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Twenty-One Candidates: Who made the deadline to run for mayor?

    Just one month after the historic governor’s race in Illinois—where both candidates spent record amounts of money—Chicagoans look…
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General Manager Colin Hadden: Changes Coming to Illinois Lottery

Last year, Camelot Illinois became the new operator and manager of the Illinois Lottery. And now, patrons can begin to…
How to Make Your Holidays Happy –NOT BLUE

      Joy to the World!  Home for the Holidays…Music is all around us triggering the joyous feeling we…
Thanksgiving 2018: Why We Are Grateful

    While some of the nation is celebrating the pilgrims surviving in the U.S., most Black people are just…
Gunman Kills Doctor, Police Officer and Pharmacist at Mercy Hospital

      Days before celebrating Thanksgiving, Chicagoans are left reeling over a deadly shooting at Mercy Hospital. On Monday,…
Bobby Rush Leads Rally To Stop Target Closings

U.S. Representative Bobby Rush recently led a rally at the Target Store at 1154 S. Clark Avenue in Chicago urging…
Open Letter from Michelle Obama–Exclusively for The Chicago Defender

    In the summer of 1975, Dr. Joseph A. Lavizzo, Jr., the principal at Bryn Mawr Elementary School in…
JB Pritzker Wins!

    In a high-stakes, high price-tag election, JB Pritzker overwhelmingly won the top seat in Illinois, causing incumbent Governor…
Brittany Cooper Writes About Black Women and Rage

The “angry Black woman” is as much of a stereotype in the African American community as any other label used…
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