Built in 1880 by a congregation comprised of formerly enslaved people and their descendants, the church is an enduring, ...

Since 2021, when Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill to commemorate June 19, 1865, the date when the last enslaved Black people in ...

Twenty boys from The Outlet created their own quilt squares and artist statements telling their personal stories about what ...

In 2023, out of 11,516 traffic stops – a 54% increase since 2021 – 51% of the drivers involved were Black. Black people make ...

Look out, folks, June is coming in hot with all kinds of live music happening here, there and everywhere. Let's get going and ...

The Culture Experience was founded two years ago by the mother-daughter duo of Alice Ivy-Wilson and Haley Williams as an ...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office is appealing that decision, arguing that the weapons banned under the law such ...

A bill passed in this year’s legislative session would rewrite the definition of a “forcible felony” to allow Illinois State ...

The Armory auditorium's existing hardwood floor will be repaired and restored where possible, and a portion of the original ...

Giving almost no time for public review, Illinois Democrats pushed through a $55.2 billion budget for next fiscal year late ...

This deservingly lauded play runs only one weekend at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, and in order to do a write-up, I ...

“This is not a prescription drug affordability bill,” said Lori Reimers, lobbyist for the Pharmaceutical Care Management ...