Michael Pfleger

How do we respond to this dawning age of empire through a commitment to creation? We can start in our innermost circle, and radiate outward.

We were gratified to see a Chicago mayor introduce a 2025 budget investment of more than $100 million in community safety.

The time has arrived for Chicago to pass an ordinance to establish an Office of Gun Violence Reduction.

Throughout Chicago, the people are raising their voices about a host of issues. We fear those voices are going unheard.

Torrence "Pipe" Jordan and Yolanda Fields are representative of the promise that community violence intervention brings to our city.

There is reason for hope that this fall in Chicago, a public health approach to reducing gun violence will finally receive serious attention.

The Chicago Sky are the best team in the city right now, but WNBA players face a salary and health gap in professional basketball.

The mayor has committed new funding to violence intervention, but many of our partners say they haven't seen a single penny of new funding.

Chicago has no structure ensuring that any given mayor see through his or her own gun violence strategy to its conclusion.

Eileen O’Neill Burke needs to give specifics on how her office will resist the age-old structures that target and harm minority communities.