Northwestern students set up protest encampment, call out university censorship of pro-Palestinian speech
Students linked arms and formed a line against police after Northwestern leaders said the tent encampment violated university policy.
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Students linked arms and formed a line against police after Northwestern leaders said the tent encampment violated university policy.
City and state officials say they are in the planning stage of creating a unified shelter system.
After almost two centuries, the Indigenous nation is reestablishing the only reservation in Illinois.
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the decision Friday, placing 130 acres into trust for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, giving the tribal nation sovereignty over the land after the U.S. auctioned off its land 175 years ago.
Too often, we think segregation is self-selection. Instead, it’s the end result of a host of 20th-century laws, policies, ideas and practices that deliberately shaped our region.
The federal government regulates work permits but delays frustrate immigration advocates who want states to take charge.
Psychologist Sylvia Perry studied conversations between white parents and their school-aged children to understand prejudice.
The CBS sitcom featured a Black family living in the public housing development. The legacy of the show is an unvarnished look at love and poverty.
Later this month the justices will hear a case that will determine if cities can use local laws to ban homeless people from sleeping outside with a blanket or other bedding.
It’s a velomobile, and the man behind the wheel is Greek Orthodox monk Father Ephraim, who moved to the Northwest Side after five years at a religious commune in remote Alaska.