A low-income family of four in 1950 could still afford rent and utilities for nearly half of Chicago apartments. It's a far ...

But there are far fewer poor families in Chicago waging that fight these days. There were close to 600,000 city residents living below the poverty line in 2010, according to Census data.

University of Chicago Developmental psychologist Ariel Kalil has spent her career studying how parents influence childhood ...

Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal ...

Officials from Chicago and Illinois are sounding the alarm as the U.S. Department of Education plans to lay off about half of ...

Chicago’s troubles with homelessness are both acute and chronic, with the immediate need being to help everyone find safe housing and the long-term need being a real plan to reduce poverty.

Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal ...

Officially launching in 2019, the nonprofit is designed to unlock underprivileged students' potential through career ...

The following news items are reprinted from the Manistee Daily News for the week March 13-19, 1925 and are compiled from the Manistee County archives.

He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago at 18 ... was one of the causes at the root of international poverty. But he considered confiscation a “very dumb way ...

In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more soldiers than ...