews, profiles and sho...
The Chicago Housing Authority has yet to provide job training and counseling to as ma...
Amused that anyone would be interested, 82-year-old Willie Lee Johnson rattled off wh...
Evanston and Oak Park have reputations as progressive communities where integration w...
Although the federal government recommends that cities plan their responses to terror...
Black congressional districts in the Chicago metropolitan area brought in an average ...
The Chicago Reporter has received $5,000 from the WPWR-TV Channel 50 Foundation, $5,0...
There are about 70,000 working mothers in Chicago with children under age 6, and more...
A child welfare law that pushes for parental rights to be quickly terminated so foste...
As the state's legislative remap was tied up in court, with no resolution in sight, C...
U.S. Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, a Democrat from Chicago's Northwest Side, is arrested al...
Cardinal George says he may support proposals to reform property taxes. They include ...
Hundreds of workers evacuate their Loop high-rises after terrorist attacks on New Yor...
May 19 Monsignor John "Jack" Egan, one of Chicago's most respected religious leaders,...
The Chicago Transit Authority board approves a $100.4 million plan to buy as many as ...
The Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of The Faith Community of St. Sabina, accuses the So...
A new Green Line elevated train station opens at 3630 W. Lake St. with promises to gi...
The Illinois Supreme Court rejects a petition by Tina Olison, the biological mother o...
In Maplewood Park on Chicago's Northwest Side, Reymundo Sanchez, who had recently sta...
Responding to a National Enquirer story, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. admits he had ...
The City of Chicago reaches an $18 million out-of-court settlement with the family of...
Cook County Criminal Court Judge Joseph Urso sentences Patrick Sykes to 120 years in ...
The Sun-Times reports that Chicago's homeless population is ballooning beyond the cit...
A class-action lawsuit field Nov. in U.S. District Court in Chicago alleges that an I...
Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds leaves federal prison after being pardoned by out-going...
Despite his criminal record and several court battles, Donald C. Luster, a black asso...
Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell writes that she was taunted with racial slurs after...
Cook County State's Attorney Richard A. Devine requests that Cook County Presiding Cr...
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are likely to embolden white nationalist groups to tur...
The Sun-Times reports that family members, friends or associates of Rev. Jackson have...
Fifteen mothers from the Southwest Side's Little Village neighborhood, which is predo...
Long known for batting racism, 3rd Ward Alderman Dorothy Tillman draws criticism in t...
The Illinois Native American Bar Association files a federal civil rights lawsuit aga...
Myths keep some black women from breastfeeding, putting their babies at risk, writes ...
What has race got to do with it? The Chicago Reporter has been asking that question s...
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Porter declares a hung jury in the first-degre...
After deliberating for 5 1/2 hours, the jury in Tolliver's retrial finds him guilty o...
Alderman Thomas W. Murphy, whose 18th Ward on the South Side is 85 percent black, ann...
Agreeing to pay nearly $2.2 million, the CHA settles a civil case with the family of ...
I got my first lesson on race in Chicago riding the train. Though some of my Northw...
The Cook County Board abandons a $212 million plan to build a new traffic court on th...
The Field Museum decides to return a 26-foot totem pole to descendants of its origina...
Mexican President Vicente Fox comes to Chicago. Fox discusses immigration and trade a...
The Illinois House declines to override Gov. Ryan's veto of legislation that would ma...
Both Clyde Moses and Paul Jones have used drugs for more than 20 years. At the height...
Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese, a Republican, wins re-election against her...
Jacqueline Jackson, Rev. Jackson's wife, is arrested for trespassing at the U.S. Navy...
The Chicago Board of Education decides to put $5 million aside for construction of a ...
Yolanda Campuzano, a 34-year-old Mexican American, becomes the first Latina to run fo...
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 tragedies, amid shock and grief, Americans rallied i...
Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass calls Rev. Jackson the "King of Beers." In 1995, ...
Southside Catholic Conference board members vote unanimously to accept St. Sabina Aca...
The Illinois Supreme Court rejects additional appeals by the owners of 27 businesses ...
The Highland Park Civil Service Commission votes 3-0 to support the decision of Polic...
Not since Richard J. Daley was ward committeeman in Bridgeport 50 years ago had the c...
Asian Americans of various ethnicities in the North Side's West Rogers Park neighborh...
Michael Scott, an African American and chairman of the Chicago Park District board fo...
Illinois Democrats win a lottery to take control of the Legislative Redistricting Com...
Declaring "This is a patriotic move," Gov. Ryan announces a plan to trim the state bu...
Federal health agencies fail to collect data on patients' race, ethnicity and languag...
As an American of Korean descent, Vickie Nam grew up feeling invisible and trying "to...
The Illinois Supreme Court recently struck down the state law that allowed a parent's...
Minorities do not receive city contracts in proportion to their population, writes Me...
* Thirty-one percent of Latinos in the Chicago-Gary-Kenosha metropolitan area had no ...
The Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings pushed the United Nations' World Conference against...
Several university presidents are vowing to fight a series of court rulings that foun...
Every time it rains, the staff at the Calumet Park Library on West 127th Street drag ...
Next spring, Tenesha Anderson will leave high school with two things she was not sure...
Laura S. Washington will step down as editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter at...
After failing to meet racial desegregation standards, the Chicago Board of Education ...
Bucking a national trend, Illinois was one of 11 states whose poverty rates rose from...
Native Americans are the nation's second-wealthiest minority, behind Asians, reports ...
The Fiesta Boricua crowd was a mix of white, brown and black faces on Sept. 2 in Humb...
On most nights, the flashing red lights of airplanes making their way to and from the...
They are the two freshmen Latina state representatives. Though not the first Latinas ...
Charles Willett Jr. has joined The Chicago Reporter as the publication's first full-t...
To the Editor: You are to be commended for addressing the serious problem of the in...
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision will make it more difficult to win discriminatio...
Barbara Ehrenreich checked into a hotel in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota, paying ...
Black women are more likely than other women to be arrested and charged on prostituti...
The federal government's refusal to grant waivers to states so they can provide famil...
Burns and injuries from getting hit by cars are the two most common causes of uninten...
Allowing a mountaintop in Pocatello, Idaho, to continue to be dubbed "Chinks Peak" re...
At 48, Lonnie G. Bunch is making history. As the new president of the Chicago Histo...
* Fumio Toyoda, 53, the man who popularized Aikido nationwide, died July 4. Toyoda fo...
It was an incendiary combination. On one side, white supporters of slain Chicago Poli...
Managing Editor Alysia Tate has been promoted to the newly created position of senior...
The approximately 3,000 Chicago children who are sexually abused each year will now g...
The July issue of VIBE magazine introduces readers to "homo thugs"--young black and L...
Asian American teenagers who transform cars imported from Asia into low-riding hot ro...
Nonprofits will bow out of state contracts unless they can get more funding, writes D...
Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist who "wanted to deny Blacks equal rights becau...
* About 500 South Side residents and community leaders, who say they are fed up with ...
When a jury begins its deliberations, it relies on the testimony and the exhibits. Bu...
* Most black police officers believe their colleagues treat whites better than Africa...
Sam W. Shipp wasn't there. But he was apparently on the minds of attorneys when the j...
* An estimated 200 black newspapers nationwide enjoy a combined weekly circulation of...
Timothy McVeigh's brief stay of execution in May underscores the potential for error ...
Felony convictions have substantially reduced the pool of the nation's African Americ...
William Yashino, Midwest director of the Japanese American Citizens League, chastises...
News reports that the census suggests a decline in America's white population are a "...
* Nationwide, 22 percent of children living with a relative who is not a parent face ...
Sports mascots that mimic Native Americans rely on cultural fragments that trivialize...
* On May 16, StyleMaster Inc., one of 82 African American-owned manufacturers in illi...
Frederick Lucas was a 15-year-old eighth grader when he dropped out of school a year-...
* MaidAids, LLC, of Olney, Md., has announced a new product: adhesive-backed notes th...
Wearing a samurai-style headband, Jose Luis Alejandre arranged pieces of pearl-colore...
* Edna White Summers, a community activist and lifelong Evanston resident, died of he...
Susan J. Schultz has joined The Chicago Reporter staff as consulting editor. Schultz ...
The University of Illinois at Chicago's expansion is slowly squeezing St. Francis of ...
Keevin Irons' turning point came after his seventh arrest. For 20 years, the 41-year-...
The subject of the race of demonstrators who protested a police shooting in Cincinnat...
To the Editor: I was terribly disappointed when I read the quote you attributed to ...
* Many low-income families with children will not benefit from new federal tax cuts, ...
On April 27 The Chicago Reporter won two Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalis...
The grass roots campaign to close down liquor establishments in Chicago's 9th Ward en...
In other news, three foundations renewed their support to the Reporter. The Joyce Fou...
* A study released in March by Child Trends, a Washington D.C.-based, nonprofit resea...
The Page 3 photo in the April 2001 issue should have been credited to photographer Ma...
* When the Seattle-based Boeing Co. announced in March it would relocate, Chicago May...
* The city is proposing to raze the Mega Mall at 7212 N. Clark St. and build a new fi...
The poorest and toughest-to-help Americans have been abandoned "in favor of the less ...
Single African American females headed 60 percent of the black households with childr...
George W. Bush's administration may offer African Americans their best hope in 35 yea...
More people in this country can identify with the Cleveland Indians' mascot--Chief Wa...
Even though she worked hard and earned top grades in almost all her classes, Wendy Pu...
The racial violence that erupted in Cincinnati in April will not be an anomaly, write...
In 1997, the Chicago Housing Authority moved Twanna Johnson and her four children out...
Since November's presidential election fiasco, Illinois officials and advocacy groups...
For 10 days, Sam W. Shipp held steadfastly to his belief that Jonathan Tolliver was n...