Courtney Carson did not want to go to the Decatur church that November day in 1999 when the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to town for a rally. To do so, he remembered all these years later, was to admit a truth he had been trying to deny, that he had taken part in the melee that broke out two months ea...

The ground shifted under Chicago last fall. What’s normal in the city’s majority-Latino communities today isn’t what it was before Operation Midway Blitz.The Southeast Side, long defined by steel mills and working-class communities, was one of the first places Mexicans came to Chicago more ...