Homan Square: A portrait of Chicago’s detainees

The Guardian began investigating Homan Square, a secretive Chicago police warehouse, in February 2015.

After launching a transparency lawsuit, the Guardian has forced the Chicago police department to disclose internal records. They help to tell the stories of thousands of detainees.

These documents, still incomplete, provide the fullest scale yet of police detentions at Homan Square: the people, their race, their pickup locations, the charges … and the mayor.

Here’s what we know now — and what we still don’t — from the Homan Square disclosures.

New records acquired by the Guardian reveal 7,185 arrests of people taken to Homan Square between 5 August 2004 and 30 June 2015.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-detainees