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Local News Day: Looking Back at 150 Years of Chicago Photography
In honor of Local News Day, TCR is turning its lens toward the city’s past and present, exploring Chicago’s complex and often fraught history through photography. From entrenched segregation to powerful movements for advocacy, leadership, and justice, this project reflects on the forces that have shaped the city, and the people who continue to redefine it. As…
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Judicial election results: Three appointed judges rejected by voters in Cook County judicial primaries
This story was produced by Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom in Chicago that investigates issues of equity and justice in the Cook County court system. Sign up here to get their weekly newsletter. Illinois Democratic Party leader Michael Cabonargi will lose his recent appointment as a Cook County judge despite raising more than $150,000 in campaign funds…
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Student Voices: DJ beats rooted in African-American history
On a Wednesday in late February the sound of four-on-the-floor beats and hypnotic basslines wafted through the halls of learning. This siren song led back to room 2024, where a DJ was mixing, looping and scratching bouncing tracks in the middle of a school day. A DJ was nestled in the right corner, with headphones…
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Employment and labor
IDOC’s controversial health care provider is out. Will people in IDOC finally receive the care they need?
After decades of protest from activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) health care system. A June 23rd memo announced that the IDOC is abandoning contract negotiations with Wexford Health Sources, who had won a ten year, $4 billion dollar contract renewal at the end of 2023. Now as IDOC initiates…
Economic Development
Six years in, has Illinois’ cannabis equity law delivered?
Illinois legalized cannabis with equity at its core in 2020. Six years later, the results are mixed. After nearly 90 years of prohibition, Illinois became the first state to legalize the sale of cannabis through a state legislature in 2019. Touted by the governor’s office as the “most equity-centric” cannabis law in the nation, the…