Lizzie Smith
The third in a series on pretrial detention
Shifting Fronts in Bail Reform
Despite reform efforts, the pretrial detention system still causes harm
Politics
赋一个分裂的华埠
特别服务区在不断改变的华埠的拟定设立加剧了社区内部的龃龉
Siena Fite
At the Mayor’s Door
Opponents to South Side school closures march in protest to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s North Side home
“Say Rahm Emanuel has got to go” was one of the many chants during the demonstration.
The Battle Against Money Bonds
How recent organizing movements bring Cook County closer to a world without cash bail
Lizzie Smith
The second in a series on pretrial detention
Stories of Reform and Resistance
For the People Artists Collective chronicles a history of police violence in Chicago
Kiran Misra
Do Not Resist?,” For the People Artists Collective’s 2018 exhibition closed last Friday, February 9 after nearly a month of interdisciplinary generative installations and events across the city. From a training in the basics of cop watching to panels about topics including the abolition ofolf the prison industrial complex and reporting on police violence, the programming engaged thousands of Chicagoans in a conversation about the history of police violence in the city and alternatives to policing in Chicago.
Taxing a Divided Chinatown
A proposed Special Service Area exacerbates rifts in the changing neighborhood
Siena Fite
Who Pulls the Strings on the PLUC?
Pilsen’s Land Use Committee draws heat for cozy relationship with its alderman
Ellen Hao
They don’t want to give agendas to the community. They don’t want to give us anything,” reflected Anderson Chávez, a youth organizer with the Pilsen Alliance. The “they” Chávez was referring to is the Pilsen Land Use Committee (PLUC), an advisory committee set up by Alderman Daniel Solis (25th) to advise him on large-scale developments seeking a home in Pilsen. PLUC is intended to represent the community voice in decision making and uphold an only-in-Pilsen mandate of twenty-one percent affordable housing in all new developments over eight units. The committee is comprised of executives from four local nonprofits: The Resurrection Project, Alivio Medical Center, Eighteenth Street Development Corporation, and the Pilsen Neighbors Community Council.
A History of Bail Reform
A medieval pay-your-way system may be on its way out
Natalie González
The first in a series on pretrial detention
Mano a Mano
Inside Chicago’s Latinx relief efforts
Natalie González
Chicago may sit more than 2,000 miles away from San Juan and over 1,500 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, but the connections between Chicago, Puerto Rico, and Mexico run far deeper than geography would suggest. The city is bound to these regions by the heritage of over one million of its residents—there are over 900,000 people of Mexican descent and over 100,000 people of Puerto Rican descent living in Cook County—and by neighborhoods such as Pilsen, Little Village, and Humboldt Park that form Chicago’s ethnic and cultural mosaic.
The Shots Heard Round the City
Are Chicago’s new shot detection and predictive policing technologies worth it?
Ellen Hao
A gunshot is fired. Depending on where in the city it is, the sound might not just be picked up by human ears. By early next year, almost 130 square miles of Chicago will be monitored for gunshots by mechanical ears as well, via a technology called ShotSpotter.