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A search is underway this week for a teen girl who Chicago police say has been missing from her home on the city’s South Side ...
Black Yacht Weekend sails back into Chicago for a hot and vibrant summer celebration along the shoreline of Lake Michigan.
Black women were the most victimized group in Chicago last year, accounting for 35% of assaults and 38% of batteries. Black women also accounted for 34% of 146 kidnappings and half of the 19 human ...
The miniseries, which premieres Tuesday on Disney+, filmed locally and features Chicago talent on- and off-screen.
The 2023-24 Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) results highlight a 10.5% increase in proficiency since 2021-22, with Black students’ growth in English Language Arts surpassing overall ...
The Chicago History Museum (1601 N. Clark) celebrates Black history year-round in a variety of ways, including hosting publicly accessible online exhibitions on topics such as Harold Washington ...
The 45-year-old South Sider, single mother with a master's degree in social work from the University of Chicago is the most decorated Black athlete in the CrossFit world. Akinwale embraced ...
CHICAGO — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests. So when the ...
Tolton conducted Mass in the basement of the Old St. Mary’s Church in the late 1800s, and the archbishop granted him jurisdiction over all Chicago Black Catholics.
Chicago’s Black-owned whiskey brands are breaking down barriers in the alcohol industry Launched within the last four years, Alexander James, Bull Young Bourbon and Renard Whiskey are carving ...
Chicago gangster-turned-community activist Tyrone Muhammad joined "Fox & Friends" to react to comments made by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson that Trump is a threat to Black families.
At 9 years old, for the first time in her life, Lacey realized what it meant to be a racial minority in America. From then on, she was one of only a few Black students in her classes, she said ...