Illinois has 17 congressional districts – of which all but four include at least part of the greater Chicago area.

The following individuals were arrested by municipal police departments in Shelby County from Oct. 13-23: Oct. 15 -John Andrew McGuire, 41, of Maylene, alias warrant (FTA switched tag), capias warrant ...

Jesse Jackson Jr. Jonathan Jackson worked at his ... prison for the murder of a 26-year-old woman in... Police: Juvenile arrested after three-way crash in Orange involving stolen cars Police ...

An FBI source said Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership ... Additionally, of her constant support, Reverend Jesse Jackson said, “When Dr. King was alive, several times ...

Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, says he died Sunday night at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, surrounded by ...

The Watts riots in an impoverished black neighborhood in Los Angeles lead to 34 deaths and 4,000 arrests ... of mainstream black candidates. Jesse Jackson runs as a Democrat in 1984 and 1988.

Harold Washington at Senn High School’s Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration ... but Chicago leaders and organizers like Jesse Jackson continued to ride this coalition-style momentum ...

Devlin Jr. Officers Marie Cetti, Jesse Jimenez, Maria Canhassi and Jahmaine Mercer located a man, later identified as 45-year-old Huntley Jackson of ... resisting arrest and carrying a dangerous ...

In 1962, Hamer was arrested when ... Carolina native Jesse Jackson became involved in sit-ins while in college and joined the SCLC in 1965. In 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the civil rights ...

Of the 75 cases in which they had made an arrest by late November ... was shot near her residence in Southeast. Maurice Jackson Jr., 16, shot two blocks from Dunbar High School while headed ...

I believe a lot can be learned by knowing a person’s favorite movies or books. Last year, our former editor, Matthew Sasser, ...

Jesse Jackson Jr. after Jackson resigned in disgrace ... and has been known as a champion on women's and reproductive issues ...