Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson reportedly snapped at a reporter for calling young rioters a “mob,” insisting they were just “large gatherings” — and that labeling the riots “mob actions ...

of C.'s Harris School for Public Policy, a past contributor to Chicago (and a ton of other places), and a writer I like a lot, has a new post for us on the history of urban riots in Chicago.

West Madison Street in Chicago was the flashpoint of the April 1968 riots. Decades later, the area is still dotted with vacant lots. Photo: Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune This week marks ...

2020 The phrase "Chicago riots" is already indelibly printed on the minds of longtime residents of the Windy City. The 1968 Chicago Riots, which lasted from April 5 to April 7 were caused by the ...

For the next week, battles raged in Chicago. The death toll of the riots was 38 people. Additionally, over 500 people, most of whom were black, were injured and over a thousand people were left ...

Soon, white residents began throwing stones, preventing the black teenager from coming ashore. His drowning sparked the largest race riots Chicago has ever seen—a week that saw 38 deaths and hundreds ...

The end of May marks the five-year anniversary of the George Floyd riots. It is a dark memory ... And half a decade on, Chicago still reels from the consequences in a way that few other ...