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