CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.

Good morning, Chicago. The lungs that Dr. Ankit Bharat took out of Tadd Crosslin, a 49-year-old father of twins, were marred with billions of cancer cells. They were “perhaps the most diseased that we ...

Lorraine Hansberry was a Chicago playwriting legend. Her father Carl was a real estate broker turned civil rights activist.

1969: Controversial University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon — who inspired a more than two-week sit-in by ...

Andy Hansen's photo of Larry Green ice fishing pulls up artists as varied as the Grateful Dead, Vincent van Gogh and Charles ...

Overview: As the Chicago Department of Public Health rolls out an ambitious action plan, Trump’s Project 2025 playbook ...

Somaya Critchlow, 31, is showing her provocative paintings alongside a storied collection that includes work by Rubens, van ...

The DuPage County Board voted to remove the name of former congressman Henry Hyde from its courthouse due to his stance on ...