As A Guerrilla Movement, Tiny Homes May Emerge As Alternative To Shelters
Tiny homes, which can be as little as 50 to 300 square feet, are growing in popularity as a solution for the homeless. In Chicago, advocates want to build tiny houses to serve a specific marginalized...
View ArticleAttorney General Loretta Lynch Meets With Victims, Police In Orlando
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View ArticleAbner Mikva, Former Illinois Congressman And Obama Mentor, Dies
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View ArticleAs Country Reels From Violent Week, Clergies Offer Messages Of Healing
In churches across the country, pastors, priests and other religious leaders will talk to a nation still reeling from this past week's fatal shootings of two black men by police officers and the death...
View ArticleMore And More Children Fall Victim As Street Shootings Spike In Chicago
Tacarra Morgan lives in a big two-story, A-frame house that sits next to an empty, grassy corner lot on Chicago's South Side. On a sunny afternoon earlier in July, gunfire broke out while the...
View ArticleUnrest And Protest In Milwaukee After Police Shooting
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View Article50 Years Ago, Martin Luther King Jr. Fought For Open Housing In Chicago
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View ArticleFamily Heirloom, National Treasure: Rare Photos Show Black Civil War Soldiers
Each of the photos in Capt. William A. Prickitt's album could fit in a locket: headshots of 17 black soldiers who served under the Union Army officer during the Civil War, most of their names...
View ArticleChicago City Council Approves Oversight Agency To Police The Police
In an effort to heal the fractured relationship between the Chicago Police Department and city residents, the city council voted to approve a new police oversight agency, but some critics say the new...
View Article101-Year-Old Chicago Cubs Fan Hopes Beloved Team Grants Her Birthday Wish
It will be a night of tension and hope for baseball fans in Chicago when the Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers play Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday. If the Cubs win, they will...
View ArticleDemonstrations Continue At The Dakota Access Pipeline
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Demonstrators have been out in force all across the country today protesting the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The federal...
View ArticleFrom Immigration To Infrastructure, Big-City Mayors Draw Up Wish List For Trump
With Donald Trump's choices for secretaries of transportation and of housing and urban development — Elaine Chao and Dr. Ben Carson, respectively — there may be hints about the urban agenda Trump's...
View ArticleIn 2016, Violence Pervaded Policing On Both Ends Of The Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBZPCDqymyo Deadly encounters between police and civilians often made 2016 a year full of palpable tension. Across the country, demonstrators took to the streets to...
View ArticleGun Deaths In Chicago: Why Is This Happening?
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We are spending the hour on an issue that we believe concerns Americans from across the political spectrum. We're talking about violence,...
View ArticleBefore Farewell Speech, Chicagoans Reflect On President Obama's Legacy
President Obama's adopted hometown of Chicago is often the stage for pivotal moments in his career. He claimed victory in Chicago in 2008 and again in 2012. And it's where he will give his farewell...
View ArticleDOJ Report On Chicago Police Finds 'Pattern Of Excessive Force'
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: It's a little more than a year since the city of Chicago released video showing a white police officer shooting a black teenager, Laquan...
View ArticleTrump Supporters Cheer Quick Starts On Campaign Promises In His First Weeks
Algonquin, Ill., is a Republican stronghold. The growing town of 28,000 is about an hour's drive northwest of Chicago in McHenry County, the only one of six in the metro area to vote for President...
View ArticleSouthern Poverty Law Center Records Rise In U.S. Hate Groups
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The number of anti-Muslim hate groups nearly tripled last year. That's just one of the dramatic statistics in a new report by the Southern...
View ArticleTreat Gun Violence Like A Public Health Crisis, One Program Says
As gun violence continues to plague some of Chicago's neighborhoods, a violence prevention program is looking to tackle the issue by treating it like a public health crisis. Chicago's murder rate is...
View ArticleIts Survival In Doubt, Sears Struggles To Transform Once Again
A century ago, it was one of the biggest names in retail. Now, even Sears officials say its future could be in doubt — though they say they have plans to make sure the retail icon survives. Nancy Koehn...
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