Comedian Michael Palascak is returning to his Midwest roots. The former Illinois resident will perform a night of standup comedy at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 24, at The Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin. “It’s one of the first larger-venue shows…
A team of reporters from the nonprofit journalism organizations Invisible Institute and ProPublica have reviewed more than 300 sexual assault and misconduct complaints that were filed over the past decade against Chicago police officers. But experts say that’s likely an…
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. The request from child welfare authorities seemed harmless enough: Order a newborn drug test. Dr. Sharon Ostfeld-Johns and her hospital…
American Masters, an award-winning documentary series in its 39th season on PBS, promises to tell “compelling, unvarnished stories” about the nation’s most important cultural figures. The program’s most recent story, though—Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, about the cartoonist-author of…
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction…
The U.S. Supreme Court Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images “Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from participating in the case. As a professor at the University of Notre Dame, she was involved with a legal…
Senior pitcher Jackson Davenport isn’t bothered by the fact that he has played for four coaches in his four seasons at Griffith. He even embraces it. “Every coach has something you can learn from them,” Davenport said. “So instead of…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The week before President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that sent the stock market plummeting, a key…
This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. Shortly after dark one day in September 2022, police officers Yang Lee and Charles Laskey-Castle arrived on…
About two years ago, Ezra Furman gave up—first in her mind, and then, it seemed, in her body. The 38-year-old singer was nearly two decades into a prolific rock-and-roll career. Her nervy, poetic sound had earned devoted fans and critical…