Katie Prout

A history of a "school for wayward girls" reveals issues with youth justice and juvenile detention centers in Illinois.

The Illinois State Training School for Girls in Geneva was the state’s first and only girls’ prison. Today, it remains a cautionary lesson.

American Bulk by Emily Mester covers the upper-middle-class desire to consume or be consumed, via personal and critical essays.

Rent is the fine we pay for having a human need, write Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis in Abolish Rent.

Advocates have fought for years to establish an overdose prevention center in Illinois. What’s the holdup?

In a neighborhood where more than a quarter of the residents live in poverty, the DNC throws a multimillion-dollar party.

I ordered their Kahlo Margarita, a perfect drink that I desire always, and tried hard not to get disgusting with the Tajín while my friends and I exchanged increasingly horrific family memories. 

I ordered their Kahlo Margarita, a perfect drink that I desire always, and tried hard not to get disgusting with the Tajín while my friends and I exchanged increasingly horrific family memories. 

My appetite has been happily sated on walks to or from the lake in every season by the roasted chicken and red pepper relish sandwich from Sfera Sicilian Street Food.

This year marks a century since the murder and Higdon’s Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century was republished to note the occasion.