Nausheen Husain

People gather in protest in front of the MAT Asphalt plant on May 15, 2021.

Many industries call the Southwest Side home. McKinley Park — where a controversial asphalt plant built four years ago has sparked complaints about noxious odors — is pushing back.

May 28, 2021 at 10:50 p.m.

Some mornings, the smell seeping inside Jackie Montesdeoca's home is so bad it wakes her up. She calls 311 or the Department of Public Health or the 12th Ward office....

<p>The census acts as a basis for annual federal surveys, like the <a href="http://www.kleinhenzassociates.com/tag/census-bureau/">American Community Survey</a> or the Current Population Survey, which are also used to help allocate federal, state, and local government funds. The Population Estimates Program combines data from the decennial U.S. census with birth, death, and migration rates to provide more accurate and timely population and housing estimates. These estimates are then used as the foundation for these additional surveys, which help ensure the basic needs of all Americans are met year after year.</p>

User’s guide to the 2020 census: What’s done, what’s next and what it means to you

May 20, 2021 at 4:19 p.m.

A new phase of census data releases started last month as the U.S. Census Bureau completed its process of counting the population of the country. The bureau released state-by-state population...

Firoz Vohra at his warehouse, Best Value Distributors, in Chicago, on March 18, 2021.

Symbolic City Council resolution addressing tensions in India voted down, after months of negotiation and pushback

April 8, 2021 at 9:25 p.m.

A proposed resolution expressing the City Council's solidarity with Chicago's South Asian community "regardless of religion and caste" failed Wednesday amid intense lobbying from local Indian organizations and the country's...

Portrait of Julie Anderson, mother of Eric Anderson, at her home in Willow Springs on Feb. 4, 2021.

Despite federal and state guidance to reduce jail populations, few inmates convicted of nonviolent crimes have been released early

February 15, 2021 at 9:14 p.m.

For months, Jeffrey Norrell has been trying to get his dad out of an Illinois prison that has had at least two COVID-19 outbreaks since July. Norrell's dad, an inmate...

Illinois’ new COVID-19 plan: How the state will manage any outbreaks, in 3 charts

August 7, 2020 at 10:19 p.m.

Amid an uptick of COVID-19 cases over the past month, Gov. J.B. Pritzker laid out a new approach to managing any resurgence across the state. The new approach is more...

A sign at the entrance of the Marion federal prison at Marion in southern Illinois on Aug. 28, 2019.

2 dead at Marion federal prison during COVID-19 surge despite restrictive conditions, say inmates and family members

August 7, 2020 at 9:26 p.m.

A second coronavirus-related death following a weekend surge of positive COVID-19 cases at the Marion federal prison has inmates with medical conditions worried about their health in a prison that...

This Home Owners' Loan Corporation map and document from 1940 describes Maywood and its Black population in this way: "The area is of mixed and rather poor appearance and unlikely to improve very much due to the age and low grade population, of which considerable portion are negroes. This is fourth grade because of poor prospects and undesirable population." Explore the maps with <a href="https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=11/41.947/-87.793&city=chicago-il&adview=full&text=about&adimage=4/62.553/-139.263" target="_blank">with this tool build by Mapping Inequality</a>.

Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods is rooted in policy. Here’s how these communities continue to be held back.

April 22, 2024 at 11:34 a.m.

It's an oft-quoted statistic: White families have significantly more wealth than nonwhite families in America — nearly 10 times that of Black families. The racial wealth gap continues to greatly...

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