Black History Month is an opportunity to reflect on the past, celebrate the present, and inspire the future. In Chicago, the public library serves as a hub ...
In the past few days, police have arrested suspects in two of Chicago’s most horrific murder cases last year. Arrested Friday was Deron Wolfe, 19, who was charged with first-degree murder and armed ...
A second man accused in the fatal shooting of two Chicago high school students in the Loop last year is now facing felony charges. Chicago police said 20-year-old James Allison, a ...
A churro shop in Pilsen closed its doors yesterday. So did a Mexican grocer in Chicago Heights. The owner of several Mexican restaurants in Elgin, himself the son of immigrants, shut his business for ...
Frustrated that the American Railway Union had refused to accept Black railway workers, which by 1925 had swelled to more that 10,000 porters, Randolph led a push to form the Brotherhood of Sleeping ...