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- Music, The Listener Jan 25, 2021
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Chicago rapper Monster Mike takes on the porpoise police
His new video, by local crew New Trash, may be your only chance to see a cetacean fight a katana duel.
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 21, 2020
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A year like no other
On the violence, sadness, and hope of 2020
- News & Politics, News Oct 2, 2020
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‘We just want to go home’
CPD’s violent response to a student-led protest downtown and what it says about this moment in our history
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 30, 2020
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Most of the people arrested at the protests were Black
An analysis of 2,172 detainments raises questions about CPD claims of equitable policing practices.
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 23, 2020
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Cops appear to violate use-of-force rules dozens of times at protests
An investigation into the use of batons raises questions about the police department’s road to reform.
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 18, 2020
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Inside the 19-hour occupation of the University of Chicago Police headquarters
"I’m fighting for my future, I’m fighting for my safety, I’m fighting for the people who come after me."
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 5, 2020
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The front lines of police brutality
Photos from a protest where cops shot pepper spray into a kettled crowd.
- News & Politics, Feature Feb 20, 2020
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Heroes, terrorists, and the police
The lack of congressional oversight on ITTA—a small police training company founded in Chicago that has trained more than 600 officers in El Salvador—is even more problematic given the behavior of some of the U.S. officers running the program.
- City Life, Sightseeing Oct 10, 2019
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Field notes from the war on sex
A century ago, the Committee of Fifteen hunted for “houses of ill-fame.”
- News & Politics, Feature Sep 12, 2019
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‘We Are Witnesses: Chicago’
In 15 direct-to-camera testimonies, this Marshall Project video series gives voice to Chicagoans affected by the justice system.
- News & Politics, Feature Sep 12, 2019
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‘I’m the bad guy now’: A retired cop on outing police misconduct
Bill Dorsch loved being a Chicago cop, then he witnessed misconduct by disgraced detective Reynaldo Guevara.
- News & Politics, Feature Sep 12, 2019
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Rewriting the narrative
- City Life, Sightseeing Jun 12, 2019
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Think you know your Chicago underworld slang?
A quiz on some of the less obvious entries in a 1967 police-training dictionary
- Columns & Opinion, Opinion Apr 26, 2019
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How #NoCopAcademy shook the machine
The coalition lost the vote but changed the narrative on police spending.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 26, 2018
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Archive dive: how grassroots groups around Chicago put police abolitionist ideas into practice
Jessica Disu didn’t always consider herself a police abolitionist, but an appearance on Fox News in 2016 made her the face of the movement. In a Reader article that same year she said, “our police is not working—we need to replace it with something new.”
- News & Politics, Feature Nov 2, 2018
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A Visual Voter’s Guide
These images from Chicago protests over the last two years will spur you toward the ballot box.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 18, 2018
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Shepsu Aakhu’s words transcend a prosaic staging of Black and Blue
Two African-American cops deal with life on the force in the aftermath of the Laquan McDonald video.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 2, 2018
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Caught between black and blue
Was the police shooting of Harith Augustus justified? Is Blue Lives Matter for white cops only? Three black Chicago-area officers talk about what things look like from where they stand.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2018
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Urgh! A Music War and other punk and postpunk new wave cinema
Five films that captured the vibrant, changing pop-music scene of the 1980s.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2018
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Public outcry kills proposed FOIA law tweak that would’ve hidden police misconduct records
"If Laquan McDonald hadn't been killed and they'd elected to charge him with a crime, we would still be waiting to see that video."
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 19, 2018
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Is Illinois ready for a potential influx of stoned drivers?
Weed Week: There is no completely reliable test for marijuana intoxication, and very few cops trained to recognize it.
- Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2017
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Terrorist to some, hero to others, Oscar López Rivera will be honored in Chicago this week
The Puerto Rican nationalist comes home to Humboldt Park after 35 years in federal prison.
- News & Politics, Feature Feb 1, 2017
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Police in Chicago Public Schools operate with no special training and little oversight
The Chicago Police Department instructs its officers to treat working in schools like any other beat—but is it?
- Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 28, 2016
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By helping young black fathers, Sheldon Smith has become a ‘hero’
The founder of the Bronzeville-based Dovetail Project is honored by CNN Heroes.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2016
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Angered by homicides, activists leave coffins at Rahm Emanuel’s home
“Behind each of these deaths is a failure,” activists said.
