Monthly Archives: November, 2010

Michael Jordan is finally being inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.

Congressman Danny Davis has claimed the No. 1 spot on the ballot in Chicago's mayor race.

Illinois Senate approves civil unions for gay couples, governor says he will sign the measure.

American Indian landowners and black farmers who for years have waited for Washington to address their claims of government mistreatment won a hard-fought victory Tuesday as Congress cleared legislation to pay the groups $4.6 billion to settle a pair of

A popular Philadelphia pub has settled a lawsuit filed by one of its bartenders who claimed it discouraged nonwhite customers from visiting.

The outgoing head of the National Black Conference of State Legislators says redistricting will be a "major, major issue" after the midterm elections in which Republicans made big gains.

Illinois lawmakers took a step toward offering legal recognition to gay couples Tuesday when the House narrowly voted to create civil unions that would carry some of the benefits and obligations of marriage.

Nearly a dozen of the 20 candidates who want to be Chicago's new mayor have had their nominating petitions for the Feb. 22 ballot challenged.

A handful of candidates running to be Chicago's next mayor are meeting in a public forum.

Authorities in Chicago have charged an 18-year-old boy in the stabbing deaths of a mother and her two daughters, who were found dead in their home on the city's South Side.