Daley didn’t like votes against him
For years, everyone knew Mayor Richard Daley had an iron grip on the City Council. However, like any savvy dictator, he didn't brag about it. He wasn't overly cocky. With...
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Civil rights leader reflects on 50th anniversary of Freedom Rides
The name Diane Nash may not have the same resonance as those of other key figures in the 1961 Freedom Rides that desegregated interstate bus travel in the Deep South....
Billboards that highlight black abortion disparity spark debate
When a Texas minister came to Chicago last month to launch a controversial anti-abortion billboard campaign, he highlighted a statistic that some people found shocking. According to the Centers for...
Billboards that highlight black abortion disparity spark debate
When a Texas minister came to Chicago last month to launch a controversial anti-abortion billboard campaign, he highlighted a statistic that some people found shocking. According to the Centers for...
Neighborhood revitalization gets artist’s touch
By the time Theaster Gates received an interdisciplinary master's degree in urban planning, religious studies and ceramics in 2006, he already knew it would be difficult to find the perfect...
Golden Apple Scholar dreams of being a teacher and helping others in Cabrini, public housing
How Will Haley, 17, made it out of the Cabrini-Green housing project is a good-luck story. But he hopes that by becoming a teacher, he can help kids in similar...
Girl, 6, gives frank talk about being fat
Children began teasing LaNiyah Bailey about her weight two years ago when she was in prekindergarten. She told me they called her "fatty-pants" and "big, fat elephant girl." Some kids...
Anti-abortion billboard campaign opens in Englewood
The Rev. Isaac Hayes, a minister at Chicago's Apostolic Church of God, came out to a vacant lot in the Englewood neighborhood on Tuesday to support a Texas minister who...
Urban Native Americans feel they have a foot in two worlds
Susan Power grew up in a three-room house on a South Dakota reservation, a stone's throw from where Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull was believed to be buried. "Whenever we...
A generation of hats: Dolores Chestnut sees years of hat-making in the pews
For nearly six decades, Dolores Chestnut has been singing in the choir at the historic St. John Church-Baptist in the Bronzeville neighborhood. On most Sundays, she looks out onto a...