Chicago's eastern boundary is formed by Lake Michigan, and the city is divided by the Chicago River into three geographic sections: the North Side, the South Side and the West Side. These sections ...

CHICAGO — A Chicago contractor accused ... Prosecutors said the 67-year-old targeted elderly African American homeowners amid a massive home repair and reverse mortgage scheme.

(Robert McKeever) Missed Open House Chicago? Some small comfort: this year, the Chicago Architecture Center, which organizes Open House Chicago, organized ... Museum of the American Indian in ...

Every Black History Month and Juneteenth, pioneers in African American history are often mentioned like Dr. Martin Luther ...

The great Russian literary genius Alexander Pushkin dies on this day as a result of a duel. He is generally considered Russia’s great­est poet. Unlike many famous Euro­peans of color, Pushkin was ...

much of it built upon wartime tragedy and organized crime. This feature documentary will spotlight Hazel Scott, the most famous jazz virtuoso of her time and the first African American to have her ...

President Trump said he told King Abdullah II of Jordan during a phone call Saturday that he would like Jordan and Egypt to ...

They formed the centerpiece of the Louisiana delegation's table at the "What Works Way" exhibition at the Clinton summit, organized by Blanchard House Institute, which promotes African American ...

She’d gotten out, established roots in Chicago and risen up the detective ... systemic crisis that has ripped apart so many Native American communities. Solving one mystery, as Starr eventually ...

Carter, the agency’s first African-American ... organized a call for leadership changes, developing systems to track the unreliability of trains and holding protests outside CTA headquarters. “Today ...

In 1908, the first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert ... U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the nation's highest court, died ...