Evanston, Il will be the first city in the US to distribute reparations to repay Black residents for accumulated losses incurred by racism.
Police in Waukegan, Illinois, shot and killed an unarmed teenage Black man and critically injured his girlfriend on the night of Oct. 20.
The man who fatally shot Haydia Pendleton while she was hanging out with friends at a park has been sentenced to 84 years in prison.
Evanston police release the dashcam video of a Northwestern doctoral candidate being beat for stealing a car that turned out to be his.
A judge sentenced William Balfour to three consecutive life terms, after a jury convicted him of murdering three of Jennifer Hudson's family members.
Is it time to call in the National Guard? According to The New York Times, homicides in Chicago have increased by 38 percent as New York...
After three days of deliberation, jurors found William Balfour guilty in the October 2008 shooting deaths of the Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew.
For the third year in a row, every senior in an all African-American urban charter high school for men in Chicago, has been accepted to college.
A trial has been set for William Balfour who is charged in the slayings of three members of Jennifer Hudson’s family.
High school basketball star shot and killed