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September 15, 2011
OPINION - Our focus on math, science, and a double-period each year of English, equips students with the essential knowledge…
September 14, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - It will be updated daily, providing fodder for residents to evaluate their own neighborhoods, academics to study…
September 13, 2011
VIDEO - She may have her PhD now, but getting there wasn't easy for Chandra Gill. Gill has used her…
September 9, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama says she hopes to still be playing tennis when she's 90...
September 8, 2011
At 6 years old, he looked around his block in search of something that could be converted into a salable…
September 8, 2011
A West Side democratic state legislator has suggested after a heated town hall meeting that he may support a measure…
September 8, 2011
CHICAGO - A Chicago man who went to Indiana in search for work ended up having his life changed in…
September 7, 2011
OPINION - The former tennis prodigy, and up until recently, current tennis disappointment, was supposed to be the Tiger Woods…
September 6, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - But in the past 10 years as the city lost more than 17 percent of its black…
September 1, 2011
CHICAGO - The concert celebrates the 40th anniversary of the show, which started in Chicago in 1970 before moving to…
September 1, 2011
CHICAGO - Police say Jeremiah Griffin was hit on the 3000 block of West Columbus Avenue just after 5 p.m...
August 29, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Grammy-winning Blues musician David "Honey Boy" Edwards, believed to be the oldest surviving Delta bluesman and whose…
August 29, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Twenty-year-old Lapoleon Colbert was convicted in June of first-degree murder, the same charge four other suspects in…
August 17, 2011
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed that African-American candidates did not wait too long before filing a lawsuit…
August 10, 2011
CHICAGO - A man being questioned by Chicago police in a 6-year-old girl's shooting death has been released...
August 10, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Fifteen incarcerated men who claim they were sent to prison by confessions that were beaten, burned and…
August 8, 2011
VIDEO - Police have a "strong lead" in the case of a 6-year-old girl who was shot and killed while…
August 8, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - He celebrated his 75th birthday on July 30...
August 5, 2011
Black youths have been primary participants in many 'flash robs' - thefts organized on Twitter and Facebook. Some bloggers see…
August 2, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Delois Barrett Campbell, a member of the award-winning Barrett Sisters trio who electrified audiences worldwide with their…