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A 1971 view of the Jerusalem Temple Church on South Indiana street in Bronzeville, a South Side neighborhood of Chicago. Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images Tamar Manasseh April 7, 2025 Every year at Passover, when Jews around the world recite the Four Questions, we begin by asking, “ma nishtana halaila hazeh me kol halaylot” […]
It wasn’t just Chicago Police running Homan Square, the notorious off-the-books holding facility where detainees alleged heinous civil rights violations. The US Department of Justice has also used the building, which continues to operate a decade after being exposed as the site of alleged torture and unlawful detentions. This article was originally published by Noir […]
CNN — A Southwest Airlines plane and a private jet that entered the runway without authorization experienced a close call at Chicago Midway International Airport on Tuesday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Southwest Flight 2504 landed safely at the Chicago airport . . .
New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has announced the All Blacks will take on Ireland at Chicago’s Soldier Field this November in what is being dubbed the ‘Rematch’ – the highly anticipated clash fans have been waiting for since the teams met in the United States in 2016. NZR Chief Executive Mark Robinson said: “We’re excited […]
Bookstore owner Danielle Moore remembers the summer of 2020 at Semicolon Books vividly. In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder that May, there was a noticeable surge in patrons at Moore’s bookstore that promotes Black writers and writers of color. As one Black-owned bookstore in Chicago, Semicolon saw excellent business the rest of that year. […]
OAK PARK, Ill. (WLS) — An Oak Park church is honoring the life and legacy of a former Chicago priest during Black History Month. Father Augustus Tolton was the first Black Catholic priest in the United States. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch
With a chant of, ‘while you’re shopping, bombs are dropping’, pro-Palestinians march down Chicago’s famous Magnificent Mile of high-end stores on Black Friday, the day after the Thanksgiving national holiday and the busiest shopping day of the year. Black Friday, they’re still dropping the bombs. They’re still hurting those children, those people who are […]
Coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on Chicago, with nearly 65,000 confirmed infections in Cook county and about 3,000 deaths. But the virus has hit black Chicagoans the hardest, shining a spotlight on racial inequalities that existed long before the pandemic. Though black residents make up 30% of the city’s population, they account for 60% […]
After a few holiday seasons of solely existing inside Macy’s store, iconic toy brand Toys “R” Us is reopening standalone brick-and-mortar stores once again, with a suburban Chicago mall garnering one of the first locations.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen if he is elected — a promise he has predicated, in part, on the notion that immigrants in the U.S. legally and illegally are stealing what he calls “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs.” But government data show immigrant labor contributes […]