The fight to represent Chicago’s 5th district in Congress mimics other contests happening at the local and national level. It entails a young, liberal newcomer running against a more moderate incumbent,...
Patsy Newitt, Multimedia Editor
/ February 16, 2020
With Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Cory Booker, Julián Castro and Andrew Yang dropping out of the Democratic primary, the race has become almost exclusively white; led by Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders...
Bianca Cseke, Online Managing Editor
/ February 16, 2020
Three Red Line stops on the North Side have been closed for the past few weeks because of the CTA’s Red and Purple Line Modernization project.
The Bryn Mawr, Thorndale and Granville stops are closed...
Every 10 years, U.S. residents get counted in the Census. But it is not equally easy for all people to be included in the census, and students are among the most underrepresented. From April 1 to July...
A suburban Chicago high school student was released from a southern Illinois immigrant detention center with supporters planning to continue a fight against her deportation to Honduras.
Meydi Guzman,...
Actor Jussie Smollett was indicted Tuesday for a second time on charges of lying to police about a racist and anti-gay attack he allegedly staged on himself in downtown Chicago, renewing a divisive criminal...
Chicago recorded nine homicides between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Sunday, a weekend police said was the deadliest of the year for a city that has seen the number of fatal shootings surge this year after...
The day Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick applied for an Illinois driver's license upended her life. When a clerk offered to register her to vote in 2005, the Peruvian citizen mistakenly accepted, leading...
According to the Federal Election Commision, 91% of the time the better funded campaign wins their election for public office. It is this reality that makes political campaigns dependent upon donations...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Red-light enforcement cameras, at the center of an ex-state senator's guilty plea last week on federal bribery charges, would be banned in some suburban Chicago communities under...
Former Illinois state Rep. Luis Arroyo on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to bribery charges in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
Arroyo, 65, a Chicago Democrat, resigned his seat Nov. 1, one week after he...
Hillary Flores, La DePaulia Editor-in-Chief
/ February 3, 2020
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia launched his re-election campaign for Congress on Saturday, Feb. 1st in Brighton Park, alongside candidates like State Representative Aaron Ortiz and Eira Corral Sepulveda currently...
