Welcome to Northwestern University at Stateville
Inside this maximum security prison, a groundbreaking program offers inmates the chance to earn a degree from one of the country’s top schools. Some will never leave these walls. Here’s...
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Jonathan Eig
The King Chronicler
What Happened to Timmothy Pitzen?
A decade ago, his mother took him out of school for a three-day spree. Afterward, she killed herself. And the boy disappeared.
Burial Rights
Mount Hope Cemetery has served the South Side for over a century. Now, amid a devastating COVID-19 surge and a racially charged clash over funeral processions, it’s become a lightning...
When COVID Came to Cook County Jail
At the peak of the pandemic, the crowded city within a city became a top hot spot. Facing cases on a mass scale, officials and doctors had to leap into...
Evanston’s Road to Reparations
Compensating African Americans for the wrongs of history has been a political nonstarter for decades. Then, last November, one Chicago suburb made it a reality.
The Man Who’s Taking on Boeing
The families of the 157 people who died in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 are consumed by grief. Attorney Bob Clifford wants to make the aviation giant pay...
Stuck on the South Side
Bashir Salahuddin may have left Chicago for Hollywood, but he’s found success by tapping the humor of his old neighborhood.
The Double Triple
A triple transplant — heart, liver, kidney — is an incredibly rare procedure. Up until recently, only 15 had ever been performed. Then, over a 48-hour stretch, UChicago Medicine did...
The Ghosts of Flight 191
Judith and Sheldon Wax were local literary figures — she an author, he a top editor at Playboy. Forty years ago this month, they and 269 other people boarded a plane to...