By: Norman Parish - October 21, 2015 2:29 p.m.
When Thornton Township Supervisor Frank Zuccarelli, watched television coverage of the fatal church shootings in Charleston, S.C., this past summer, he expected an angry response.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 21, 2015 2:18 p.m.
The Beverly Unitarian Church, located at 10244 S. Longwood Dr. in Chicago, made headlines recently after promoting the Black Lives Matter movement on its digital sign. Now the church has decided to focus on other ways to address the matter of alleged police brutality against African Americas, an issue that has divided the nation.
By: Norman Parish - October 21, 2015 1 p.m.
Area residents could pay more for cable television service and a variety of other recreational activities if a budget proposal by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is approved.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 21, 2015 12:53 p.m.
Alexander Buckles, the Supplier Diversity Analyst for the McCormick Place, was the guest speaker at the Chatham Business Association’s (CBA) monthly meeting last week.
Will Smith is getting jiggy with music again.
The Grammy-winning rapper and Oscar-nominated actor appears on a remix of Colombian band Bomba Estereo’s song, “Fiesta.”electro sounds, on a recent trip to Colombia. He then asked the group to collaborate.
LAS VEGAS, Janet Jackson cancelled her Oct. 9 and Oct. 10 shows at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino to rest her vocal chords, and the Las Vegas stop on her “Unbreakable” tour will move to a new 20,000-seat arena in May.
A push to overhaul criminal sentencing is prompting the early release of thousands of federal drug prisoners, including some whom prosecutors once described as threats to society, according to an Associated Press review of court records.
By: Norman Parish - October 15, 2015 3:12 p.m.
When Chris Zorich was a freshman at Notre Dame University, he struggled in the classroom.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 15, 2015 1:09 p.m.
When Michele Hoskins started her syrup business in her mother’s basement 31 years ago, she had no idea that she would end up in a Chicago area hall of fame for entrepreneurship.
By: Norman Parish - October 15, 2015 1 p.m.
He became a high profile figure locally as principal of two Chicago area schools and headmaster of another one. He helped stabilize enrollment at North Alabama University in Florence. And now, Chicago State University is looking to Thomas J. Calhoun Jr. for leadership.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 15, 2015 12:54 p.m.
When it comes to baseball loyalty in Chicago, it’s pretty cut and dry. South siders are White Sox fans, and North siders are Cubs fans…usually.
By: Norman Parish - October 15, 2015 12:46 p.m.
Chicago should host a White House conference to end gun violence in the city and in the entire nation, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. said.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 15, 2015 12:41 p.m.
Olatunji Oboi Reed, the president and co-founder of Slow Roll Chicago, a bicycle movement that aims to transform lives and improve the condition of communities, was chosen this week by the U.S. Department of Transportation as a 2015 White House Transportation Champion of Change.
By: Norman Parish - October 15, 2015 12:33 p.m.
Activist Tio Hardiman, who recently announced a run for Congress, is instead challenging Dorothy Brown for her job as Clerk of Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill.
By: Norman Parish - October 15, 2015 12:25 p.m.
Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting bribes in an alleged kickback scheme.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 8, 2015 5:04 p.m.
The Stony Island Trust & Savings Bank, a longtime staple of Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, recently reintroduced itself under a new name to another generation of residents.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 8, 2015 4:54 p.m.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) held a news conference this week at Roosevelt University in Chicago to discuss a landmark, bipartisan agreement he helped broker in the Senate to overhaul the nation’s criminal justice system. The bill tackles the mass incarceration that has disproportionately impacted minority communities across the nation and weighed heavily on the nation’s finances.
By: Norman Parish - October 8, 2015 4:46 p.m.
An Alabama college administrator with ties to Chicago will replace Dr. Wayne Watson who is retiring as president of Chicago State University.
By: Norman Parish - October 8, 2015 4:38 p.m.
Addison Jackson, Jr., an Army veteran who worked as an executive at a St. Louis bank, struggled when he returned to college four years ago.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 8, 2015 4:07 p.m.
Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood has long been an enclave to many of the city’s law enforcement officers. Ironically, the rallying cry of an organization that has chastised the police for some of their tactics, prominently landed on a digital scrolling sign of a church in Beverly.
