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September 28, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police say they're bolstering security around a high school on the city's South Side after a…
September 24, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities say a Chicago man who barricaded himself in a hospital for hours has been charged in…
September 8, 2009
Some kids in Chicago will go back to school in style, thanks to some local barbershops. It's all part of…
September 3, 2009
theGRIO VIDEO - Swine flu has had greater impact on blacks and Hispanics, according to records from the Boston Public…
August 20, 2009
Many Chicago parents have kept their children inside this summer for fear they will be killed playing on the street.
August 18, 2009
VIDEO -- Today trash haulers will play catch up in Chicago after letting garbage pile up on Monday. Sanitation workers,…
August 5, 2009
In the beginning of the summer, ESSENCE.com spoke to Phillip Jackson founder of the Black Star Project, a community outreach…
August 2, 2009
Harold Lucas was raised with the stories about his grandparents, who rode segregated railroad cars from Missouri to Chicago in…
July 28, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) -- In Michelle Obama's hometown, working women hustle back and forth from home to the office in stylish…
July 22, 2009
The investigation of the Burr Oak Cemetery in Cook County, Illinois outside Chicago is continuing and the FBI says they're…
July 21, 2009
Hundreds of young people from around the country recently gathered in Chicago to step up to the mic and express
July 20, 2009
An investigation by The Chicago Reporter found that Illinois is arguably the worst state in the nation for black senior…
July 14, 2009
In Chicago this weekend, a 12-year-old boy was critically wounded in a drive-by shooting, another victim what has seemed like…
July 14, 2009
The grisly work of the investigation is getting under way at a historic African-American cemetery as an FBI forensic team
July 10, 2009
The recent discovery of Emmett Till’s original casket in a rusting shed, yards away from where he was laid to
July 10, 2009
ALSIP, Illinois (AP) -- While Till's grave site was not disturbed, Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators found his original iconic…
July 9, 2009
Four workers were charged Thursday in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic…
July 9, 2009
Families whose loved ones were buried at Chicago’s Burr Oak Cemetery are flocking to the grounds to find out if
July 8, 2009
After spending nearly two decades behind bars, two Chicago men finally got a chance to smell freedom today. The Illinois
June 23, 2009
A federal jury has awarded more than $21 million to a Chicago man who spent nearly 12 years in prison…