By: Deborah Bayliss - March 18, 2015 4:07 p.m.
Chicago and the nation along with friends, and godchildren including President Barack Obama, and members and volunteers of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, are mourning the death and acknowledging the life and legacy of Rev. Willie Taplin Barrow. The longtime, Civil Rights activist, died in her home on March 12, with her pastor Rev. Jerald January, Sr., senior pastor of Vernon Park Church of God; Atty. Rev. Janette Wilson, Assistant General Counsel for Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and Operation PUSH Inc., and others by her side.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A fraternity at Penn State University has been suspended as police investigate allegations that members used a private, invitation-only Facebook page to post photos of nude and partly nude women, some apparently asleep or passed out.
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The protesters who spent eight months pressing for changes in Ferguson's police practices after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown take credit for this week's resignations of the city manager and the police chief.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 11, 2015 4:41 p.m.
Looking for a worth-while way to spend your free time? If so, keep in mind that South Suburban College (SSC) is in need of volunteer tutors for its Adult Volunteer Literacy Tutoring Program.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A jury awarded Marvin Gaye's children $7.3 million on Tuesday after determining singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father's music to create "Blurred Lines," the biggest hit song of 2013.
By: Lee Edwards - March 11, 2015 4:25 p.m.
The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) graduated more than 130 new recruits for its first cadet class of 2015.
The new correctional officers finished a six-week, 240-hour Security Training Program on February 13th. During training, the cadets participated in intensive instruction courses that include search procedures, control tactics, fire emergency, discipline, drug awareness, employee ethics, professionalism, report writing, radio communication, and how to use a firearm.
On March 3, Ill. Gov. Bruce Rauner announced members of the newly created Illinois State Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform. Led by the Governor’s Public Safety Director Rodger Heaton, the commission is made of up experts from various fields within the criminal justice system and state legislators.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 11, 2015 3:33 p.m.
One of Chicago’s own literary giants, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American Pulitzer Prize winner for her second book of poetry, titled, Annie Allen, began writing and publishing as a teenager, eventually achieving national fame for her 1945 collection, A Street in Bronzeville.
By: Lee Edwards - March 11, 2015 11:38 a.m.
The CIRCLE Foundation is having its 6th annual CIRCLE Foundation Benefit Gala at Alhambra Palace, 1240 W. Randolph St., on March 22, 2015, as celebration of student success at Innovations High School (IHS).
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 11, 2015 11:28 a.m.
A former executive and wealth manager at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, Delgado is a certified financial planner, chartered retirement planning counselor and was named one of the country’s top financial planners for 2007 and 2008 by the Consumers’ Research Council of America.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 11, 2015 11:27 a.m.
A global logistics company that focuses on custom brokerage and trade compliance, will locate its new U.S. headquarters in Chicago by the end of 2015, bringing the number of new company headquarters located in Chicago to 32.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 11, 2015 11:18 a.m.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a host of Chicago Aldermen and the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced the removal of 50 red light enforcement cameras across the city at locations that reportedly have seen a significant reduction of serious crashes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will hold off on announcing the location for his future library until after Chicago’s runoff election for mayor.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma's president expelled two students Tuesday after he said they were identified as leaders of a racist chant captured on video during a fraternity event.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The president of the University of Oklahoma severed the school's ties with a national fraternity on Monday and ordered that its on-campus house be shuttered after several members took part in a racist chant caught on video.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The police situation in Ferguson, Missouri, was "oppressive and abusive," President Barack Obama said Friday, as he prepared to commemorate a half-century since the historic civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama.
Global beauty brand, Black Opal introduces a new multimedia campaign called "I Define My Beauty." The new campaign is aimed at empowering, engaging and inspiring women of all complexions to express their individuality and embrace their unique look and defy stereotypes of beauty.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office, in partnership with the Cook County Office of the President, is exploring the implementation of an advanced visitation technology which would provide friends and family members of Cook County Jail inmates with another option for communicating with their loved ones.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is spending $1 billion to make changes to how it pays and trains U.S. hourly workers as the embattled retailer tries to reshape the image that its stores offer dead-end jobs.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 4, 2015 4:16 p.m.
A twenty-year old South Suburban man was recently sentenced to a 26-year prison term for intentionally setting fire to an apartment building last year that resulted in serious burns to his five month-old infant daughter and the child’s grandmother, according to the Office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez.
