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Santita Jackson, above, hugs Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx as supporters pray for Foxx before a news conference at Rainbow/PUSH Coalition headquarters on April 6, 2019.

The Rev. Otis Moss III: FOP’s selective outrage targeting Kim Foxx must end

May 31, 2019 at 4:27 p.m.

Once again the paradoxical nature of Chicago becomes a national conversation on race, policy, political vision and community trust — this time, in the form of manufactured or selective outrage,...

Detainees make phone calls during lunch break in the SAVE program in Division 2 in the Cook County Jail Monday, Oct. 3, 2016

Ending the cash-bail system is a promising step

May 11, 2019 at 4:06 a.m.

It brings great pain to our hearts to live in a county that spends $330 million per year to jail mostly poor African-American residents. Last year, Cook County held approximately...

A community of men show up for the beginning of heavy lifting

June 2, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

As Chicago hit its 500th homicide recently, a beautiful act of love and resistance spread light on the South Side. Almost 300 men, most from Trinity United Church of Christ...

United Power for Action and Justice, a nonpartisan community organization, proposes four pragmatic and affordable changes that can improve the lives of every Chicagoan.

4 big ideas to improve Chicago

June 26, 2024 at 1:27 p.m.

The mayoral election is April 7. Then comes the next race: to save our city from its persistent and troubling decline. Chicagoans have been voting with their feet — leaving...

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