Emeline Posner

Dozens of Chicago suburbs have shifted to majority nonwhite Flossmoor and Lansing are now majority-Black, while Burbank and Franklin Park are now majority-Latino, according to a WBEZ analysis of new census data.

Took a data deep dive on Chicago area suburbs, where social services infrastructure sometimes don't keep up with how quickly the population is diversifying racially but also economically and culturally.
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The rise of Black political power in early Chicago • The TRiiBE From abolition to the fight for political office, the work of early Black Chicagoans helped to establish Black political power.

BLACK HISTORY — From the 1840s to the 1860s, the John and Mary Jane Richardson Jones used their influence to fight against the Illinois Black Codes that prohibited Black people from voting, required them to carry a “certificate of freedom,” and more.

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Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.

We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.

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City Sues For Millions In Damages After ‘Worst Landowner’ Property Auction Fails It’s the latest controversy surrounding land owned by Suzie B. Wilson and her sister Swedlana Dass, who have been caught in a legal web since a 2023 investigation by Illinois Answers Project and Block...

Mayor Johnson said: "We took her to court and we won back millions of dollars for taxpayers and more than 800 lots across the South and West Sides of the city of Chicago.”

But he got the facts wrong.

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Families Scammed By Convicted Mortgage Fraudsters Are Still Fighting For Their Homes More than two decades after Mark Diamond began conning homeowners on the West and South sides, some of his victims have lost their homes, while others are battling lenders in court.

Read of the day: reverse mortgage scammer Mark Diamond and an accomplice are now behind bars, but >100 victims and their next of kin are still in court fighting to regain title of family properties. Others have lost those homes. By @tatiwm.bsky.social
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White former downstate cop gets 20-year sentence for murdering Sonya Massey

A white former sheriff’s deputy convicted of murdering an unarmed Black woman in her Springfield area home was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison, marking a capstone in a racially charged case of police brutality that drew national headlines.