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Chicago Schools Monitoring Student Social Media See Violence Drop

In schools where school district officials monitored student social media posts, teens were at a lower risk of being shooting victims.

Lawyers for a food truck owner will make their case in front of the state Supreme Court.

In Seattle, Austin, and Baltimore, politicians and policymakers look at a decision’s racial impact before spending public dollars.

Security workers at Midway Airport are helping each other make it through lean times caused by the partial government shutdown.

Anti-immigrant rhetoric and past uses of the census for immigration enforcement have some immigrants fearful of the 2020 census.

A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military personnel.

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From boycotts to hashtags, Curious City traces the history of a 150-year-old message urging the black community to support black businesses.

The review of health and safety practices follows a WBEZ investigation into repeated Legionnaires’ outbreaks at a state-run veterans’ home.

The former officer was sentenced to nearly seven years for the 2014 death of a black teenager.

The complaint claimed the school knew that a former teacher was allegedly sexually abusing male students.

The state hoped to generate billions of dollars from video poker. That didn’t happen. Now, legislators want to double down on gambling.

After Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested, he got a 14-year prison sentence. Under President Trump, there's a chance he will get out early.

Ray Gomez was always attracted to men, but it wasn’t until he read the poems of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz that he understood love.