#journalismjob alert: Illinois Answers Project is hiring an investigative reporter to join our state team
💰 $75k-$90k
📍Remote for candidates already reporting in central or southern Illinois

Apply by March 27:
illinoisanswers.org/2024/02/29/sta…

Calling all Illinois journalists 📣

Submissions are now open for the 20th Anniversary Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Investigative Reporting. Learn more and submit your entries here: illinoisanswers.org/2024/02/27/the…

The Chicago Housing Authority is supposed to provide affordable homes for those in need. But the agency has nearly 500 scattered-site units that are vacant — many causing problems for their neighbors.

From Illinois Answers Project and Block Club Chicago: illinoisanswers.org/2023/11/29/chi…

We're building a new state team at Illinois Answers Project and we have one more opening for an embedded investigative reporter. Details here: illinoisanswers.org/2023/10/12/emb…

I'll be there! Join us Friday and I can fill you in on our current opening: illinoisanswers.org/2023/10/12/emb…

Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith tells staff in a town hall call that his last day will be Dec. 31st. Illinois Answers Project illinoisanswers.org/2023/10/04/dcf…

For years now, Better Government Association/Illinois Answers Project has been reporting how Chicago's slow, disorganized building regulation system misses safety issues.

So what does it look like when a city actually holds bad landlords accountable? We went to Denver to find out:
illinoisanswers.org/2023/09/18/chi…

.Jewél Jackson and Emeline Posner examined hundreds of pages of records (land appraisals, real estate agreements, internal emails between officials) to lay out the school’s development process. Take a look >>

.Nada Hassanein explains why a common heart defect is diagnosed late - or not at all - in Latino infants
usatoday.com/story/news/hea…

At least 226 convictions tied to former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his team have been vacated – the largest series of exonerations in the city’s history.

No officer has faced charges in these cases.

Read Grace Hauck's report: usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…

Latest from Nada Hassanein >> usatoday.com/story/news/hea…

'We are not OK,' Comerío resident Maria de Jesus Medina, 83, told Kevin Crowe. 'It's difficult to keep it together, to try and get back up again.' usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

Prosecutors charged Robert Telles on Monday with a count of murder. He due to be formally arraigned today. Here's Trevor Hughes' story about Las Vegas investigative reporter Jeff German and his work usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

A fascinating read from Grace Hauck, who spoke to archeologists about why a missing foot has changed what we believe about prehistoric human life usatoday.com/story/news/nat…