The Democracy Solutions Project
Through stories, listening experiences, opinion pieces and news, WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times will take a solutions-oriented approach to reporting on the critical issues facing American democracy today. The yearlong special project -- in partnership with the University of Chicago’s Center for Effective Government, with funding support from the Pulitzer Center -- examines the current threats to our democracy, including barriers to voting, cynicism, misinformation, polarization and much more.
In Case You Missed It
- Street closings, security checkpoints, tree trimming, flower planting — it’s going to start looking a lot like DNC!
- Judge wants Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover in court for his mercy bid
- The hope, the worry and the surreal that Illinois Black female Democratic delegates see in Kamala Harris’ moment
- As the DNC returns to Chicago, Illinois’ dean of the delegation, Dick Durbin, basks in the moment
- Democrats expect Republican leaders to send more buses of migrants to Chicago before the DNC
- Video shows sheriff’s deputy shoot and kill an unarmed woman in Springfield, Ill.
- Kamala Harris presidential campaign considering J.B. Pritzker as running mate