The breakfast, held annually on MLK day, honors the memory and legacy of Dr. King as well as the work of Reverend Jackson.

Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of enslaved people who became wealthy because of the institution of slavery. His Indian Removal Act forced more than 50,000 Native Americans off their ancestral homes, opening up the land for white settlement.

an Associated Press journalist and newsroom leader who covered the civil rights movement and 1968 Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, died Friday. He was 91. He died at his home in ...

Multiple Chicago immigrant advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against Immigration Customs and Enforcement leaders, saying "the administration's announced raids are retaliatory in nature and violate the First Amendment.

Jan. 20 is a federally observed holiday in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Over the weekend, communities across Chicago will host events and service opportunities to honor the civil rights leader's legacy.

Immigrant advocacy groups in Chicago filed a lawsuit Saturday morning against the Trump administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over planned deportation raids.

The Trump administration’s long-promised “largest mass deportation operation” in U.S. history, which was announced to begin “on day one,” has so far resulted in what some experts and immigration advocates suggest are an average number to mild increase in arrests and deportations.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 27, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service,

Dr. Phil, lawsuits and ‘frightened’ communities - Made-for-TV arrests follow a blitz of executive orders targeting immigration, Alex Woodward reports

As Trump threatens Chicago, organizers are bracing for raids but also hopeful that a vast suite of local protections and community trainings can limit the scale of deportations.

On Monday night, the Evanston City Council voted to rename the South Side End Center in honor of Dr. Jorge and Luz Prieto. Monday night, under special

Driscoll was the day supervisor in the AP’s Chicago bureau in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the bureau didn’t have a news editor. This made him the day-to-day leader in the newsroom at a time when the city produced a steady flow of major news, said John Dowling, his former colleague and a retired AP editor.