The commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, has agreed to sit for an interview with the House Oversight Committee looking into Jeffrey Epstein’s network of friends and associates. Lutnick, a billionaire ...

Memorial services honoring the life of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will be expanded beyond Chicago with events in Washington, D.C., and South Carolina. The late civil rights ...

The New Orleans version, Mardi Gras — "Fat Tuesday" — apparently goes back as far as 1699. The first Mardi Gras parade was ...

Despite pleading guilty to murder, Desmond Burks insisted he didn’t kill Detroit neurosurgeon Dr. Devon Hoover during his sentencing hearing. He was still sentenced to decades behind bars.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon. A presidential candidate. A global leader. But for the people living on tree-lined South Constance Avenue in South Shore’s Jackson Park Highlands, ...

A new gun violence study shows Fayetteville faces deep financial, emotional and community costs—and residents want prevention over policing tech.

*The news that civil rights icon the reverend Jesse Jackson passed has ignited an avalanche of media and public commentary, reflections, and tributes to him. Jackson, for a lengthy period, battled a ...

To call Gordon Parks one thing would be an impossibility.

Former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are among the big names who will be in Chicago Friday for Rev. Jesse Jackson's funeral.

Officials with the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition announced funeral arrangements for the Chicago-based civil rights icon and presidential candidate beginning next Wednesday.

Two men were charged with felony firearm crimes following a shooting at a church building.Alleged Tongan Crip Gang members Ryan Daniel Toutai, aka “Lost One,” 3 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two people are in custody after a stolen car's driver fled from a Cicero police traffic stop before crashing and seriously injuring another driver on Chicago's West Side on Monday ...