Writing

Investigations

Calls Show CPD Knew Federal Immigration Agents Were Asking for HelpSouth Side Weekly

Missed Shots: A multipart investigation of ShotSpotterSouth Side Weekly

NASCAR cost Chicago millions in road work and overtimeSouth Side Weekly

Chicago police pistol-whipped suspect in brutal 2017 arrestChicago Reader

New body-cam images show CPD attack on Miracle Boyd Chicago Reader & South Side Weekly

Surveilling Dissent: Police used Chicago’s gun-violence prevention center to monitor protests South Side Weekly

Internal CPD audits show half of officers have complaintsSouth Side Weekly

Public Safety

Jobs. Block Clubs. Investment: How Chicagoans Are Interrupting Violence at its RootsIllinois Answers Project

Finalists announced for public safety commissionSouth Side Weekly

Johnson stops ShotSpotterSouth Side Weekly

Police brutality survivors and former cops are running for Chicago’s Police District CouncilsChicago Reader

Fifty years of struggle: Frank Chapman on the movement for community control of policeChicago Reader

Where gun stores open, gun homicides increaseScientific American

In Chicago, controversy mounts over the use of gunshot detection sensorsThe Trace

Politics

Mayor Johnson at the Midterm MarkSouth Side Weekly

Mayor Brandon Johnson on his organizing roots and vision for ChicagoSouth Side Weekly

Landlords warn tenants: Don’t vote for Bring Chicago HomeSouth Side Weekly

‘Fox and Friends’ staged Naperville interview criticizing Mayor Brandon JohnsonThe TRiiBE

ECPS coalition wins a wide majority of Chicago’s new Police District Council seatsThe TRiiBE

Paul Vallas’s trail of school privatizationThe TRiiBE & Slate

CTU president Stacy Davis Gates on elected school board and more South Side Weekly & In These Times

The youth are on fireChicago Reader