This Chicago Community Envisions a World Without Prisons and Police

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair.

Often referred to as the most segregated city in the U.S. by media outlets like WBEZ Chicago and 14East, Chicago, Illinois, is riddled with redlining and racial profiling. A May 2024 report by a team of United Nations experts outlined a history of racist police brutality in the Chicago area, while a 2019 New York University School of Medicine study found that Chicagoans in the predominantly white neighborhood of Streeterville live an average of 30 years...