ProPublica’s journalists live and work all over the country. We’re both based in Chicago, and, along with several of our colleagues, we are focused on telling stories about the Midwest. In recent years, the two of us have teamed up to cover ticketing and the use of seclusion and restraint in Illinois school districts.
But if you’ve seen our work lately, you know we’ve been reporting on troubling conditions at an unregulated, for-profit boarding…