Chicago

Choosing something to retire for 40 days during Lent varies depending on the person, but members at First United Church of Oak Park in suburban Chicago decided on "fasting from whiteness" by refusing to perform hymns composed and/or written by white musicians.

The latest act of racism on school grounds involves a teacher at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago that got himself suspended after an altercation with another teacher over a Black doll that appeared to be hanging from a string in his classroom for all students to see.

Sentencing has finally been revealed for Jussie Smollett's guilty verdict in his infamous hate crime hoax case: 150 days in jail, 30 months of probation and $120,000 in restitution for the overtime spent investigating the case by Chicago police officers.

Actor Jussie Smollett is scheduled to return to court on Thursday, where he will learn if a judge will order him locked up for his conviction of lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that he orchestrated himself or allow him to remain free.

The subject of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's gender politics came to a head again recently after being hit with a defamation lawsuit that claims she got a little "fresh at the mouth" during a dispute with an attorney, going to the lengths of stating that she has, in her own words, "the biggest dick in Chicago."

A teacher of 41 years at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School in Chicago, Illinois pretty much fired herself when she decided to use the controversial N-word during a lesson on racist sports teams names in her World History class, then repeated it during an administrative meeting.

The NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, on Tuesday urged Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring federal civil rights charges against the white Chicago police officer who fatally shot Black teenager Laquan McDonald.

A Chicago man serving 54 years for a gang-related shooting saw his prison sentence come to an end last week after it was discovered that his twin brother committed the murder all along.

Damari Perry, the 6-year-old North Chicago boy who was reported missing by his family, was killed by them on his birthday and his body was discarded like trash. 

Thousands of Chicago students remained out of school for a second straight day Thursday after leaders of the nation’s third-largest school district failed to resolve a deepening clash with the influential teachers union over COVID-19 safety protocols.

In 2021 alone, the city of Chicago recorded its most deadliest year since the 1990s after the Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed that 836 of the more than 1,000 homicides it handled occurred in Chi-Town.

Former President Barack Obama recently made a surprise visit to a Chicago-based YMCA community center.