Mary Pattillo

Students from the Northwestern Prison Education Program applaud Northwestern University faculty at the commencement for the program's first graduating class at Stateville Correctional Center on Nov. 15, 2023, near Joliet.

Mary Pattillo: My students in prison have complex pasts but are now creating new stories

November 27, 2023 at 5:52 p.m.

In mid-November, 16 men were the first incarcerated students to graduate with a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University. As an educator in the program, I have learned that their stories...

A boy walks on South King Drive in Washington Park, near one of the proposed sites for the Obama library.

Plenty good room for Obama library — just not in Washington Park

May 25, 2019 at 6:03 p.m.

In the coming weeks, the Chicago City Council and the Chicago Park District will vote on using roughly 20 acres of South Side parkland for the proposed Obama presidential library....

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August 21, 2021 at 9:01 p.m.

'No more blacks." That was the forecast of a resident of the Oakland community when asked about the future of her South Side neighborhood. "No more blacks?" I responded, worried...

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