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Equal Hope Partners with Local Restaurants to Raise Awareness for Breast Cancer

Team Members for Equal Hope (Photo Credit: Marshelle Sanders).  In the fight against breast cancer, the critical message is free mammograms and services for the...

Community Members Rally Against Aldi Store Closing

When fresh food can be difficult to access, particularly within food deserts such as West Garfield Park, community members are angry and baffled by...

Fashion Show Reflects Wealth of North Lawndale

When Blanche Suggs-Killingsworth looks around North Lawndale, all she sees is home. Though she's lived in other parts of Chicago, she often finds herself...

West Side Celebrates Eighth Consecutive Safe Summer Basketball Season

Near West Side Celebrates Eighth Consecutive Safe Summer Basketball Season Near West Summer league connects 350 youth to safe and healthy summer alternatives After weeks of...

West Side Stories

In the early 1900s, editor and founder of The Chicago Defender Robert Sengstacke Abbott urged Blacks to come to the north, especially Chicago, by...

Basketball Legends and 2 Chainz Visits Chicago: Discuss Sports and Community

Basketball Legends and 2 Chainz Visits Chicago: Discuss Sports and Community By Mary L. Datcher Senior Staff Writer Kenny “The Jet” Smith returned to Chicago with...

EXCLUSIVE Interview: Andrea Zopp is Chicago's New Deputy Mayor

By the time a familiar Chicago columnist dropped the news that former Chicago Urban League President and Illinois U.S. Senate candidate, Andrea Zopp would...

BUILD: The Streets Are Watching

The streets of Chicago is not as hard to maneuver as some may think. Growing up on the West Side, Madison Street was the...

Willie Lloyd: Former Gang Leader of the Vice Lord Nation Dead at 64

Former leader of Vice Lord Nation and reformed advocate of anti-violence, Willie Lloyd died Monday at the age of 64. He relocated with his...

Burns, Pfleger, Emanuel and Lee on Chiraq

Burns, Pfleger, Emanuel and Lee on Chiraq The sides weigh in about Spike Lee's  plans to call his next movie “Chiraq” — an urbane depiction of Black-on-Black...

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