CHICAGO — Block Club Chicago, a nonprofit, reader-funded newsroom focused on Chicago’s neighborhoods, won Best Newspaper, ...

Three months after local news specialist DNAinfo’s website was abruptly pulled offline, a team of Chicago journalists have rebirthed its spirit as Block Club Chicago — boosted by blockchain and ...

This article was originally published on Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative website and is republished here with permission. Block Club Chicago — a nonprofit newsroom that has been ...

Three months after billionaire Joe Ricketts abruptly shut down hyperlocal news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist, three former DNAinfo Chicago editors have announced they’re launching Block Club Chicago, a ...

Even before the violence flared around Chicago this summer long before someone was shot to death at the end of their block in July Robert Brown and Michelle Lee-Sebastian saw signs of trouble.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On 8000 South Euclid Ave. in the South Chicago neighborhood, the self-proclaimed "new kid of the block" moved in five years ago. Rodney Meeks only had to point across the street from ...

An earlier story in this space about starting and operating successful block clubs in northeast Ohio generated many responses. Additional club members wished to weigh in with their thoughts. Carol and ...

Body camera footage showing a Chicago police officer fatally shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo was released on Thursday. Jen Sabella, co-founder and director of strategy of the local nonprofit newsroom ...