Customers looking to eat at the popular Black-owned restaurant Soul Queen may have to wait another 45 days to do so. That’s when the restaurant is scheduled to have an administrative hearing with the Chicago Department of Health to answer code viola
The 2008 Chicago Defender Bud Billiken Parade King and Queen Contest has six lucky winners. The children won the contest based on an essay they wrote on “leadership” and the number of subscriptions to the Chicago Defender they sold. Jordan Nor
The city is getting three new libraries, two of which will be on the South Side. The current Whitney Young branch will be torn down and replaced with a new one at 7901 S. King Drive. It should be completed by January 2011 and was allocated $14 million for
A 17-month federal investigation of the nation's largest single-site county jail has uncovered serious sanitation and medical care problems as well as violence directed against prisoners who clashed with guards or failed to follow commands, officials said
Residents living in apartment buildings near Michael Reese Hospital, 2929 S. Ellis, and throughout the Bronzeville community, hope the city does not win its bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games. The tenants, many of them low-income, said if the city wins th
A crowd of about 50 people gathered outside of the Thompson Center downtown on Tuesday rallying to hold legislators responsible for not passing common sense gun laws. Rev. Michael Pfleger and members of his congregation at the Faith Community of St. Sabin
This Saturday was supposed to be a family, fun-filled day at Great America for the Lyons family.That's no longer the case.The family of 9-year-old Mya Lyons will lay her to rest instead.
Around the same time hundreds of family members and friends celebrated the life of a 9-year-old who was stabbed to death, Chicago police released a "person of interest" who collected scrap metal in the Auburn-Gresham area.
Residents who have been largely critical of the Chicago Police Department said Police Supt. Jody Weis hasn't been in his post long enough to warrant the tongue lashing he received as a result of last month's increased murder rate and the fatal shooting ne
A third man, currently jailed on unrelated charges, was denied bail Wednesday for his connection with the April quintuple homicide in the Chatham community.
