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Julius Thomas, owner of Jerk Taco Man installs a kitchen in his new restaurant in Chicago on Feb. 21, 2018. Jerk Taco Man started in West Garfield Park and is now expanding to Chatham.

With Obama center coming, hope seen for black-owned businesses

May 23, 2019 at 3:12 a.m.

When Keeana Barber’s guests arrive at her gala in the South Loop on Saturday night, hundreds of black entrepreneurs will be introduced to younger visionaries and hear their pitches for...

As Obama Presidential Center comes closer to reality, tensions on race, class surface

May 23, 2019 at 3:12 a.m.

When Bronwyn Nichols Lodato began pushing to prevent a portion of Chicago’s Midway Plaisance from being developed into a parking garage by the Obama Foundation, she never expected to be...

Harsh exhibit gallery space, named after Vivian G. Harsh, at the Woodson Regional Library in Chicago on Feb. 14, 2018.

Refurbished Woodson library houses black research collection that is ‘the pride of Chicago’

December 14, 2018 at 8:37 p.m.

Even as the building was under construction, Melvin Thompson sometimes sat outside the Carter G. Woodson library branch and stared at the illuminated black and white image of Vivian G....

Golfer Charles Young takes a practice swing before starting out on the first hole at the South Shore Cultural Center golf course.

Park District, private firm present updated plans for South Side golf course

May 23, 2019 at 12:28 a.m.

The Chicago Park District presented an updated vision for merging the Jackson Park and South Shore golf courses at an open house Wednesday night, saying the latest design was modified...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Martin Nesbitt, left, chairman of the Obama Foundation, announce on May 12, 2015, that Chicago will be the home of Obama's presidential library and museum.

After community uproar, Obama Foundation moves parking garage underground

May 23, 2019 at 3:12 a.m.

Bowing to community pressure, the Obama Foundation has scrapped its plan for an above-ground parking garage and will instead build an underground facility below the presidential center in Jackson Park,...

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 15, 2017.

Chicago activists seek answers from Ben Carson after delay of segregation rule

May 23, 2019 at 12:22 a.m.

Just days after the Trump administration announced it would delay enforcing a federal housing rule requiring communities to address racial segregation, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben...

Collective of diverse construction firms hired to manage Obama center construction

May 23, 2019 at 3:12 a.m.

A collective of five construction firms — most of them owned by African-Americans — has been hired to manage the building of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. The decision...

Christopher Adams, a filmmaker based in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago, shoots additional scenes for a project he's working on in a warehouse in Chicago's South Loop on Dec. 22, 2017.

Chicago collective puts black characters in fantasy, horror and sci-fi films

December 17, 2018 at 11:22 p.m.

When Chris Adams was a teen growing up in the Far South Side’s Roseland area, he would often imagine himself living in space and existing alongside alien creatures such as...

A list of slaves at Mount Vernon written by George Washington around 1799 details marriages, children and notes on individuals, is seen at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington in Mount Vernon, Va., in May 2016.

The unspoken history hidden behind a surname

May 31, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

Only the truly curious even ask. And when a Harvard University student recently inquired about my name, she was clear that she wanted to know about my surname. She repeated...

The Obama Foundation has proposed building a garage on the Midway Plaisance across the street from the Obama Presidential Center.

Community leaders skeptical about new Obama center garage design

May 23, 2019 at 3:12 a.m.

A revised design for the Obama Presidential Center’s controversial parking garage is getting a thumbs-down from some community leaders who attended a closed-door meeting at which the plan was unveiled....

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