The plaque marks the Near West Side home where Black Panther leaders Mark Clark and Fred Hampton were killed by police on Dec ...

Just as many young Americans watched the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and felt compelled to join the military, I watched the ...

2008: Mayor Richard M. Daley struck a deal to close a budget shortfall — the city got a paltry $1.16 billion upfront in ...

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Newly released transcripts of private interviews with a senior U.S. Border Patrol official and other authorities leading the immigration crackdown in the Chicago area reveal tense exchanges. The trans ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's family says that the civil rights leader has been released from a hospital where he was treated for a rare neurologic… ...

The majestic multi-instrumentalist changed the course of soul music and did it with Blackness as the focal point of his ...

On Dec. 4, 1991, after being abducted and held hostage for nearly seven years by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, Associated ...

On Dec. 4, 1991, after being abducted and held hostage for nearly seven years by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, Associated ...

A 12-year-old Robert Wadlow, later the world's tallest person, walks to Milton School ...

H. Rap Brown became one of many figures associated with the civil rights struggle who attracted the attention of the FBI, then headed by the notorious racist and red-baiter J. Edgar Hoover.