CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago City Council on Wednesday approved a $5.5 million reparations package for the victims of the city’s notorious police torture scandal that also includes a formal apology and a promise to teach schoolchildren about one of the darkest chapters in Chicago’s history. The city has already paid more than $100 million […]
Provident Hospital was the first Black-owned and operated hospital in the United States, founded by pioneering Black surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. The facility was opened on May 4, 1891 with the combined support of religious, community and business leaders in Chicago and was also the first racially integrated hospital. According to Provident Hospital’s […]
Brandy sat down with Wendy Williams to promote “Chicago” and her new BET sitcom, but not before she hinted about what happened to her engagement…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has chosen his hometown of Chicago to host his future presidential library, two individuals with knowledge of the decision said Thursday, placing the permanent monument to his legacy in the city that launched his improbable ascent to the White House. Obama’s library will be built on Chicago’s South Side, […]
Deshawn Isabelle, 15, charged in Blue Line sexual assault, robbery http://t.co/c9J7r3fLpJ — Around Oak Park (@AroundOakPark) April 23, 2015 The mother of a 15-year-old turned the…
Chicago police routinely violate the constitutional rights of mostly African-Americans who have not committed any crime, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week, reports…
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge’s surprise acquittal of an off-duty Chicago police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed woman called into question prosecutors’ decision not to charge the man with murder, and set off protests for a second day Tuesday. That the officer shot Rekia Boyd, 22, was never in dispute. But the […]
A weekend of violence hit the Windy City, as three people were shot near the University of Chicago campus. Thirty other individuals were also involved in separate…
The police officer who fatally shot 22-year-old Rekia Boyd in 2012 when he fired into a crowd was found not guilty Monday afternoon, the Chicago…
Amid a federal and state probe into the violent death of a Black Chicago teen who was shot 16 times by an officer last fall,…
CHICAGO (AP) — Rahm Emanuel won re-election Tuesday as voters in Chicago’s first mayoral runoff decided that, despite his brusque management style, the former White House chief of staff was best equipped to deal with the many dire challenges facing the nation’s third-largest city. Emanuel was forced to campaign furiously across the city to beat […]
CHICAGO (AP) — An aunt of a convicted murderer who was captured in Chicago after a nearly three-day manhunt was charged Saturday with giving her nephew information that helped him escape from an eastern Illinois jail where she had once worked. Authorities say Kamron T. Taylor escaped Wednesday from the Jerome Combs Detention Center in […]
