The first time I heard about the Yippies, I was almost thirteen.  The Democratic Convention was going full swing in Chicago in August 1968.  I delivered ...

She was an outspoken opponent of credit discrimination against women before Congress passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

Jewish leaders are pressuring Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to establish an antisemitism task force, because they believe he’s not doing enough to protect the Jewish community, Fox News Digital has ...

Entrenched Democratic cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Philadelphia are urban dumps. There were times in the past when they were the jewels of the American land. But some quick statistics: The top ...

Midway through Black History Month, the country lost a civil rights pioneer and prominent advocate for equal rights and economic justice in the Rev. Jesse Jackson. The two-time presidential hopeful ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson had a complicated, fraught and sometimes contentious relationship with Chicago mayors. For 60 years, nine mayors had no choice but to contend with him and sometimes defer to him ...

Timing is everything, and it's why Bill Daley and Ray LaHood are suspending an ambitious attempt to take some of the politics out of election maps. They launched Fair Maps Illinois, seeking a ...

(CNN) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Saturday signed an executive order directing city police to investigate and document alleged misconduct by federal immigration officers with an eye toward ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Saturday laying the groundwork for the city to investigate and seek prosecution of federal immigration agents who allegedly break the law in the ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, signed an executive order on Saturday directing the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to investigate and document alleged illegal activity by federal ...

The next day, Daley, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Coretta Scott King were joined by 6,000 mourners at the Arie Crown Theater inside McCormick Place for Jackson’s ...