A truck loaded with Nike Air Force 1 sneakers and Christian Louboutin shoes turned up in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago last week. It was a “bait truck” parked by Norfolk Southern Railway police, with assistance from Chicago Police, to lure thieves to their arrest.
As Chicago Police add more officers to communities, many residents in crime-ridden communities are afraid the crime isn’t going to stop.
The Reverend Franklin Graham has called on supporters to pray for the city of Chicago following an extremely violent weekend.
Chance the Rapper has purchased the local news, food and culture website Chicagoist, announcing the news in his new song “I Might Need Security.”
A man killed by Chicago police had a gun in a holster at his hip and was shot multiple times as he ran away, spun around and reached toward his waist, footage released Sunday from an officer’s body-worn camera shows.
The federal government has quietly revived its investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African-American boy whose abduction and killing in 1955 remains among the starkest and most searing examples of racial violence in the South.
Chicago pastor, Larry D. Trotter, is calling on 1,000 people to engage in prayer for one hour for the city.
Public libraries across the country are hosting drag performers for children’s story hours this month. What started as a one-off 2015 event in San Francisco has become a national movement of libraries hiring men dressed as women to read books and sing songs with children, […]
A new organization for to promote, remember and protect African American firefighters and emergency workers is opening its doors on the Chicago’s southwest side.
A gang-related shootout at a kid’s birthday party in the suburbs of Chicago early Sunday left seven wounded, one critically, authorities said.
“I was uninspired since Lauryn Hill retired,” was Kanye West’s way of speaking for everyone on the Life of Pablo track “No More Parties in L.A.” This year marks the 20th anniversary of Hill’s critically-acclaimed debut solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which fused […]
Assailants in South Africa attacked a top national triathlete who was cycling to a training session and cut into his legs with a blunt saw, causing severe injuries, an athletic director said Wednesday.
