Arabella Breck

Here, you’ll find our work on Black wealth in Chicago, created during a Summer 2018 Reporting Fellowship at City Bureau. We hope others will join us in documenting their own stories to paint a fuller picture of Black Chicago.

When veteran sports reporter and Northwestern University Medill School lecturer Melissa Isaacson joined the Niles West High School girls’ basketball team in 1975, she was just trying to find where she fit in.

Almost 50 years ago, a group of animal lovers had a vision for a cat shelter that was not just a waiting room for cats looking for their forever home, but a home itself — for as long as the …

The study shows individual data sets miss parts of the population and lead to inaccurate information about the prevalence of gun violence.

Phoenix Bean Tofu has been perfecting their tofu recipes for over 36 years — here’s how they make soy beans taste so, so good.

Algorithms are often presumed to be free of human error. However, there’s growing evidence that these algorithms not only reflect human biases, but can exacerbate oppression of and discrimination against marginalized groups.

Open Television is taking a big step toward becoming a creative pipeline to Hollywood. For the first time since its inception, OTV will fund the development of projects from four creators.

TEACHx returns for its fourth year to celebrate teaching, learning and technology through a set of programs and a keynote address from Ruha Benjamin, professor of African American studies at Princeton University.

In the collection of poems “On My Way To Liberation,” trans poet and artist H. Melt illustrates a future where trans, nonbinary, and queer folks are safe, supported, and celebrated.

Ad Age World's Largest Advertisers 2018 ranking: Ad Age's exclusive ranking of the 100 biggest spenders.

Roy Kinsey might just be the only librarian in West Humboldt Park who’s dropped two rap albums this year.

Trader Joe's has sold nearly a billion bottles of its renowned Charles Shaw wine since 2002, yet the man who shares a name with the brand hasn't earned a dime from it.

Trader Joe’s "Two-Buck Chuck" is the wine that got many of us through college. But when we found out that “Chuck” – or Charles Shaw – is a real guy, we had to know more.

From slavery and Jim Crow to redlining and mass incarceration, America has a racist history of denying Black people means to build their own wealth.

The City of Chicago’s film makers-in-residence will premiere a new LGBTQ-focused webseries tonight at the Chicago Cultural Center.

A business incubator on Chicago’s Southwest Side is helping disabled entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground through a new grant program.

Labor activists were at McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago today to announce sexual harassment charges against the company.

Chicago’s Spring Special Olympics Games were this week at Dunbar Park on the city’s near South Side. The Chicago Park District says more than 3,800 athletes signed up to compete in this week’s events.

Chicago’s WNBA team will start this season with a few new players and a new home — the Wintrust Arena.

A high school in Des Plaines will no longer have students dress up in a mascot costume that included a headdress after critics said it appropriated Native American culture.