Anatomy of the Gambling Bill
Illinois is going to dramatically expand gambling. Here’s the bill and what it means.
The Ticket Trap: Front to Back
The project gave us an opportunity to try a bunch of technical approaches that could help a small organization like ours develop sustainable news apps.
How to Use the Ticket Trap, Our New Database That Lets You Explore How Chicago Tickets Motorists and Collects Debt
We hope you’ll play around with it and let us know how we can make it better.
The Ticket Trap: Explore How Chicago Tickets Motorists and Collects Debt
We’ve collected data on 54 million tickets issued over the past two decades. Search for your address, and see how Chicago’s reliance on ticketing affects motorists across the city.
Explore Racial Disparities in Hundreds of Illinois Schools and Districts
Takeaways from our “Miseducation” app and how you can use it, too.
Miseducation
Is there racial inequality at your school? Look up more than 96,000 individual public and charter schools and 17,000 school districts to see how they compare.
What More Can We Learn From Chicago Ticket Data?
We’ve made the data easy to download, and we invite you to use it as we keep reporting.
When Mapping the Many Disparities in Chicago, It Can Feel Like It’s the Same Story Being Told
But maps can turn personal experiences into powerful evidence.
How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load 1.4GB of Data Every Day
We’ve open-sourced our code for loading Illinois campaign finance data. The process used to take hours. Learn how Make helped cut that down to less than 30 minutes.
When Do Reporters Collaborate, and When Do They Compete?
Increasingly, we work together to produce stronger journalism.