Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored Convention of 1853, where men and women from across the country worked to ...

We are celebrating Black History Month by featuring stories of Chicago's past, present and future. Today, we start by ...

No, Indiana doesn't really want these Illinois counties — though it is easy to see why Illinois might not want them either.

An American Airlines plane with 64 people on board collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into ...

Horse riding community holds fundraiser for family impacted by deadly Sumter County crash What's popular isn't necessarily ...

This week, similarly desperate Springfield Republicans threw their own “Hail Mary.” They filed a lawsuit asking the Democratic-controlled Illinois Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the state ...

An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside ...

Legislation now on Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk aims at providing protections for workers at large warehouses such as those run by Amazon by requiring employers to be more transparent about productivity ...

Residents anxious to see what had become of their properties after the Palisades Fire ignited on Jan. 7 waited in their cars ...

Black residents make up more than 31% of the county's voting-age population, the department said, adding that Houston County has elected just one Black commissioner since the end of the Civil War.

The civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court says those at-large elections violate the Voting Rights Act by unfairly diluting the influence of Black voters, who make up nearly one-third of the ...