While enjoying the 79th Annual Chicago Defender Bud Billiken Parade Saturday, the community will still see many blue shirts keeping…

A study by an organization of African immigrants has found that Africans in Illinois with advanced degrees are having difficulty…

Union leaders say they are willing to do their part in helping to solve the city of Chicago's budget deficit…

A former South Side alderman never waffled about her innocence when federal corruption charges were levied against her last year,…

A newly signed law named for a suburban woman gunned down by an ex-boyfriend outside her office will allow Illinois…

Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich has jumped into the fray regarding school funding, calling on the General Assembly to return to…

She has no days off, but that’s what she signed up for because “so much needed to be done.” Each…

Between 1997 and 1999, 32 to 34 babies were found abandoned every year, according to the Illinois Department of Children…

Traffic congestion in and around the Chicago metropolitan area costs the region $7.3 billion a year, a new study commissioned…