Kari Lydersen

With trust in police at a historic low, the Chicago Police Department’s latest community policing initiative puts relationship building at its center.

Data from 15 states reveal that female inmates are disciplined at higher rates than men for smaller infractions of prison rules — often with harsh consequences.

There’s no guarantee that the Presidential Library would be on the South Side, but some see it as an enormous potential economic engine.

Roman Villareal grew up in the shadow of U.S. Steel’s massive South Works mill, and he started working in the mills at 17. On the Southeast Side, it was a common family tradition.

It’s no secret that Chicago has lots of lakefront property. But within the city limits there’s almost 700 acres of lakefront real estate that’s still undeveloped on the the site of a former steel mill on the Southeast Side. The city and state are making major improvements that they hope will spur interest in development.

The Grand Calumet River system winds for 13 miles through a Northwest Indiana industrial landscape that could almost be described as post-apocalyptic.

Crucial sewer system improvements across the Great Lakes are at risk because of the federal budget crisis. And it’s happening just as climate change is expected to mean more heavy rain.