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Posted inArts & Culture

Unionizing to keep the Experimental Station community alive

by S. Nicole Lane May 28, 2021August 18, 2021

Workers at the pioneering south side space organize against unfair labor practices.

Posted inNews & Politics

Chicago won’t pay ‘hush money’ to prevent police misconduct records release—for now

by Maya Dukmasova July 21, 2020August 18, 2021

A City Council vote on Charles Green’s lawsuit settlement was postponed.

Posted inNews & Politics

One murder, four years, no answers

by Maya Dukmasova May 12, 2020August 18, 2021

A mother takes to podcasting wondering if CPD did “a cover-up or are they just this damn incompetent?”

Posted inBlogs

Invisible Institute launches expanded police misconduct database

by Maya Dukmasova August 16, 2018August 18, 2021

Police union spokesman says “motives” behind database are “perfectly transparent.”

Posted inBlogs

Chicago Data Collaborative launches criminal justice data portal

by Maya Dukmasova January 25, 2018August 18, 2021

The cooperative connects the dots between data sets about the same person or case buried among various city and county agencies.

Posted inArts & Culture

For the People Artists Collective looks back on 100 years of police violence in Chicago

by Kerry Cardoza January 24, 2018August 18, 2021

“Do Not Resist?” spreads its message throughout the city

Posted inBlogs

Lots of questions about police accountability, few satisfying answers from IPRA director

by Maya Dukmasova March 23, 2017August 18, 2021

Sharon Fairley spoke with the Invisible Institute’s Jamie Kalven—and a room of Chicagoans sick of waiting for police reform.

Posted inNews & Politics

People Issue 2016: Nineteen Chicagoans in their own words

by Reader staff December 7, 2016August 18, 2021

An Nobel Prize-winning chemist, a 12-year-old theater critic, an American Ninja Warrior stuntman, and more extraordinary Chicagoans

Posted inBlogs

New ‘Yelp for cops’ app takes epidemiological approach to police misconduct

by Maya Dukmasova October 19, 2016August 18, 2021

Though it’s a private middleman for complaints, police transparency advocates welcome Excuse Me Officer.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago police union plans last ditch effort to hide police misconduct records

by Maya Dukmasova July 12, 2016August 18, 2021

But options for blocking biggest cop data dump in history are dwindling.

Posted inArts & Culture

The trials after exoneration

by Steve Bogira June 7, 2016August 18, 2021

In Exoneree Diaries, journalist Alison Flowers documents the struggles of four murder convicts who were absolved and freed.

Posted inBlogs

Jamie Kalven honored for journalistic valor

by Michael Miner March 24, 2016August 18, 2021

Jamie Kalven wins a Ridenhour Courage Prize.

Posted inBlogs

Jamie Kalven wins Polk Award for his coverage of Laquan McDonald

by Michael Miner February 15, 2016August 18, 2021

The Invisible Institute founder is being honored not only for what he reported but for what he predicted.

Posted inBlogs

Invisible Institute wins $400,000 Knight grant

by Michael Miner January 27, 2016August 18, 2021

The Invisible Institute was demanding the release of any police video of 2014’s fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald even before it was certain a video existed.

Posted inBlogs

In freedom of information triumph, Chicago police misconduct complaint records now online

by Steve Bogira November 10, 2015August 18, 2021

But the victory is limited by an injunction that insulates the vast majority of police shooting investigations from public scrutiny.

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