Mayor Richard M. Daley has appointed John Brooks, first deputy commissioner for the Chicago Fire Department, as the new commissioner of the city’s fire department.
A lawsuit filed by the Illinois Attorney General’s office alleges that a Black-owned dry cleaner in Chicago has not paid mandatory state fees to operate in the state.
A quarter of a century was too long for many Third Ward residents’ concerns to go ignored and business development to be stifled. Change was long overdue, said the current alderman, Pat Dowell.
On July 9, Rev. Jesse Jackson made some stirring comments about Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., while privately speaking to Dr. Reed V. Tuckson, executive vice president and chief of medical affairs for United Health Group, before a Fox News interview.
Karen Jordan of ABC-TV 7 reprised her role as co-host of the 2008 Bud Billiken Essay Competition, with her husband Christian Farr of Ch. 11 on July 12. In the auditorium of the Caruthers Center for Inner City Studies, Northeastern University, 700 E. Oakwo
The public housing complex where a toddler was crushed to death last month by an iron gate is under new management.The Chicago Housing Authority recently announced that H. J. Russell & Company would temporarily take over management duties at the Cabrini
