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Illinois' child poverty rate is just as high as it was in 2010. Is the state doing enough to bring it down?Kellia Phillips’ teen-aged daughters Jaleece…
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Southern Illinois city's residents grapple with planned closure of public housing complexes.As the sun set on a recent Friday evening at the McBride…
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Cairo is at the bottom of Illinois. And not just geographically. Poverty is high in a town mired in one of the most de-populating counties in the U.S.…
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After reports of unlivable conditions at public housing in Cairo, Illinois, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development took over the Alexander…
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In some pockets of Illinois, where one in every three people live in poverty or close to it, the need is visible in the landscape: empty lots where…