Kim Bellware

In a novel public-private partnership, a Chicago suburb raffled off the opportunity for local residents to buy houses below market rate.

Though the federal government’s prosecution fell apart, the Broadview Six of Illinois say their lives have been upended

The Rev. Guilherme Peixoto scrambled to adjust his DJ set for an upcoming youth festival when he realized he had a new opening act: His Holiness, the pope.

Businesses in Little Village, one of the city’s most important commercial districts, have seen sales plummet during “Operation Midway Blitz.”

The Post’s Kim Bellware explains how the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operation in Chicago has been affecting the city’s Latino community.

The intractable problem of school gun violence is now pushing some prosecutors to consider a provocative — some say overdue — question: When a child picks up a gun and hurts or kills someone, should their parents be held responsible, too?

Six college students, far removed from the day 26 people were shot to death in their Connecticut elementary school, want to shape the next generation of the fight for gun control rather than forget.

Principal Anna Cirilli remembers the first Ukrainian refugee who showed up at her school, a week after Russia invaded Ukraine. A Chicago school opened its doors to dozens of Ukrainian refugee students, offering a community far from the war.

For 22 years, Connie Ellison has sought answers to the questions that sprang from the night her boyfriend was murdered in the driveway of his parents’ home. Her questions lingered even after a man was convicted and sentenced to death row for the crime. They have led her to an unexpected place: advocating for the man, Julius Jones, as his case reaches an urgent new phase.