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‘Tragedy on top of a tragedy’: For Emmett Till’s surviving relatives, a case closed with no justice or apology

December 8, 2021 at 12:15 p.m.

The Emmett Till case is officially closed, according to the Department of Justice. And without an apology or justice, Till's surviving relatives said. The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division...

U of C’s Cathy Cohen is awarded $250K to continue movement work in and outside academia for the BIPOC community: ‘You have to be involved in the struggle, no matter where you’re located.’

December 20, 2021 at 10:57 a.m.

You must be doing something right when the accolades and awards keep coming in. That is the case with Cathy Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor...

The original house used in the "Home Alone" movies has Christmas decorations to reflect scenes from the movie.

Stay in Winnetka’s ‘Home Alone’ house this season through Airbnb and encounter booby traps, mac and cheese, and a tarantula

December 1, 2021 at 7:50 p.m.

First, it was the Pie House in Deerfield, then it was Scottie Pippen's Highland Park home for the Summer Olympics. Now it's the McCallisters'. An overnight stay at Winnetka's "Home...

A mural depicting missing postal worker Kierra Coles is seen on East 79th Street in Chicago on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Furthering the conversation about dozens of Black women and girls who go missing without any resolution. WVON’s Candace Collum’s series this week, is doing just that.

November 29, 2021 at 5:27 p.m.

While the typical holiday TV season tends to be heavy on nostalgia, holiday specials and Lifetime/Hallmark movies, this season the many missing and slain women of color in the United...

Kikora Mason is Chicago's deputy digital director and the person behind the @Chicago Twitter account.

Meet the person behind that viral social media post that came from the official @Chicago and @chicagosmayor Twitter handles. Her name: Kikora Mason.

December 1, 2021 at 12:59 a.m.

Hands hovering over the keyboard writing and deleting words? Trying to gauge whether a social media post will strike all the right chords or go the opposite direction, making your...

President and owner of Vanille Patisserie Sophie Evanoff, left, delivers donated pumpkin pies to Fight2Feed founder Jiwon McCartney in Chicago on Nov. 23, 2021.

Pies for a good cause as donation season is here, this Thanksgiving, Vanille Patisserie collaborates with Fight2Feed

November 23, 2021 at 3:49 p.m.

Vanille Patisserie has brought forth the pies for another November. This time, customers get to choose from butterscotch cream pie, pumpkin pie with cinnamon whipped cream, apple streusel, pecan and...

Amelie Suskind Liu, 16, reads her first book "Matzo Ball-Wonton Thanksgiving" to a kindergarten class at The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools at Earl Shapiro Hall on Nov. 19, 2021.

U. of C. Lab School’s Amelie Liu, 16, writes ‘Matzo Ball-Wonton Thanksgiving’ children’s book on identity intersectionality: ‘ I just want them to feel joy at the dinner table’

November 24, 2021 at 1:44 p.m.

For Amelie Suskind Liu, there is no soup on Thanksgiving. And no, that is not a "Seinfeld" reference. She says so more than once in "Matzo Ball-Wonton Thanksgiving," a children's...

Hayden, 19, and dad Jud Curry head inside from the barn on Nov. 21, 2021, outside their Elburn home. The subjects of a new documentary, "Hayden & Her Family," the Currys are raising 12 children, five of whom are adopted and have special needs. Hayden has a syndrome that caused disfigurement of her face and the story explores her perspective.

Meet the Currys, an Elburn family with 12 children, including five adoptees with special needs: ‘Family is family’

December 1, 2021 at 3:40 p.m.

Elburn's Curry family has a household of children, 12 to be exact, who complain about internet dead zones in their home. When daughter Ting Ting overhears parents Elizabeth and Judson...

Black Bench Chicago founder Alex Sims applauds other speakers as the organization's first cohort of graduates gathers Nov. 14 during an event at Tree House in River North. The organization launched in the spring of 2021 with the goal of training a new generation of Black leaders in politics, government, policy and advocacy.

Black Bench Chicago graduates first group of young Black leaders in public affairs. Creators hope it’s the start of an emerging, ongoing talent pipeline.

November 15, 2021 at 2:53 p.m.

When then-labor organizer Anthony Driver spoke in February about Black Bench Chicago — whose purpose is to educate participants on legislative processes, special interests, the history of Black organizing in...

Mather High School senior Marques Watts outside his home in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood on Nov. 6, 2021. Watts is a youth leader of Communities United, a survivor-led, grassroots, intergenerational, racial justice organization.

Study shows any contact with police may be detrimental to health, well-being of Black youth: ‘I feel like there’s always going to be fear because that’s how we still live’

November 12, 2021 at 8:53 p.m.

Marques Watts, 18, remembers his first encounter with police at the age of 13, when he was in eighth grade. Visiting his father, who lived in Skokie, Watts was walking...

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