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Community Organizing and Family Issues members and parents Dexter Leggin and Rosalia Salgado, at Melody Elementary School in Chicago on March 21, 2022. COFI received $2 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott to advance the group's work in building the leadership, power and voice of low-income parents to fight for equity on behalf of their children and families.

MacKenzie Scott donates $2M to COFI, funds that will be used to nationalize parental leadership model

March 23, 2022 at 12:23 p.m.

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott's charitable giving has made history for another local institution. This time, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has given $2 million to Community Organizing and...

Mikki Kendall, photographed at Lake Michigan near Promontory Point in Chicago, is the author of "Hood Feminism." Kendall often walks along the lakefront as part of her creative process.

Mikki Kendall to end Women’s History Month with ‘Voices for Justice’ virtual event at Chicago Public Library

March 22, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Hyde Park's Mikki Kendall, author of "Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot," has held a number of monikers over the years — ones she has given...

Athena Williams stands outside her childhood home at 4428 W. Jackson Blvd. on March 10, 2022, in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood.

An Englewood artist centers her social justice lens on land sale contracts and the theft of generational wealth

March 21, 2022 at 6:31 p.m.

Athena Williams grew up in West Garfield Park in a family home that her late father had purchased on contract, a term she said she didn't really understand at the...

VOYE director Debra Kelly leads rehearsal at the 12th District police station on March 17, 2022.

COVID forced a West Side choir from their rehearsal space. For now, the singers call CPD’s 12th District home.

March 21, 2022 at 9:54 p.m.

The voices raised in unison in the community room of the 12th District Chicago Police Department station on a recent Thursday evening belonged to less than a dozen youth singing...

John C. Coonley Elementary School can be seen Monday, March 21, 2022, in Chicago. Six Coonley classrooms have reverted to universal masking, a Chicago Public Schools spokesperson confirmed, amid a spike in cases at the school.

The mask mandate returns to six Chicago Public Schools classrooms amid COVID-19 spike at school

March 21, 2022 at 4:29 p.m.

Brenna O'Brien, a parent of a second grader and a fourth grader at Chicago's John C. Coonley Elementary School, wasn't sure over the weekend what she's going to do Monday...

A missing person flyer for Elise Malary, 31, is placed on a windshield in the 700 block of Hinman Avenue, Evanston, where she was last seen alive on March 19, 2022.

Family and friends remember LGBTQ activist Elise Malary found dead over the weekend: ‘She chose time and time again to lift others up’

March 21, 2022 at 7:44 a.m.

People who loved Elise Malary gathered in Andersonville Sunday night in front of a brick wall filled with memories. "Her voice was soft. Her tongue was sharp. Her love is...

Melody Spann-Cooper with her father Pervis Spann at WVON on June 15, 2012.

Broadcasting legends Pervis Spann and Merri Dee left their mark on Chicago

March 17, 2022 at 8:35 p.m.

Merri Dee was described by the late performer Nancy Wilson, in her 2013 memoir. with the words "trailblazing TV and radio icon," and "girl-next-door" in Dee's "Merri Dee: Life Lessons...

Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, listens as Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks on Feb. 22, 2022.

As Mayor Lightfoot, Dr. Arwady look back on pandemic living the past two years, they give thanks while assuring equity work will continue

March 15, 2022 at 7:56 p.m.

Parades, revelry, and community — all of it was evident this past weekend to celebrate St. Patrick's Day — a holiday postponed in various ways in the Chicago area since...

Pamela Bell puts the finishing touches on mini bunt cakes at Silver Spoon Desserts on March 2, 2022.

Meet Aurora native Tamara Turner, proprietor of Silver Spoon Desserts, a firm that landed a contract with American Airlines

March 14, 2022 at 4:36 p.m.

You can't step into the second-floor Archer Heights facility occupied by Silver Spoon Desserts, a bakery that specializes in miniature bundt cakes for the business-to-business, special events and food service...

Prentiss Harris of Chubby's Char House delivers dozens of hot dogs to the Chi-Town Soul Trolley Black Restaurant and History Tour, parked outside Chubby's Char House, Feb. 19, 2022, in Chicago.

Chicago Austin Youth Travel Adventures offers cultural tours to get kids ‘out of their heads and into the world’

March 11, 2022 at 1:26 p.m.

A week before a hip replacement surgery, on a February weekend, Crystal Dyer is walking up the steps of a trolley for an hourslong tour of Chicago that begins on...

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