CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel has doubled his lead over challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia in the past three weeks, showing strong momentum a week before the city's first-ever mayoral runoff election, according to a Chicago Tribune poll published Tuesday.
By: Deborah Bayliss - April 1, 2015 12:56 p.m.
Chicago State University Prof. Jonathan Jackson, told the Chicago Citizen Newspaper that he and his family are elated that his older brother, former U.S. Congressman, Jesse Jackson, Jr. was released from a federal prison to a Washington, D.C. area halfway house.
By: Deborah Bayliss - April 1, 2015 12:52 p.m.
Driving or walking underneath viaducts in Chicago can be a scary experience taking into consideration the existence of potholes, crumbling sidewalks, poor lighting and trash. Additionally, many of them appear dilapidated and are in need of a good coat of paint.
By: Lee Edwards - April 1, 2015 12:45 p.m.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is expanding the city's Small Business Opportunity Center Program (SBOCP), a comprehensive financial service initiative for small businesses, via new centers that will be located throughout the city. The centers will maintain a $5 million budget designated for small business loans, with authorization to loan out up to $250,000 each.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- Members of a University of Oklahoma fraternity apparently learned a racist chant that recently got their chapter disbanded during a national leadership cruise four years ago that was sponsored by the fraternity's national administration, the university's president said Friday.
Statement from National President and CEO of the American Lung Association Harold P. Wimmer, in response to the IOM Report “Public Health Implications of Raising the Minimum Age of Legal Access to Tobacco Products”
Remember superstar phenom Mone’ Davis who was striking out player after player in the 2014 Little League World Series?
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By: Lee Edwards - March 27, 2015 12:20 p.m.
The 21st Annual Black Women’s Expo (BWE) continues its legacy of celebrating African American women and girls. This year’s Expo will once again be held at McCormick Place, 2301 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Dr., from March 27-29.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 27, 2015 12:16 p.m.
South Suburban Chicago mayors, at least one U.S. elected official and area clergy, came together March 11 at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, to launch Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network’s unprecedented “Mayors for Hope,” an initiative to deliver awareness and education regarding organ donation and transplantation to residents in their respective municipalities and to dispel myths, especially in African American communities associated with organ donation.
By: Lee Edwards - March 27, 2015 12:07 p.m.
Congresswoman Robin Kelly (Dist.- 2nd) released a report that was released to her last week, by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which concludes that the proposed South Suburban Airport would have “minimal impact” on current operations at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, 10000 W. O'Hare Ave., and Chicago Midway International Airport, 5700 Cicero Ave. It also concludes that metro-Chicago airspace is capable of handling a third major airport.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An Illinois Army National Guard soldier vowed to bring "the flames of war to the heart" of America if he was unable to get to the Middle East to join the Islamic State group, and his cousin bragged that he could kill at least 150 people in a terrorist attack in the U.S., federal prosecutors said Thursday in announcing their arrests.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Facebook is trying to mold its Messenger app into a more versatile communications hub as smartphones create new ways for people to connect with friends and businesses beyond the walls of the company's ubiquitous social network.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 25, 2015 12:56 p.m.
A 23-year veteran of the Public Defender Law Office of Cook County is Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s choice to replace outgoing Cook County Public Defender, Abishi Cunningham, who headed the Law Office for the past six years.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 25, 2015 12:40 p.m.
Have you ever experienced someone crawling underneath your car, in the middle of the night, to cut and steal your vehicle’s catalytic converter, and then having to pay the expenses associated with replacing it? If so, you’ll be happy to hear, the Chicago City Council addressed catalytic converter thefts. The introduction of an ordinance designed to combat this problem that has long plagued Chicago residents.
