This school year, Chicago Public Schools students will learn the basics: English, math and the shameful history of torture in the Chicago Police Department. As part of a reparations package, which City Council passed on May 6, 2015, CPS will now teach eighth-graders and high school sophomores about Jon Burge, a former CPD detective accused of using torture primarily on black men in his custody between the 1970s and 1990s to for...

Ten months into the Department of Justice’s civil investigation of the Chicago Police Department, the fifth public forum was held to air complaints of police brutality or misconduct.The forum, held Oct...

An Internet connection is essential to many Chicagoans for day-to-day life, but even the country’s third largest city suffers from a substantial shortage of this basic amenity.“5 Big Ideas for the 21st Century City,” an event hosted by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation on Feb. 28, brought four of Chicago’s leading thinkers together to present ideas on how to tackle some of the city’s biggest problems, inclu...

The Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, 219 S. Dearborn St., was packed with the alleged victims of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge, for the sentencing of the man whose name has become synonymous with police brutality throughout the last four decades.Burge received a sentence of 54 months in prison from Judge Joan Lefkow on Jan. 21 Burge was found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice last June. He was convic...