- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 13, 2013
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Why trying to make separate equal is a failing strategy for Chicago's schools
Separate but equal "has no place in the field of public education."
- News & Features, Feature, Jun 13, 2013
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Trying to make separate equal
Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide quality education in poor, racially isolated schools. That hasn’t worked either.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 28, 2013
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Man charged in Jonylah slaying; shooting no longer "gang-related"
How many other "gang-related" shootings really aren't?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 9, 2013
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Is segregation really bad for everyone?
A new study suggests that segregation harms all of us. If that were true we might be more committed to fighting it.
- News & Features, Feature, May 8, 2013
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Addicted to guns
Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
- Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, Apr 3, 2013
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A history of gang violence: The Almighty Black P Stone Nation
A conversation about the five-decade evolution of a Chicago street gang
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 20, 2013
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Was Jonylah Watkins the victim of segregation-related violence?
Gangs aren't the only problem in Woodlawn.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 8, 2013
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The deeper issue for Chicago schools
CPS doesn't have too few kids, but too many kids who are poor.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 14, 2013
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The speech Obama should give in Chicago
Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 14, 2013
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Anatomy of a heroin ring
Dana Bostic's gang-affiliated west-side drug organization employed dozens of residents, served thousands of customers, established ties with Mexican drug cartels, and relied on violence to stay in business.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 7, 2013
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Murder and segregation: till death do they part
"We have to help Chicago," education secretary Arne Duncan says.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 10, 2013
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A greener Chicago would be a safer Chicago
Urban farming and better care of vacant lots could reduce crime and improve life in poorer areas
- News & Features, Politics, Nov 7, 2012
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He's got this
Reports from across Chicago as the votes for President Obama came rolling in
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 6, 2012
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The Reader did election night
Check out the Reader's coverage of Chicago, from Second City to a homeless shelter to President Obama's election party, as it happened.
- News & Features, Politics, Oct 25, 2012
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Still hoping for change
Four years later, five Chicagoans reflect on the president they helped elect
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 23, 2012
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South-side residents fend off pawnshop plan
In the face of community opposition, plans are withdrawn for a pawnshop at 79th and Western
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 4, 2012
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The people v. the pawnshop
How one vacant lot became a battleground between the politically powerful pawnshop industry and the outspoken residents of a middle-class Chicago neighborhood—and what that says about the future of development in the city
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 12, 2012
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Good news: poverty not worse
The U.S. poverty rate remains high, but it didn't rise in 2011
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 12, 2012
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Loss in The Crowd
Questioning the moral foundation of King Vidor's silent classic
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 11, 2012
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Census stats likely to show highest poverty rate since 1965
When will the presidential candidates notice?
