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Dennis Delgado, the executive director of One Hope United in Illinois, hangs wall art in the dining room of a One Hope United foster home on Nov. 20, 2025, in Rockford. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

A fresh approach to fostering youth in Illinois carries hope

March 11, 2026 at 1:18 p.m.

Welcome to Hope House, a model for fostering children and teens developed by the Chicago-based nonprofit One Hope United. The premise is a stable household with a built-in support team...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's children, from left, Yusef Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Santita Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr. and Ashley Jackson watch as the procession for their father arrives at the South Carolina State House, March 2, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

South Carolina honors native son the Rev. Jesse Jackson

March 2, 2026 at 7:46 p.m.

Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning in South Carolina, where civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in repose at the state capitol.

Students walk through campus at Kennedy-King College in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood on Nov. 6, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Pritzker Traubert Foundation awards $5M Chicago Talent Challenge to City Colleges and Cook County Health

March 6, 2026 at 10:23 a.m.

Pritzker Traubert Foundation is awarding $5 million to train and place Chicagoans into 1,000 health care jobs over the next three years.

Allen Norris, 18, right, and his mother Artila Mims wait in line to attend the first public visitation for the Rev. Jesse Jackson at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters on Feb. 26, 2026. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Rev. Jesse Jackson to lie in state at the South Carolina State House in Columbia

February 26, 2026 at 7:04 p.m.

Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in state at the South Carolina State House, Monday, March 2. A public memorial service will follow.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition lead a protest through the Loop on Dec. 6, 2015, in response to the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Rev. Jesse Jackson was a ‘giant figure in the world,’ but he stayed rooted in Illinois

February 27, 2026 at 1:16 p.m.

Rev. Jesse Jackson’s career as a civil rights leader and politician took him across the country and around the world, yet he remained close to Illinois.

Jonathan Jackson, center, steadies his brother Yusef Jackson as they address the press on Feb. 18, 2026, about the passing of their father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, outside the family home in Chicago. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Family of Rev. Jesse Jackson honors legacy of civil rights icon

February 18, 2026 at 8:59 p.m.

Rev. Jackson's work and mission were remembered by his children outside the family home Wednesday.

Director Crissy Johnston, left, watches and listens as Janaah Coates rehearses a scene for Dreamscape Theatre’s “School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play” in Elk Grove Village on Feb. 10, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

A theater legacy continues in Schaumburg with Maurice Proffit and Dreamscape Theatre

February 18, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Decades of the Proffit presence in the northwest suburbs continued in 2025 with the creation of the nonprofit Dreamscape Theatre. Their first work is a production of "School Girls; Or,...

Carolyn Dunbar, of University Park, is comforted by Ziff Sistrunk as she weeps while arriving with flowers to lay outside the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago, Feb. 17, 2026, following news of the death of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Rev. Jesse Jackson remembered as one of the ‘last great leaders’ by Chicago friends and neighbors

February 17, 2026 at 6:28 p.m.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was remembered as a “servant leader” who championed the oppressed, voiceless and overlooked around the world.

Rev. Jesse Jackson holds a press conference in the Loop after a motorcade to try to register voters among Black wards on Jan. 24, 1970. (William Yates/baiduhai)

Rev. Jesse Jackson: Minister, civil rights advocate, politician, intermediary and social justice proponent

February 17, 2026 at 11:34 a.m.

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, has spent the last 60 years of his life in front of cameras advocating for social...

George Ellzey, Jr. on the set in Lincoln Park of his new short film, "Closed Mouths," on Dec. 26, 2024. (M. Lamourt)

Short film series features local Black filmmakers at Facets, Music Box for Black History Month

February 13, 2026 at 5:15 a.m.

The "Life Within the Lens" series is back at the Music Box Theatre for Black History Month, along with the "Sunday's Best" series at Facets.

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