“Black, brown, and elderly CHA residents languished and died, their names sitting on a de facto waiting list for nearly a decade before their much needed and deserved reasonable accommodations were ever made available,” according to whistleblower Amanda Motyka.

Took a data deep dive on Chicago area suburbs, where social services infrastructure sometimes don't keep up with how quickly the population is diversifying racially but also economically and culturally. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

BLACK HISTORY — From the 1840s to the 1860s, the John and Mary Jane Richardson Jones used their influence to fight against the Illinois Black Codes that prohibited Black people from voting, required them to carry a “certificate of freedom,” and more. thetriibe.com/2021/06/the-...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

Mayor Johnson said: "We took her to court and we won back millions of dollars for taxpayers and more than 800 lots across the South and West Sides of the city of Chicago.” But he got the facts wrong. My latest w/ @ctoner.bsky.social @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/04/c...

Read of the day: reverse mortgage scammer Mark Diamond and an accomplice are now behind bars, but >100 victims and their next of kin are still in court fighting to regain title of family properties. Others have lost those homes. By @tatiwm.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/03/f...

A white former sheriff’s deputy convicted of murdering an unarmed Black woman in her Springfield area home was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison, marking a capstone in a racially charged case of police brutality that drew national headlines.