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.
“Black Lives Matter” just landed on the Fashion Week runway.
Designer Kerby Jean-Raymond’s collection for the Pyer Moss label launched earlier this month with gripping and now familiar videos of police violence. The choking death of Eric Garner. The teenage girl thrown to the ground outside a Texas pool party. The running down of a suspect as lights flashed. The smashing of a car window, and then cries.
The Black Lives Matter network will skip a presidential endorsement but keep up its political activism by confronting candidates about the treatment of African-Americans in the United States, one of the group's founders says.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 30, 2015 1:30 p.m.
Major League Baseball Hall-of-Famer Cal Ripken Jr. wants to make sure that kids on the South side of Chicago have the opportunity to engage in sports, something that can positively impact their futures.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 30, 2015 1:27 p.m.
The Chicago Police Department announced this week that three men were taken into custody in connection to a shooting that occurred in the 3000 block of W. Lexington Avenue.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 30, 2015 1:19 p.m.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will hold public hearings today, Sept. 30, to receive public comments from students, families, educators and the general public regarding new charter school proposals submitted under the 2014 new schools request for proposal. CPS is required to review new school proposals on an annual basis by state law.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced this week that a eligibility verification program conducted by the county’s Department of Risk Management could result in as much as $13 million in savings through the elimination of coverage for ineligible dependents.
