Upwards of 500 hundred people marched throughout downtown Chicago on Tuesday, November 24 to protest the police killing of Laquan McDonald at the hands of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. McDonald was shot sixteen times and the video was withheld from public view until a judge ordred it released. McDonald was holding a small knife but was shot repeatedly in the dashcam video. The family was paid 5 million dollars in a settlement with the City of Chicago, but yesterday officer Van Dyke was also charged with murder after a whistleblower brought the video to the attention of a local journalist who then sued the city to have it released. The City of Chicago's Police Department has a long and difficult history associated with police brutality reaching back decades.

Chicago, Illinois USA - Photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz of Chicago. Chicago is the largest city by population in the state of Illinois and the Midwest of the United States. Adjacent to Lake Michigan, the Chicago metropolitan area (commonly referred to as Chicagoland) has a population of over 9.7 million people in three U.S. states, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, and was the third largest metropolitan area in 2000. One of the largest cities in North America, Chicago is among the world's twenty-five largest urban areas by population, and rated an alpha world city by the World Cities Study Group at Loughborough University. It is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles, with a population of nearly 3 million people. Chicago incorporated as a city in 1837 after being founded in 1833 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. The city soon became a major transportation hub in North America and the transportation, financial and industrial center of the Midwest. Today the city's attractions bring 44.2 million visitors annually. Chicago became notorious worldwide for its violent gangsters in the 1920s, most notably Al Capone, and for its political corruption in one of the longest tenures of political machinery in the United States. Chicago was once the capital of the railroad industry and until the 1960s the world's largest meatpacking facilities were at the Union Stock Yards. O'Hare International is one of the world's busiest airports and the second busiest in the nation. The city has a notable and famous political culture, is a stronghold of the Democratic Party, and has been home to numerous influential politicians, including the first African-American president-elect of the United States, Barack Obama. Chicago is called the "Windy City", "Chi-Town", "Second City," and the "City of Big Shoulders".

Josue Enrique Vargas, Michoacan, Mexico worked as a home painter in the United States. He had been in the United States for five years when he was picked up for a DUI (drunk driving) arrest. Portraits of undocumented Latin American immigrants inmates in Maricopa County's Tent City Jail in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1993 Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio set up a "Tent City" as an extension of the Maricopa County Jail in an effort to tackle over-crowding without building a new jail. All inmates in Tent City are required to wear pink underwear and old fashioned striped jump suits. Since 2006 ?America?s Toughest Sheriff? as Arpaio likes to be called, has increasingly focused energy on the undocumented Latin American community in Maricopa County. The County Sheriff's office has approximately 162 federally trained 287(g) officers. Under 287(g), ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) provides state and local law enforcement with the training and subsequent authorization to identify, process, and when appropriate, detain immigration offenders they encounter during their regular, daily law-enforcement activity. If an undocumented person is convicted of a crime it is quite possible they serve their jail time in Tent City?s O Yard. The O Yard houses the many of the undocumented prisoners who have been convicted of a crime in Maricopa County. Arpaio?s office chooses to ensure that undocumented immigrants who are convicted of a crime serve their time before they are they turned over to federal immigration authorities to face immigration proceedings. Tent City is a medium security facility. Tent City is located in a yard next to a more permanent structure containing toilets, showers, an area for meals, and a day room. It has become notable particularly because of Phoenix's extreme temperatures. Daytime temperatures inside the tents have been reported as high as 150 ∞F (65 ∞C) in the top bunks. During the summer, fans and water are supplied in the tents. During the summ

Daniel Martinez, Durango, Mexico has been in the United States for four years. He worked as a roofer before he was arrested and given two months in the Tent City Jail. He says that the government just wants to "Fuck the Mexicans and now that there is no more work they 'don't need me anymore." Portraits of undocumented Latin American immigrants inmates in Maricopa County's Tent City Jail in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1993 Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio set up a "Tent City" as an extension of the Maricopa County Jail in an effort to tackle over-crowding without building a new jail. All inmates in Tent City are required to wear pink underwear and old fashioned striped jump suits. Since 2006 ?America?s Toughest Sheriff? as Arpaio likes to be called, has increasingly focused energy on the undocumented Latin American community in Maricopa County. The County Sheriff's office has approximately 162 federally trained 287(g) officers. Under 287(g), ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) provides state and local law enforcement with the training and subsequent authorization to identify, process, and when appropriate, detain immigration offenders they encounter during their regular, daily law-enforcement activity. If an undocumented person is convicted of a crime it is quite possible they serve their jail time in Tent City?s O Yard. The O Yard houses the many of the undocumented prisoners who have been convicted of a crime in Maricopa County. Arpaio?s office chooses to ensure that undocumented immigrants who are convicted of a crime serve their time before they are they turned over to federal immigration authorities to face immigration proceedings. Tent City is a medium security facility. Tent City is located in a yard next to a more permanent structure containing toilets, showers, an area for meals, and a day room. It has become notable particularly because of Phoenix's extreme temperatures. Daytime temperatures inside the tents have been reported as high as 150 ∞F (6

Guadalupe Guzman at her Back of the Yards home. Lupe has been selling elotes on the street for more than 15 years. This photograph was taken circa 2002.

Chicago, Illinois USA - Chicago is the largest city by population in the state of Illinois and the Midwest of the United States. Adjacent to Lake Michigan, the Chicago metropolitan area (commonly referred to as Chicagoland) has a population of over 9.7 million people in three U.S. states, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, and was the third largest metropolitan area in 2000. One of the largest cities in North America, Chicago is among the world's twenty-five largest urban areas by population, and rated an alpha world city by the World Cities Study Group at Loughborough University. It is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles, with a population of nearly 3 million people. Chicago incorporated as a city in 1837 after being founded in 1833 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. The city soon became a major transportation hub in North America and the transportation, financial and industrial center of the Midwest. Today the city's attractions bring 44.2 million visitors annually. Chicago became notorious worldwide for its violent gangsters in the 1920s, most notably Al Capone, and for its political corruption in one of the longest tenures of political machinery in the United States. Chicago was once the capital of the railroad industry and until the 1960s the world's largest meatpacking facilities were at the Union Stock Yards. O'Hare International is one of the world's busiest airports and the second busiest in the nation. The city has a notable and famous political culture, is a stronghold of the Democratic Party, and has been home to numerous influential politicians, including the first African-American president-elect of the United States, Barack Obama. Chicago is called the "Windy City", "Chi-Town", "Second City," and the "City of Big Shoulders".

Hundreds of people continue to protest the ongoing aftermath of police killings of black men in the City of Chicago. The most recent video to be released was that of 25 year old Ronald Johnson. He was shot and killed by Chicago Police while resisting arrest and running away in 2014. Police and state prosecutors claim that the video shows a gun in Johnson's hand as he ran away and was shot in the back, but activists and family membesr dispute the fact. Charges will not be filed against the officer who killed Johnson. Additionally, 17 year old Laquan McDonald was shot and killed at the hands of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. McDonald was shot sixteen times and the video was withheld from public view until a judge ordered it released. McDonald was holding a small knife but was shot repeatedly in the dash cam video. The family was paid 5 million dollars in a settlement with the City of Chicago and recently officer Van Dyke was also charged with murder after a whistleblower brought the video to the attention of a local journalist who then sued the city to have it released. The City of Chicago's Police Department has a long and difficult history associated with police brutality reaching back decades. Protests continue to grow and have led to the resignation of police superintendent Garry McCarthy as well as calls for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. Additionally, the Justice Department has opened an ongoing investigation of the Chicago Police Department's handling of these cases and their use of excessive force.

A protestor holds a rose during an early evening demonstration on W. Florissant during the August protests against the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. On August 9, 2014 Ferguson, Missouri Police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed the unarmed 18 year old Michael Brown. This led to two weeks of civil unrest in the small Mid-Western town as protestors rose up to protest the killing. The protests continued for more than three months until a Grand Jury refused to bring charges against the officer in late November. Following the no indictment decision protestors again rose up both peacefully and violently with a result of burning at least 21 businesses in the communities in and around Ferguson. Ferguson has become synonymous with police brutality and the chant ?Hands Up! Don?t Shoot!? that protestors faced down military clad police man in the days following Brown?s killing. In the United States a black man is killed every 28 hours at the hands of police. Offending police officers are almost never indicted and even more rarely convicted of any of these killings. The protesters above all are calling for more police accountability. While black men are 21 times more likely than white men to be killed by police, Latinos are also killed by police at high rates. The increasing militarization of the police and the throughout the United States has struck a real cord of discontent across many races as people from all walks of life are now hitting the streets to protest police treatment of black people. The decision of the Michael Brown Grand Jury and the subsequent no indictment decision in the Eric Garner killing case at the hands of New York Police offices has laid bare deep racial divides that still exist in the United States and shown many outside the black community what type of actual discrimination still exists in the US. I traveled to Ferguson, Missouri just days after after Michael Brown was killed and have been following

Photographs from Chicago's Paul Revere Elementary School in the Greater Grand Crossing Neighborhood. The S. Oakwood/Brookhaven or "Pocket Town" neighborhood is a small, tight knit black community on Chicago's S. Side. Roots run deep in this neighborhood. The stakes are high for the children of this community. Born into poverty, surrounded by drugs and gangs, poorly served by the city and local schools, many of the children face an uncertain future. In the past two decades this working class neighborhood has seen a steady decline as the S. Side's industry has moved away. Paul Revere Elementary School is the hub for neighborhood. Gary Comer, a Chicago philanthropist who grew up in the neighborhood has adopted the school. He has developed a community based plan for change and redevelopment starting with the school. In the past six years he has invested millions of dollars in Revere and recently completed construction on a $23 million dollar youth center. The Comer Science and Education Foundation is also developing Revere Run, a development plan that will add 90 new homes to the neighborhood. The past few years have marked the end of the Pocket's isolation. A few new homes have been completed and change is imminent, but for the most part, the neighborhood's children struggle through their daily lives with passion, hope and resilience. Jon Lowenstein spent three years documenting life at Paul Revere Elementary School.

Chicago, Illinois USA - Chicago Police officer on the Magnificent Mile. Chicago is the largest city by population in the state of Illinois and the Midwest of the United States. Adjacent to Lake Michigan, the Chicago metropolitan area (commonly referred to as Chicagoland) has a population of over 9.7 million people in three U.S. states, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, and was the third largest metropolitan area in 2000. One of the largest cities in North America, Chicago is among the world's twenty-five largest urban areas by population, and rated an alpha world city by the World Cities Study Group at Loughborough University. It is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles, with a population of nearly 3 million people. Chicago incorporated as a city in 1837 after being founded in 1833 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. The city soon became a major transportation hub in North America and the transportation, financial and industrial center of the Midwest. Today the city's attractions bring 44.2 million visitors annually. Chicago became notorious worldwide for its violent gangsters in the 1920s, most notably Al Capone, and for its political corruption in one of the longest tenures of political machinery in the United States. Chicago was once the capital of the railroad industry and until the 1960s the world's largest meatpacking facilities were at the Union Stock Yards. O'Hare International is one of the world's busiest airports and the second busiest in the nation. The city has a notable and famous political culture, is a stronghold of the Democratic Party, and has been home to numerous influential politicians, including the first African-American president-elect of the United States, Barack Obama. Chicago is called the "Windy City", "Chi-Town", "Second City," and the "City of Big Shoulders".

Randal Howard "Rand" Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American eye surgeon and politician. He is the third oldest child of Republican Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. Paul is an opthalmologist, and the chairman and founder of Kentucky Taxpayers United. Paul is a graduate of Baylor University and Duke University School of Medicine. In August 2009, Paul officially announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat currently held by retiring Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky after a draft movement by many of his father's supporters. Paul, a lifelong Republican, is currently the frontrunner in the Senate primary

Former gang leader and drug kingpin Noonie Ward as photographed at his former stalking grounds in the Altgeld Gardens Public Housing Developments on Chicago's Far South Side. Photographs showing the impact of social violence on Chicago's most impoverished neighborhoods. The article focuses on attempting to make a connection between Mexico's largest and most powerful drug kingpin Chapo Guzman and the drug trade in Chicago. The DEA in Chicago attributes 90% of all drugs coming into Chicago are controlled by Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel, but accurate numbers are difficult to quantify. One thing is for sure violence in Chicago's poorest neighborhood continues to impact the community in difficult and long-lasting ways.

Jaime Parada, a councilman in Santiago?s Providencia neighborhood, is Chile?s first openly gay public official. The son of staunch supporters of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Parada won his position in a politically conservative community that had had a high-ranking secret policeman serve as its mayor from 1996 to 2012. Parada worked with new Mayor Josefa Errazuriz to change one of the neighborhood?s major streets from Avenida 11 de Septiembre, a name that honored the Pinochet coup, to Nueva Providencia, or New Providencia. Parada also works as spokesman for MOVILH, or the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation. In that capacity he helped organize the 2013 Open Mind Fest, a musical and political event that drew tens of thousands of people to Paseo Bulnes, just blocks from congressional offices and the presidential palace. Parada explained that event organizers chose the festival?s location in part to send a message to politicians of the community?s voting clout. Five of the nine presidential candidates attended the event. Forty years after the coup headed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Chile remains a wounded, divided nation where the past lives in the present. The nation?s enduring rifts are visible in the glaring contrast between the entrenched poverty in Santiago?s shantytowns and the country?s elite, who enriched themselves during the dictatorship as the Pinochet application of policies designed bythe ?Chicago Boys? who had learned from Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. The gap has grown in recent years to the point where Chile?s l History is alive in the homes of people like Ana Gonzalez, a woman whose husband, two sons and daughter-in-law were disappeared during the dictatorship. And it?s a force in the November presidential election featuring Michelle Bachelet and Evelyn Matthei. The daughters of Air Force Generals played together as children, but their lives were changed permanently by the coup. Matthei?s fat

Janelle McGee, right, poses with her niece Julia Bush in front of their relative's home on Chicago's South Side. This past year saw increased bloodshed in Chicago's. An almost 20% rise in murders pushed the total murders to 506 for 2012. Chicago?s South Side has experienced major changes over the past decade. Covering more than half the city of Chicago, the area has seen the dissolution of the world?s largest public housing developments, a multi-million dollar rehabilitation of the lakefront area as well as a spike in crime and violence in neighborhoods like Englewood and Little Village. Photographer Jon Lowenstein, who recently received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for his decade long project documenting the lives of the people living on the South Side in an attempt to showing the reality in one of the most segregated cities in our country.

Brignol Duval. Portraits of the beneficiaries of Maurice Bonhomme and Jean Antoine Cayamitte. All people photographed are part of a group of people who have received support before, during and after the January 12 earthquake. There are many more people who consistently receive aid from the two men. Both men are security guards at New Trier High School on Chicago's North Shore. The Haitian Diaspora remits 30% of the Haitian economy each year. consistently assisted by Maurice On the evening of March 27th, 2010 we left Chicago and set out with Haitian émigrés Maurice Bonhomme and Jean Cayamitte to return to their native hometown Petit Goave, a coastal province 40 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince. They hadn’t been back since an aftershock on January 20th struck four miles from the town and razed what little the earthquake left precariously standing eight days before. Communication since then had been scattershot and difficult and they didn’t know what to expect. Since leaving Haiti in 1986, they’ve sent remittances from Chicago that have sustained a school and a number of families. They had heard the school was gone, but the condition of friends and family remained mostly unknown. As we made our way, we encountered their ravaged beloved - their sisters, aunties, godfathers, nieces and nephews, their best friends of youth, their priests...sitting outside their entombed homes, minding children and gazing out at the ruin of the lives. These interactions did two things. First, they politely chronicled their loss to Maurice and Jean. Then they began their appeals. The latter ran the gamut from tents to relief from a stubborn local Voudou hex, from recreated documents lost in the quake to school supplies and a formula supply for a baby survived by a mother whose burial also needed to be arranged. The list is tireless and the ngo’s were packing up to go home. By following Maurice and Jean in their individual efforts to restore the people and establishments

Michael Paullin says that his medicaid benefits were cut off recently because he earned too much money from his Social Security benefits. Paullin, receives about 950 per month and is responsible for about $500 per month. Medicare pays the vast percentage of the almost $30,000 it costs Medicare to cover his monthly dialysis treatments. On October 1st the Arizona State Legislature enacted a law that cut the budget to the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System or AHCCCS. The AHCCCS is Arizona's Medicaid agency that offers health care programs to serve Arizona residents. Individuals must meet certain income and other requirements to obtain services. This has affected nearly 100 peolpe who were awaiting transplant operations and many others who were receiving benefits.

USA, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, 22 July 2016 Police officers from many jurisdictions throughout the United States and Canada pay file into the funeral for Baton Rouge Police officer Matthew Gerald who was killed in the line of duty during a July shooting in which lone gunman Gavin Long shot and killed three Baton Rouge police officers. Thousands attended Gerald's funeral including officers from many different, cities and jurisdictions. The killing of these three officers came on the heels of a shooting rampage that killed 5 Dallas Police officers just ten days earlier. Gerald had been on the force less than a year, but had servied in United States Army and Marine Corps. Jon Lowenstein / NOOR

USA, Illinois, Chicago, 16 October 2016 Mary Almodovar fought tirelessly alongside her sister Gladys to free her nephew Roberto Almodovar. He was released from prison in April after 23 years in prison. Jon Lowenstein / NOOR

USA, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, 22 July 2016 Police officers from many jurisdictions throughout the United States and Canada pay file into the funeral for Baton Rouge Police officer Matthew Gerald who was killed in the line of duty during a July shooting in which lone gunman Gavin Long shot and killed three Baton Rouge police officers. Thousands attended Gerald's funeral including officers from many different, cities and jurisdictions. The killing of these three officers came on the heels of a shooting rampage that killed 5 Dallas Police officers just ten days earlier. Gerald had been on the force less than a year, but had servied in United States Army and Marine Corps. Jon Lowenstein / NOOR

USA, Illinois, Chicago, 22 September 2016 Ronnie Ramsey aka Rico Recklezz is a hip-hop artist who was born and raised on Chicago's South Side. Jon Lowenstein / NOOR

Advertisement on the former US Steel factory site for the new Lakeside Developments concept. In ‘Chi-Raq’ there is not one trauma unit despite the fact that the city leads the country in the number of homicides, with the majority occurring south of the Loop. As often follows with arrests, incarceration tends to ensue. As a result, more than 100,000 people go through the doors of Chicago’s Cook County Jail each year. However, many of these young men and women are blind to how the city’s methodical and systematic control of land, divides their neighborhoods into war zones. This, results in wars with each other, in a seemingly endless loop of “survival”. Although the violence is consistently reported in the news, to understand what’s at stake we must look far deeper than the latest crime scene. It’s vital that we also show the immense waste of human potential that’s being lost with each violent act. While the violence that has spread to many of Chicago’s most economically depressed neighborhoods is in all ways real, the never ending focus on the violence obscures a larger and far more significant truth: that the wholesale neglect has led to the practical destruction of these communities. The combination of the large scale industrial meltdown, political disinvestment, and the failure of the war on poverty during the 1970’s and 80’s led to communities like Chicago’s South Side falling on extremely hard times. Today, the failure of the war on poverty is clearly evident. The poverty rate for the majority African-Americans stands at 32.6 percent, the highest for the ten largest American cities, according to Chicago Muckrakers. The aftermath is evidenced by failing schools, inadequate public healthcare, mass foreclosures in the form of abandoned and decaying buildings, widespread, but rarely seen hunger, drug use, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and unusually high levels of social violence, incarceration rates and police brutality. Barack Obam

USA, Illinois, Chicago, 10 January 2017 On a blustery and cold January night thousands of people filed into the McCormick Center in Chicago to hear President Barack Obama's farewell speech. He started and ended his presidency in his adopted city and touched on the beginnings of his career as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side. As Donald Trump prepares to be innaugurated Obama's legacy is less secure than if he had handed the highest office to a Democrat but there is no doubt that Obama will be missed and remembered by a large portion of the American populace. Jon Lowenstein / NOOR