​From July through October 2023, a team of sociologists from the University of Illinois at Chicago interviewed 23 residents of Chicago about their experiences with mental health crisis response. In partnership with the Collaborative for Community Wellness, we set out to learn about people’s actual experiences with mental health services and crisis response in our city.… Read more

Using publicly available data through The City of Chicago’s Office of the Inspector General, we plotted 911 behavioral health call rates per 100,000 residents between January 1, 2019 and February 8, 2022. The rates are for the entire period of 3.1 years rather than an annual rate. We displayed the data by Chicago ward, split… Read more