Speaking before a gathering of some 1,000 “Women for Obama” on Monday at a Palmer House luncheon, Michelle Obama, wife of presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, shared why she believes her husband is the best leader t
If nothing else, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama could score with minority journalists for at least bothering to show up to their presidential forum. Unlike his Republican counterpart, Obama, just back from a weeklong oversea
In a bid to highlight funding inequalities at Illinois public schools, Chicago community leaders called on students from poorer parts of Chicago to skip the first day of classes and spend the day instead trying to enroll at a school in a wealthy suburban
The father of the 9-year-old girl stabbed to death two weeks ago is angry about the apparent cloud of suspicion that hovers over him after Chicago police paid several visits to his home in the last four days, prompting him to hire an attorney.
At a recent public hearing by the City Council’s Police and Fire Committee, Ald. Sharon Dixon (24th) said shootings in her West Side community are largely ignored by the media, and suggested that more coverage could help stop the bullets from flying
University of Illinois Board of Trustees officially appointed a number of key University administrators at its meeting Thursday on the Chicago campus. In addition, student trustees from the University’s three campuses were installed.
Chicago police are testing blood samples from a knife found by a cleaning crew Monday morning near the area where Mya Lyons was found brutally stabbed on July 14. Police are looking to see if the knife was used to kill the 9-year-old.
