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Like Chicago Police, Cook County and Illinois Officials Track Thousands of...
by Mick Dumke Over the last 25 years, Illinois State Police have built a database of more than 90,000 people they deem to be gang members — but won’t say what gangs they’re in or where they live. The...
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Immigrant Shelters Drug Traumatized Teenagers Without Consent
by Caroline Chen and Jess Ramirez Fleeing an abusive stepfather in El Salvador, Gabriela headed for Oakland, California, where her grandfather had promised to take her in. When the teenager reached...
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Download the Gang Databases We Got From Illinois State Police, Cook County...
by Celeste LeCompte Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Dive deeper into our reporting. Our newsletter is written by a ProPublica Illinois journalist every week. I’m Celeste LeCompte, and today...
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Henri Cauvin to Join ProPublica as Senior Editor
by ProPublica ProPublica announced today that Henri Cauvin will join its staff as a senior editor. Cauvin comes to ProPublica from The New York Times, where he has been an editor on the Metro Desk...
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Trump Administration Neuters Nuclear Safety Board
by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican The Trump administration has quietly taken steps that may inhibit independent oversight of its most high-risk nuclear facilities, including some buildings at Los...
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Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities
by Daniel Golden Under the alias Cynthia Murphy, Russian spy Lydia Guryeva attended Columbia Business School, and ingratiated herself with a key fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential...
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Hand-Picked Mentors and Networking: Apply for ProPublica’s Diversity...
by Hannah Birch It's our pleasure to announce we'll be continuing the popular Diversity Mentorship Program at the Online News Association conference this year. The event, now in its fourth year,...
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Kushner Companies Loses a Key Motion in Class Action Filed by Baltimore Tenants
by Alec MacGillis A Maryland judge is allowing a class action lawsuit against Jared Kushner’s family real estate company to proceed, in a ruling that denies most of the company’s arguments to dismiss...
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Influential Texas Commission Says Blood Spatter Testimony in Joe Bryan’s...
by Pamela Colloff An influential state commission said the blood-spatter analysis used to convict a former Texas high school principal of murdering his wife in 1985 was “not accurate or scientifically...
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New Documentary From ProPublica and Frontline Chronicles a Year of Reporting...
by ProPublica In “Documenting Hate: Charlottesville,” Frontline and ProPublica investigate the white supremacists and neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally. Our joint...
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Why the IRS’ Recent Dark Money Decision May Be Less Dire Than It Seems
by Ian MacDougall Starting next year, the Internal Revenue Service will no longer collect the names of major donors to thousands of nonprofit organizations, from the National Rifle Association to the...
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Facebook Promises to Bar Advertisers From Targeting Ads by Race or Ethnicity....
by Ariana Tobin Facebook announced Tuesday that it would make “legally binding” changes to its advertising platform, removing some features that allowed discrimination in housing, employment,...
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Chicago Hiked the Cost of Vehicle City Sticker Violations to Boost Revenue....
by Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ During negotiations for Chicago’s 2012 budget, newly elected Mayor Rahm Emanuel and then-City Clerk Susana Mendoza agreed to hike the price of...
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Afraid of “Political Repercussions,” HUD Delayed Action on Crumbling Public...
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan CAIRO, Ill. — As public housing deteriorated in Illinois’ southernmost city, bureaucrats at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development delayed...
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The “Terrible” Consequences of Chicago’s Ticketing Policies
by Helga Salinas On Thursday, in partnership with WBEZ, we published the latest in our series of investigations into Chicago’s ticketing practices, pinpointing how the city raised the cost of city...
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“Hidden in Plain Sight”: Hundreds of Immigrant Children and Teens Housed in...
by Jodi S. Cohen, Duaa Eldeib and Melissa Sanchez One shelter, in Bronzeville on Chicago’s South Side, still bears an awning with the name of a nursing home, though no senior citizens have lived there...
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Standing by Their Convictions
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica
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Immigrant Youth Shelters: “If You’re a Predator, It’s a Gold Mine”
by Michael Grabell and Topher Sanders Just five days after he reached the United States, the 15-year-old Honduran boy awoke in his Tucson, Arizona, immigrant shelter one morning in 2015 to find a...
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New York City Launches Initiative to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Maternal...
by Annie Waldman In response to alarming racial disparities, New York City announced a new initiative last week to reduce maternal deaths and complications among women of color. Under the new plan,...
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Una bebé fue separada de su tío en la frontera. Tres meses después, su madre...
por Kavitha Surana SULPHUR, La. — Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya abrió la boca, y una mano enguantada le pasó por cada mejilla un cepillo superficial con un hisopo de algodón. Quince segundos, y la prueba...
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