Corporate Media Mock Chicago Teachers for Trying to Help Their Community
Billionaire-owned media outlets have framed teachers’ advocacy for their students and communities as self-serving.
ICE Raided My Son’s Daycare to Abduct a Teacher. This Kind of Trauma Lasts.
By Tara Goodarzi, Truthout Children at my son’s Spanish immersion preschool in Chicago bore witness to a teacher being violently assaulted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who entered…
Human Rights Watch: Federal Agents Use Excessive Force in Illinois
Protesters, Journalists, Medics Targeted Outside Immigration Detention Facility.
‘Trump’s Invasion’: Illinois Officials Denounce Troop Deployment to Chicago as ICE Escalates Raids
For weeks, federal agents with ICE and other agencies have carried out violent immigration arrests across Chicago, including in a high-profile raid on a residential building in which many U.S.…
Chicago Hospital’s Closure Is a Canary in the Coal Mine for Corporatized Health Care
The August shuttering of Weiss Memorial Hospital is just the latest casualty of private equity-backed hospital closures.
Chicago Police Department Perpetuates Its Violence by Punishing Whistleblowers
Police violence is not about “good apples” and “bad apples” — it is structural.
Young Men in Violent Parts of Philadelphia, Chicago Die From Guns at a Higher Rate Than US Troops in the Heat of Battle
By Alex Knorre / The Conversation Mass shootings tend to dominate the debate over gun violence – but they accounted for just 3% of all firearm homicides in the United…
Women-Led Groups in Chicago Spearhead Response to Migrant Influx
As the migrant influx continues, their efforts shine a light on the need for collective action and federal response.
Illinois Will Be the First State to Eliminate Cash Bail. Here’s Why Women Led the Push for Reform.
Grassroots and advocacy groups helped push for the state’s elimination of cash bail – a move that will help incarcerated people and family members who must often come up with…
Secrets of an AT&T Scandal
By David Rosen / CounterPunch On October 14th, AT&T’s Illinois subsidiary agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a federal criminal investigation into alleged misconduct involving the company’s…
John Kiriakou: Hold the Fireworks
From the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade to the persecution of whistleblowers, this July 4th exploded with reasons not to celebrate.
Why Lindsey Graham Is Trying to Rescue Rahm Emanuel
Disgraced Democrat seeks support from GOP to outflank progressive opposition