Public Health & Safety

Jobs. Block clubs. Investment: How Chicagoans are interrupting violence at its roots — Illinois Answers Project & South Side Weekly

Missed Shots: A multipart investigation of ShotSpotter — with reporters from South Side Weekly, The Appeal & Type Investigations

Top cop nominee Larry Snelling Grilled at Public Forum — Block Club Chicago

In Chicago, controversy mounts over the use of gunshot detection sensors — The Trace

Where gun stores open, gun homicides increase — Scientific American

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

Killings by police declined after Black Lives Matter protests — Scientific American

Investigations

Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago, even after judge said to stop — with reporters from Block Club Chicago, Cicero Independiente, the Investigative Project on Race and Equity, Invisible Institute & South Side Weekly

911 calls show South Shore residents’ panic during ICE raid — South Side Weekly

Calls show CPD knew federal immigration agents were asking for help — South Side Weekly

NASCAR cost Chicago millions in road work and overtime — South Side Weekly

New bodycam images show CPD attack on Miracle Boyd — Chicago Reader & South Side Weekly

Internal CPD audits show half of officers have complaints — South Side Weekly

The high price of the city’s shows of force — South Side Weekly

Vaccinations sharply declined nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic — Scientific American

Politics

Mayor Johnson at the midterm mark — South Side Weekly

14th Police District Council grapples with fierce divisions — South Side Weekly

The Chicago Teachers Union won big. What comes next? — South Side Weekly

ECPS coalition wins a wide majority of Chicago’s new Police District Council seats — The TRiiBE

Paul Vallas’s trail of school privatization — The TRiiBE & Slate

Police brutality survivors, former cops are running for Police District Councils — Chicago Reader

2023 Police District Councils voter guide — Chicago Reader & South Side Weekly