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

Supreme court rejects Alabama’s request to execute a prisoner, setting up showdown over method decried by experts as brutal.

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

The killing of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday morning marks a dramatic escalation of what was already a very tense moment for Minneapolis.

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.”

Tensions have been escalating in Chicago since the Trump administration began a widespread immigration enforcement operation across the city in early September.

Conservative evangelicals’ embrace of Charlie Kirk’s legacy is forcing some Black Christians to reconcile the activist’s divisive comments on race with the Christian values of tolerance and empathy.

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.

All students in Tennessee public and charter schools must begin annual firearm safety lessons after the state became the first to pass a law requiring the training.

To see how the parks are faring amid the turmoil, Washington Post reporters visited four just before peak summer season. We found that changes so far were subtle, though staff cautioned that issues might emerge in coming months.

Restaurant owners worry they’ll be forced to pare down their offerings, raise their prices and hinge their futures on increasingly razor-thin profit margins.

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.

Trapped volunteers call on the U.S. to stop sending weapons to Israel, as the closure of the Rafah border crossing cuts the flow of food and medical supplies.

A The Washington Post investigation found that O’Hare Clinical Lab Services rapidly expanded from a small Chicago-area lab into a nationwide COVID-19 testing provider. Federal inspectors later uncovered major safety and regulatory violations.

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?

Today, why the United States is saying goodbye to its pandas. And how the bears became a powerful diplomatic symbol of U.S.-China relations.

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.

After the Supreme Court on Friday overturned the fundamental right to abortion established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade, abortion clinics like this one in states where, at least for now, the procedure remains legal are even more on edge.

Finch said he has no ties to Mayfield — he lives an hour and a half away and has never been hit by a devastating tornado. But the decision to borrow a relative’s smoker and drive in the dark so he could start lighting coals by 4:30 a.m. was a simple one.

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.

Meet the Young Activists Fighting Chicago’s Gun Violence, With Lobbying and Group Hugs In a city where safety is not equally felt, GoodKids MadCity is creating a space for young people “to feel free,” and refusing to wait for grownups to act.

Prison gerrymandering is distorting democracy in states across the Midwest and nationwide, leaving incarcerated people with inequitable representation—or none at all.

Deaf music fans want more than viral fame. They want the access — and independence — of the hearing-centric music world.