Invisible Institute

The Invisible Institute is an independent journalism production nonprofit on the South Side of Chicago that works to enhance the capacity of citizens to exercise co-responsibility with the government to maintain human rights and redress violations of constitutional rights. This award for general operating support enables the Invisible Institute to engage the public in exposing inequity in Chicago communities that historically have been most acutely affected by systemic violations of rights. It sources its stories, series, and podcasts through journalistic investigations and data gathered from government and other sources.

The Invisible Institute is an independent journalism production nonprofit on the South Side of Chicago that works to enhance the capacity of citizens to exercise co-responsibility with government to maintain human rights and redress violations of constitutional rights. Specifically, it supports efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department through documentation, disclosure, transparency, and investigative reporting. This X-Grant supports fees for training in financial and data management trainings for the staff of Invisible Institute. 

The Invisible Institute is an independent journalism production nonprofit on the South Side of Chicago that works to enhance the capacity of citizens to exercise co-responsibility with government to maintain human rights and redress violations of constitutional rights. Specifically, it supports efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department through documentation, disclosure, transparency, and investigative reporting. This award for general operating support enables the Invisible Institute to engage the public in exposing inequity in Chicago communities that historically have been most acutely affected by systemic violations of rights.   

The Invisible Institute supports efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department through documentation, disclosure, transparency, and investigative reporting. The Institute obtains police records through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, and releases police abuse allegations in an easily searchable online database, called the Citizens Police Data Project. (CPDP). The CPDP provides individual citizens with data and tools to obtain official records, and documents the experiences of young Chicagoans’ interaction with officers, facilitating the public’s ability to advocate for reform. With this award, the Invisible Institute incorporates nine years of police misconduct settlement and lawsuit data into the CPDP in collaboration with The Chicago Reporter.