A Growing Number Of Illinois Employers Will Observe Juneteenth As A Paid Day Off
Commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. as a work holiday can be a way for employers to signal that they are serious about racial equity.
Commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. as a work holiday can be a way for employers to signal that they are serious about racial equity.
The newly signed FY2021 budget makes Illinois the only state to extend Medicaid-like benefits to seniors, regardless of immigration status.
In 2020, Cook County will not be exempt from an 80-hour-a-month work requirement for able-bodied food stamp recipients without children.
A national survey puts Chicago at the top when it comes to welcoming immigrants. But local immigrant advocates say it gives too much credit.
The manufacturing sector’s decline hit nearly all of Chicago, but the city’s black communities suffered the worst blow.
Gentrification has been underway in Uptown for years. But now, even service agencies that have helped define Uptown are being displaced.
On the last night of this summer’s market, residents reflect on their evolving community — and an event that brings them together.
Residents of a 26-unit apartment complex in the heart of Chicago’s Puerto Rican neighborhood are fighting to keep their building affordable.
Progressives say Lightfoot seems a lot like her predecessor. She says she’s starting “a completely different way of governing in Chicago.”
Cook County’s scavenger tax sale yields relatively little of unpaid taxes that property owners owe. Could it be used for something else?