He retooled the Young Lords into a militant advocacy and service organization, modeled after the Black Panthers. Based in ...

The Gene Siskel Film Center’s Worlds of Wiseman series shows us our world. The question is whether or not we can change it.

The additional tax increment financing money will help build more than 300 housing units in the development's southern ...

A housing watchdog group provided screenshots of text messages in dozens of exchanges that showed agents and landlords ...

Puerto Rico native and social justice leader José “Cha Cha” Jiménez died at age 76. According to NBC News, his sister Daisy ...

José "Cha Cha" Jimenez, a Puerto Rican activist in Chicago, died last week. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with DePaul University professor Jacqueline Lazú about his life and legacy.

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and ...

A Cook County jury returned a $24.1 million verdict Thursday to the family of two children who allegedly developed lead poisoning while living in public housing owned by the Chicago Housing Authority ...

CHICAGO — A Chicago family will receive more than $24 million following a verdict in a lawsuit against the Chicago Housing ...

A jury awarded $24,141,000 to two children who suffered lead poisoning while living in a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) ...

The kids lived in an apartment building in Rogers Park. The family’s attorneys said the Chicago Housing Authority gave the ...

The family of Jah'mir Collins and Amiah McGee-Collins said they suffered "severe lead poisoning," and that the CHA lied about ...