Despite requests to avoid the area, Trump made a visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin, Tuesday. As predicted, the arrival of Air Force One at Waukegan National Airport and the eventual presidential motorcade clogged […]
Around 100 activists and community members marched through McKinley Park on Saturday to demand an end to environmental racism, divestment from the Chicago Police Department, and an investment in environmental and other […]
Rodham: A Novel By Curtis Sittenfield Random House We think we should all know her by now. After decades in the limelight, Hillary Rodham Clinton remains, for many, an enigma. Now author […]
Hundreds of McDonald’s workers in 20 cities across the country went on strike Wednesday morning to protest what they say is the company’s “failed response” towards its employees needs during the COVID-19 […]
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will hold a rally in Chicago on Saturday, 10 days before Illinoisans head to the polls. Saturday’s afternoon rally in Grant Park will be the first of at […]
President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. “Yes, we commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich,” Trump told reporters before boarding Air Force One at Joint […]
The Chicago Teachers Union strike came to a close on Thursday afternoon after the union and Mayor Lori Lightfoot agreeing on one final sticking point – making up the 11 lost school […]
President Donald Trump finally came back to Chicago – a city he loves to hate – on Monday morning for his first official visit since he took the oath of office. The […]
Massachusetts Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren visited striking Chicago education workers on a picket line at Oscar Depriest Elementary School in South Austin on the city’s West Side Thursday morning. “I’m […]
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren brought her stump speech to a packed town hall at the Auditorium Theatre on Friday night, calling out big money in politics, corruption in Washington, DC, […]
Fresh off the first set of televised debates, several Democratic presidential hopefuls will make appearances in Chicago over the weekend, most at the annual Rainbow PUSH Convention, titled “400 Years Later: Repairing […]
Hundreds of demonstrators packed into Daley Plaza and later marched through the Loop to Trump Tower Thursday evening to protest severe restrictions on abortion passed in several states across the country in […]
