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Violence

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Jobs. Block Clubs. Investment: How Chicagoans Are Interrupting Violence at its Roots

by Jim Daley May 27, 2025December 5, 2025

The causes and solutions to gun violence are difficult to quantify—or control. One thing is clear: gun violence is highest in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. Organizers in the hardest-hit communities like Garfield Park say tackling poverty is the only way to create lasting change.

Shot Spotter. Illustration By: Lucas Martinez
Posted inJustice, Latest, Police, Technology, Violence

Op-Ed: End the City’s ShotSpotter Contract

by Freddy Martinez and Lucy Parsons Labs April 28, 2021
Posted inLatest

Who Defines a Mass Shooting? The Media.

by Madison Muller April 14, 2021April 21, 2021
Courtesy of Murder Accountability Project Taskforce on murdered and missing women.
Posted inCover

The Unsolved Cases of Missing and Murdered Women

by Kira Leadholm January 6, 2021January 18, 2021
Posted inJustice

Op-Ed: Chicago Gun Violence Is a Public Health Crisis

by Charles Jones December 9, 2020December 9, 2020
Posted inViolence

Op-Ed: King Von, Drill Music, Parkway Gardens, and South Side Chicago

by Kulwa Apara December 9, 2020December 11, 2020
A light at the end of the tunnel
Posted inViolence

An End to Cash Bond in Illinois is Only the Beginning of Restorative Justice

by Nikki Roberts December 9, 2020January 13, 2021
Pilsen. Photo Credit: Jacqueline Serrato
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Best of Pilsen 2020

by Jacqueline Serrato November 27, 2020November 28, 2020
Photo By: Mateo Zapata
Posted inActivism

Standing on Gang Territory

by Mateo Zapata September 17, 2020September 21, 2020
Posted inLatest

Fact-Checking Police Supt. David Brown on August 15

by Jim Daley and Jason Schumer September 2, 2020February 25, 2021

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