Heroin and prescription pain pills are among the top drug threats in the U.S., according to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s latest drug threat assessment.
A judge ordered Chicago Police to make public by Nov. 25 a dashboard video of a white police officer shooting an African-American teen 16 times.
PHILADELPHIA— Jazz great Wynton Marsalis has been honored with an award named for a pioneering opera singer.
By: Evan F. Moore - November 18, 2015 2:52 p.m.
Kim Foxx, former chief of staff to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, believes that the criminal justice system in Cook County could use some shaking up. And the former Cabrini Green Housing Complex resident believes that she is the person to unseat current Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez.
By: Norman Parish - November 18, 2015 2:45 p.m.
Dorian Lofton regularly rides the Metra train from his home in Matteson, Ill., to his job as a teacher in downtown Chicago.
By: Norman Parish - November 18, 2015 2:39 p.m.
Returning to his former high school in Harvey, Ill., Ill. State Sen. Napoleon Harris (Dist.-15th) officially announced Tuesday he is jumping into the U.S Senate race.
By: Evan F. Moore - November 18, 2015 2:34 p.m.
Chicago Mayor Emanuel announced this week that the City’s Debt Relief Program has begun.
The program, passed as part of the 2016 budget process, allows individuals and businesses who owe debt to the City to pay what they owe without additional costs.
By: Evan F. Moore - November 18, 2015 2:31 p.m.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) recently hosted an assembly of U.S. diplomats, development specialists and economic empowerment experts during a forum entitled “Going Far Together: Helping the African Diaspora Build Their American Dreams and Helping African Nations Realize Their Potential”.
By: Norman Parish - November 18, 2015 2:19 p.m.
Melissa Petty enjoys saving money and conserving energy: She turns off lights when she isn’t using them and doesn’t overuse her home’s furnace or air conditioner.
The upcoming 2016 season will be the first for Hampton University’s lacrosse team as a member of the NCAA Division I tier. The team that initially started out as a club team, will be captained by a native of Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood.
Midfielder Jeremy Triplett, a senior and marketing major, had never heard of lacrosse, despite attending college in a part of the country where the sports in prevalent.
By: Norman Parish - November 18, 2015 12:43 p.m.
The perception of a gang war is hurting businesses along 79th Street in Chicago, said a group of Chatham area business owners.
PARIS— France made an unprecedented demand Tuesday that its European Union allies support its military action against the Islamic State group after the attacks in Paris — a request that came as France launched new airstrikes on the militants' stronghold in Syria.
By: Norman Parish - November 18, 2015 12:04 p.m.
Police brutality is something that young blacks not only read about in newspapers -- they actually live it, suggests a new study.
Just more than half of African American millennials polled for the study indicated that they or someone they knew suffered harassment or violence from police, according to the “Black Millennials in America” report.
By: Evan F. Moore - November 13, 2015 12:16 p.m.
University of Missouri (U of M) alum Jeffery Beckham, is following the events at his alma mater as closely as he can. He is not surprised by the protests over racial tensions and other issues there.
Although you can’t stop time, the right type and amount of physical activity can help stave off many age-related health problems.
The Securities and Exchange Commission last month adopted final rules to permit companies to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding. The Commission also voted to propose amendments to existing Securities Act rules to facilitate intrastate and regional securities offerings. The new rules and proposed amendments are designed to assist smaller companies with capital formation and provide investors with additional protections.
The owner of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times offered last week to loan $3 million to the bankrupt owner of a rival Southern California newspaper, a move that could set the stage for a bidding war.
Chicago-based Tribune Publishing told a federal bankruptcy judge it's willing to loan Freedom Communications the money for day-to-day operations, with the money counting in any bid Tribune might make for Freedom's assets.
By: Norman Parish - November 11, 2015 4:22 p.m.
Willie Lipsey is trailblazing as a two-sport athlete at Governors State University in University Park, Ill.
Lipsey ran the fastest time for the college’s cross country team. The 21-year-old junior also starts as a guard on the school’s basketball team.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Forrest Claypool announced last week the recommendations for closure of four chronically underperforming charter schools that are currently on the Academic Warning List and are either up for a renewal or have failed to implement required remediation plans.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson last week stood by his belief that Egypt's great pyramids were built by the Biblical figure Joseph to store grain, an assertion dismissed by experts who say its accepted science they were tombs for pharaohs.
