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…
08.04.16
West Side Stories

In the early 1900s, editor and founder of The Chicago Defender Robert Sengstacke Abbott urged Blacks to come to the…
11.22.16
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…
06.07.16
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…
05.18.16
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,…
11.12.15
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.…
07.21.15
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”…
06.05.15
It’s OFFICIAL: President Obama Confirms Chicago as Library Location

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has chosen his hometown of Chicago to host his future presidential library, two individuals…
05.01.15
Rep. LaShawn Ford Says He Still Has Supporters, Hasn’t Lost ‘Respect’

After everything State Rep. LaShawn Ford (D-Chicago) has experienced since federal prosecutors indicted him in 2012, he said he isn’t…
08.06.14
Chicago Alderman Owned Reputed Drug House

For roughly a decade, Ald. Jason Ervin owned an “investment property” that was a magnet for drugs and other crime.…
11.21.12
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