Cairo

Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’, housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weirder things got.

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…

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…

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.…

After reports of unlivable conditions at public housing in Cairo, Illinois, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development took over the Alexander…

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…