Ald. Ed Smith, right center, Mayor Richard M. Daley, left center, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and several other elected officials were on hand recently for the PCC Community Wellness Center's ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new state-of-the-art Austin Family Health Center.

Another former candidate for Illinois lieutenant governor has submitted an application to be the new Democratic nominee for the post.

From left, Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, president Tuskegee University; Jack F. Stahl chair of The Board of Directors, UNCF; Dr. Michael Lomax president & CEO, UNCF; Linda Johnson Rice, chairman & CEO, Johnson Publishing Company; and Dr. Billy C. Hawkins, president of Talledega College are pictured as Johson Rice picked up the UNCF Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of her parents the late John H. and Eunice W. Johnson and the Johnson Publishing Company. Photo/Margot Jordan

Nathson Fields, who was on Death Row for 11 1/2 years of the 17 years and 11 months he was behind bars, filed a $360 million federal lawsuit against the city for the conviction of a double murder he was acquitted of during a retrial nearly seven years ago.

WASHINGTON — Support from his own party in doubt, President Barack Obama summoned more than a dozen House Democrats to the White House Thursday, pleading with them to put aside their qualms, seize a historic moment and vote for his massive health care overhaul.

Farrakhan offers salient advice for nation's first Black president, attacks 'white right' who push for one-term Obama

After years of planning, gospel museum may have a home on the South Side.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitian President Rene Preval is heading to the U.S. to discuss what is needed to rebuild his shattered country.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - U.S. troops are withdrawing from the shattered capital, leaving many Haitians anxious that the most visible portion of international aid is ending even as the city is still mired in misery and vulnerable to unrest.