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

Former Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr., whom Barack Obama once called his "political godfather," is also backing Jackson, son of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, in the crowded ...

26th St., as his son, former Democratic U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., clarified what he was saying. Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team. “How many of you are willing ...

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 ...

Tyler Couture, 32, has been indicted on charges of burglary, aggravated assault, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon ...

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

Authorities have identified the three people who were killed in two separate incidents in Yakima Friday. Rocky Fogler, 32, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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