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January 20, 2011
Former President Bill Clinton was in Chicago yesterday, throwing his support behind his former aide Rahm Emanuel in the city's…
January 19, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Judge Sheehan ruled if the boy breaks any rules while incarcerated, he will serve 30 years in…
January 12, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Again and again defense attorneys and prosecutors played the same graphic video of 16-year-old Derrion Albert being…
January 11, 2011
In 1983, Fred Rice became the first African-American permanently appointed police superintendent for the Chicago Police Department. Rice was appointed…
January 10, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Deng arrived at the office-turned-polling station on Chicago's North Side to a hero's welcome, drawing cheers from…
January 7, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Black leaders believed she was the best person to reach outside the black community to contend against…
January 4, 2011
CHICAGO - Of the dogs recovered from the home, in the 700 block of South 3rd Avenue, one was a…
January 3, 2011
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Rock-and-roll legend Chuck Berry has returned home to suburban St. Louis after falling ill with exhaustion…
January 3, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun has become the 'consensus' black candidate in Chicago's mayoral race...
January 2, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - An agent for Chuck Berry says exhaustion was the reason the rock-and-roll legend felt ill before a…
January 2, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Rock-and-roll legend Chuck Berry felt ill and was checked out by ambulance medics before a show Saturday…
January 1, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, has emerged as the…
December 28, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) - Davis warned the ex-president on Tuesday that he could jeopardize his "long and fruitful relationship" with the…
December 28, 2010
OPINION - Having more than one African-American competitor almost certainly guarantees that Chicago will not have a black mayor this…
December 26, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) - Jackson has been dogged by links to the corruption case against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and…
December 23, 2010
CHICAGIO (AP) - He urged other African-American candidates to follow his lead and rally what he called a divided black…
December 20, 2010
At first, the nurse thought he had a Q-Tip stuck down there, but pulled out a pearl instead, the newspaper…
December 17, 2010
OPINION - Meeks is dead wrong to think that blacks are the only minorities, and the only people facing discrimination.…
December 16, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Rev. James Meeks made the controversial statement on city contracts as he campaigned for education reform on…
December 8, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) - As the verdict was read, the teen's aunt ran out of the courtroom yelling "Oh lord, Oh…