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.
A day before the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater begin the South African leg of their international tour, the company's dancers taught a master class in Johannesburg's historic Soweto township early in September.
The Apollo Theater in Harlem inducted comics Richard Pryor, Moms Mabley and Redd Foxx into its walk of fame.
By: Norman Parish - October 8, 2015 2:43 p.m.
Three college administrators have been identified as finalists to replace Dr. Wayne Watson who is retiring as president of Chicago State University.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 8, 2015 2:29 p.m.
Consumers often times have an emotional attachment to places where they shop. Sometimes, they even give nicknames to their favorite shopping centers.
Evergreen Plaza, which is scheduled for demolition this week, was nicknamed “The Plaza.”
By: Evan F. Moore - October 8, 2015 2:26 p.m.
The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) released a draft last week of the school district annual guidelines for taking school actions, including co-locations or re-assigning boundary changes to expand access to a high-quality education for all students.
By: Norman Parish - October 8, 2015 2:08 p.m.
Persha Chew, who lost her sister and mother to gun violence last week, was struggling on how to tell her young nephew that his mother was never coming home.
The 26-year-old Chicago South Side woman said she also wondered how to celebrate his birthday.
By: Norman Parish - October 8, 2015 2 p.m.
A principal was selected to head a high school in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood that reopens next year after protests, including a hunger strike.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 8, 2015 1:49 p.m.
The Chicago Bulls announced last week plans to commemorate 50 years of the franchise’s existence throughout the upcoming 2015-16 season.
By: Norman Parish - October 8, 2015 1:43 p.m.
The Chicago City Council’s Black Caucus demanded the firing of Police Supt. Garry McCarthy, saying he hasn’t done enough to battle crime or promote black officers.
“We have been troubled by the superintendent’s lack of responsiveness to our concerns and requests as we face this (crime) crisis,” said Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th Ward), president of the caucus.
By: Norman Parish - October 8, 2015 1:36 p.m.
Honor roll student Da’Ione Fields wants to see his community improve. On weekends, the 18-year-old Gary high school senior sometimes voluntarily boards up abandoned buildings.
