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Hundreds of South Side residents and leaders once again marched from Bronzeville to Washington Park Thursday night as part of an annual action to demand justice for Chicago’s missing and

Four of the major category winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize represent small nonprofit newsrooms, including "Missing in Chicago" by Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway, "Beneath the Surface" by the Invisible Institute and City Bureau, "American Icon" by The Washington Post and the catastrophic flooding and mudslide breaking news coverage by Lookout Santa Cruz. These investigations and reporting efforts have shed light on missing Black women and girls, the impact ...

Why are three times as many Black women in Southern Illinois more likely to experience a pregnancy-related death than White or Hispanic women?

The two Chicago-based journalism nonprofit newsrooms garnered the Local Reporting award on Monday for the “Missing in Chicago” series. Invisible Institute also won a second Pulitzer for audio reporting.

Missing Black Children Deserve Justice Too

Black children make up nearly sixty percent of missing person cases in Chicago, but police data make them hard to analyze.

From elections and new constructions to a labor and tenant organizing wave, a lot went down in Hyde Park this year. Herald staff tried to capture some of it.

October 12, 2023 The State of Our Educator Pipeline 2023 – moderated by Shayne Evans – State Rep. Carol Ammons, Briana Morales and Dr. Kimako Patterson City Club event description: Amid a growing public awareness of challenges staffing schools and a landscape altered by the COVID-19 pandemic, Advance Illinois seeks to put data at the […]

State Sen. Mattie Hunter (D-3rd) and state Rep. Kam Buckner (D-26th) have been named the chair and vice chair, respectively, of the Illinois Task Force on Missing and Murdered Women.

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