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Conservative Clergy of Color slams hypocritical Chicago mayor for protecting her home while letting city burn. “I have a right to make sure that my...

As Mayor Lori Lightfoot approaches the end of her first year as mayor of Chicago, she recently sat down with local community-based media organizations...

Mayoral candidate Troy LaRaviere has been a thorn in Mayor Rahm Emanuel's backside. The former principal of Blaine Elementary has long criticized the Emanuel...

Mayor Emanuel: The Second Time Around   By: Mary L. Datcher CD Senior Staff Writer   He is the second son of Benjamin and Marsha Emanuel, who along with...

CHICAGO - Rahm Emanuel won election as mayor of Chicago three years ago in part because of his strength in the African-American community, but...

Despite initially saying he had trepidations about the plan, new "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon has taken up Rahm Emanuel on his Polar Plunge...

Former mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, 71, has stepped out on the town with his reported girlfriend, Dr. Adele Joy Cobbs, 41, reports DNAInfo.com. The couple officially made their national debut at the June 22 wedding party of financier Mellody Hobson, 43, and film-maker George Lucas, 68, who tied the knot at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California. As previously reported by NewsOne, Hobson, who is president of Ariel Investments LLC, a $3 billion investment firm based in Chicago, and the Star Wars director have been together for 7 years. Read more from DNA Info: Sources who were at the George Lucas-Mellody Hobson wedding party, held in June at Promontory Point, said Daley and his date “hit it off after meeting at the gym,” [Shia] Kapos reported in Crain’s. Neither Daley nor Cobbs confirmed their dating status to Crain’s. Cobbs couldn’t be reached for comment. Cobbs, who lives in Hyde ...

Tourists have been no strangers to Chicago, with city officials reporting the Windy City welcomed a near-record number 46.2 million visitors last...