Next year’s Cook County board president race will include Democratic incumbent Todd Stroger who recently announced he would seek a second term.

With the recent release of the Independent Police Review Authority’s 17-month investigation into the 2007 police-involved shooting of a West Side teen, a local watchdog agency said the organization earns good marks for its nearly two-year-old operat

WASHINGTON – Following a recent study exposing racial bias in America’s advertising industry, the NAACP and Washington, D.C. law firm Mehri & Skalet has launched a national campaign to reverse widespread discrimination against African-American

GARDEN CITY, N.Y.–Sen. Charles Schumer has proposed a nationwide ban on a chemical used to make baby bottles and other products for toddlers.

NEW ORLEANS–A federal judge has cleared the way for a trial of the largest-ever litigation involving the U.S. government by denying the Justice Department’s last-ditch attempt to dismiss a damages lawsuit brought by victims of Hurricane Katrin

ST. LOUIS – With her long history of chronic asthma and sickle cell anemia, a short stay at the St. Louis Justice Center for failing to appear in court for two traffic violations cost LaVonda Kimble her life.

If Chicago is to win the hosting rights for the 2016 Olympic Games, it will have to be a civic effort, for a civic victory.

Last week, as a diverse group of community leaders and Olympic planners gathered to sign a document supporting minority participation and affordable housing set-asides as it would relate to a 2016 Games, the words of novelist Charles Dickens came to mind:

In the discussions about what to do to fix up the economic mess left by George Bush, I have come to understand why it happened when I hear the unimagineably ignorant proposals put forth by many Republicans.

Fortunate favors the bold, especially when you’re placing bets in the 2012 presidential sweepstakes.