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Passersby look over damage at the Jonathan Adler store on Aug.10, 2020.

‘I’ve never had to think about my own safety in this way before’: Shaken by summer looting in affluent neighborhoods, some Chicagoans are moving away.

August 27, 2020 at 1:04 p.m.

They understand why protesters and rioters have poured onto the streets of downtown, and some acknowledge that crime is worse in other parts of Chicago. Some also agree with protesters...

The Love Fridge in the alley behind 57th Street Books in Chicago is a refrigerator from which people can take free food or donate food for others.

Community refrigerators throughout Chicago offer free, healthy food

August 25, 2020 at 10:21 a.m.

The Love Fridge is a community refrigerator collective working to provide Chicago's neighborhoods with free healthy foods through refrigerated items and pantry goods. The collective, which started about two months...

Patrick Lee, right, goes fishing with his son, Lucas, at Henry C. Palmisano Nature Park in Chicago on July 31, 2020.

‘I’m mom slash playmate’: Parents of only children are making it through the pandemic with creativity and endurance

August 26, 2020 at 1:53 p.m.

When Elle Davis unboxed an egg chair for her back porch, she didn't know her 8-year-old daughter, Simone, would find another use for the huge box. Immediately after the cardboard...

Officers stand near crime scene tape after an argument erupted between police and residents at the scene of a police-involved shooting in the Englewood neighborhood on Aug. 9, 2020, in Chicago.

Media coverage left some Black South Siders feeling misrepresented — again — after Englewood police shooting, underscoring yearslong feelings of distrust

August 14, 2020 at 6:06 p.m.

Black Chicagoans have regularly felt hurt, anger and frustration by the way the news media covers their community. The reports and images that accompanied headlines Monday morning after a night...

A Planned Parenthood facility is seen in Flossmoor. Planned Parenthood of Illinois is offering a free virtual sex education series to teach adults how to discuss sex concepts with the youth in their lives.

Remote learning returns this fall, and parents should gear up for teaching sex ed

August 7, 2020 at 1:45 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools will start remote learning in the fall, but that doesn't mean sex education — one of the most vital, and often awkward, classes of your child's youth...

A Chicago Teachers Union member rides a bike as he and several cars drive past City Hall.

Lightfoot ‘does not have the guts to close schools,’ Chicago Teachers Union claims as it protests plan for in-person classes in CPS this fall

August 4, 2020 at 8:45 a.m.

With Chicago Public Schools parents facing a deadline days away to opt in or out of in-person classes this fall, parents and teachers in Chicago and across the country are...

Commentary: Breonna Taylor will be on the cover of O magazine in September. For the first time in 20 years, Oprah won’t. Here’s why.

August 2, 2020 at 1:14 p.m.

For the first time in 20 years, O, the Oprah Magazine is not featuring Oprah Winfrey on the cover. Instead, it's an image of Breonna Taylor, the young Black woman...

Traveling during a pandemic can cause conflict between divorced parents. There is no one right answer for every situation.

Travel plans while co-parenting during COVID-19 pandemic can present challenges. A divorce attorney offers tips.

July 29, 2020 at 2:30 p.m.

Since the pandemic hit Chicago in March, Nicole W. and her 5-year-old daughter have been cooped up in their South Side high rise. She says it's because she's been extremely...

This Home Owners' Loan Corporation map and document from 1940 describes Maywood and its Black population in this way: "The area is of mixed and rather poor appearance and unlikely to improve very much due to the age and low grade population, of which considerable portion are negroes. This is fourth grade because of poor prospects and undesirable population." Explore the maps with <a href="https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=11/41.947/-87.793&city=chicago-il&adview=full&text=about&adimage=4/62.553/-139.263" target="_blank">with this tool build by Mapping Inequality</a>.

Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods is rooted in policy. Here’s how these communities continue to be held back.

April 22, 2024 at 11:34 a.m.

It's an oft-quoted statistic: White families have significantly more wealth than nonwhite families in America — nearly 10 times that of Black families. The racial wealth gap continues to greatly...

Francesca and Angelo Valentine, left, parents of Marqus Valentine, with their children Kevin and Ashley, grandson Kaleb, 13, and dogs Trinity and Chewy stand outside their Lisle home on July 17, 2020.

Sickle cell advocate unexpectedly dies. Family to hold blood drive in his honor. ‘We have a lot of work to do for his legacy.’

July 22, 2020 at 3:53 p.m.

There are lots of smiles when you look back on photos of Marqus Valentine, from when he was a baby to when he was an adult, said his mother, Francesca...

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