Illinois

All Articles

January 19, 2023
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services wrongfully incarcerated hundreds of children in juvenile detention after a court...
January 18, 2023
Kevin Warren, former Big Ten commissioner, is ready to tackle a new challenge as president and CEO of the Chicago…
COP26 Adaptation, Loss and Damage - Day Nine
November 11, 2022
The firm building the Obama Presidential Center suspended operations Thursday after a noose was found at the site, and it…
November 6, 2022
Anti-Black hate crimes in Chicago have risen 50% in 2022, and possibly more due to underreporting, according to recent reports…
Rockwood School District
October 30, 2022
A high school math teacher in Illinois has been fired after being recorded calling a 15-year-old Black student the N-word.
courtroom thegrio.com
October 21, 2022
A white woman from Illinois who was charged with a hate crime for a 2020 confrontation with Black cyclists was…
October 9, 2022
Sergio Mims, longtime film historian and cofounder of the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Black Harvest Film Festival, has died. He…
October 6, 2022
The CPD was persuaded to modify its terminology to refer to community members as "persons," not "subjects," "suspects" and "offenders."
September 23, 2022
A former Chicago police officer has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black man…
September 13, 2022
R. Kelly’s lead attorney gets her chance to deliver closing arguments to federal jurors in Chicago a day after a…
Rockwood School District
September 9, 2022
A federal judge has approved a $9.25 million settlement by the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union in…
September 8, 2022
Co-defendant Derrell McDavid said he saw no early signs Kelly sought minors for sex, blaming those hoping to profit off…
August 31, 2022
Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago after presenting two weeks of testimony.
August 27, 2022
Elections officials are sending applications for permanent permission to vote by mail to each of the state’s 8 million registered…
August 26, 2022
A former girlfriend of the R&B singer wept on the witness stand as she testified that Kelly's manager told her…
August 25, 2022
Defense lawyers at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial in Chicago sought Wednesday to portray a key government witness as a…
August 24, 2022
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot detests a political action committee ad she claims makes her skin appear darker and employs racist…
August 24, 2022
Charles Freeman testified Tuesday that Kelly reached out to him in 2001 to ask him to hunt down a VHS…
Bobby Rush
August 20, 2022
In an interview theGrio, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush reflects on his political career and activism rooted in the civil rights…
August 19, 2022
A woman testified Thursday that R. Kelly sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 and that it…