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Illinois Department of Children and Family Services wrongfully incarcerated hundreds of children in juvenile detention after a court...
Kevin Warren, former Big Ten commissioner, is ready to tackle a new challenge as president and CEO of the Chicago…
The firm building the Obama Presidential Center suspended operations Thursday after a noose was found at the site, and it…
Anti-Black hate crimes in Chicago have risen 50% in 2022, and possibly more due to underreporting, according to recent reports…
A high school math teacher in Illinois has been fired after being recorded calling a 15-year-old Black student the N-word.
A white woman from Illinois who was charged with a hate crime for a 2020 confrontation with Black cyclists was…
Sergio Mims, longtime film historian and cofounder of the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Black Harvest Film Festival, has died. He…
The CPD was persuaded to modify its terminology to refer to community members as "persons," not "subjects," "suspects" and "offenders."
A former Chicago police officer has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black man…
R. Kelly’s lead attorney gets her chance to deliver closing arguments to federal jurors in Chicago a day after a…
A federal judge has approved a $9.25 million settlement by the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union in…
Co-defendant Derrell McDavid said he saw no early signs Kelly sought minors for sex, blaming those hoping to profit off…
Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago after presenting two weeks of testimony.
Elections officials are sending applications for permanent permission to vote by mail to each of the state’s 8 million registered…
A former girlfriend of the R&B singer wept on the witness stand as she testified that Kelly's manager told her…
Defense lawyers at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial in Chicago sought Wednesday to portray a key government witness as a…
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot detests a political action committee ad she claims makes her skin appear darker and employs racist…
Charles Freeman testified Tuesday that Kelly reached out to him in 2001 to ask him to hunt down a VHS…
In an interview theGrio, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush reflects on his political career and activism rooted in the civil rights…
A woman testified Thursday that R. Kelly sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 and that it…