A defining moment is at hand for the administration of Mayor Brandon Johnson. Having campaigned as a strong advocate for reimagining public safety, the mayor now confronts a test of...
Among the final acts of Mayor Lori Lightfoot's administration was the denial of a mother's request for information in the city's possession about the circumstances of her son's death. A...
Freedom of speech is forever embattled. That is its nature. Easy to assent to in the abstract, the principle becomes more challenging when the speech at issue assails one's most...
When he was 16, Charles Green stood before a judge who found him guilty of participating in a gruesome 1985 quadruple murder and sentenced him to life in prison without...
Next month, seven years will have passed since the video of the police murder of Laquan McDonald was released, precipitating a cascade of events that transformed the civic life of...