Latonya Maley creates a striking figure as she strides through the halls of the Broadway Youth Center. In a tea-length...
Posted March 28, 2017
Topic: Violence
No vacancy?
For five months, Henry Castillo called the Preston Bradley Center home. The shelter in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood housed the homeless...
Posted March 28, 2017
Letter from the editors
How do people live their lives each day surrounded by violence? How is it fair that city violence is breaking...
Posted March 27, 2017
Stop and think
Sunlight flowed through the windows of a fall-decorated classroom as Dion McGill entered. Excitement could be seen on each of...
Posted March 27, 2017
Slam!
From a young age, Ireon Roach knew she wanted to slam poetry. As a second grader, she was stringing together...
Posted March 27, 2017
No detention, only stability
The house is getting noisier on a Monday afternoon. The kids have come home hungry from school. Snacks are handed...
Posted March 27, 2017
Bright minds, dark paths
On a breezy fall morning in Chicago, Destiny Rogers marched down the unevenly-paved Chicago streets to the Wilson CTA Red...
Posted March 27, 2017
“It takes one bad police officer to make 13,000 officers look bad.”
Chicago Police Officer Gerardo Garcia was sitting in his patrol car in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Englewood when he...
Posted March 27, 2017
Broken glass
As a young teen, Duan Gaines and his sisters would throw rocks at spare windows that were stored in their...
Posted March 27, 2017
Mental gymnastics
When Dr. Venna Ramaiah gets home from a late night emergency room shift, she often only has a few hours...
Posted March 19, 2017
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