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

Chicago's eastern boundary ... Bronzeville became a refuge for Black Americans looking to escape persecution in the South. As a result, this South Side neighborhood experienced a cultural boom ...

University of Chicago researchers asked Chicagoans to draw their neighborhood boundaries for a new map. Block Club reporters ...

Stephanie Lulay, Executive editor and Co-Founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago ...

The result of the Chicago Neighborhood Project is an unofficial map of the city's geographical makeup that feels more official than the one drawn in the 1920s. After all, what could be more ...

Here’s what readers said about which suburb — or whether any suburb — should be considered an honorary Chicago neighborhood, lightly edited for clarity: “It’s a tie between Norridge and ...

On June 1, 1921, a white mob attacked the Greenwood neighborhood, a predominantly Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Many neighborhoods like this existed across the United States, where Black ...

(AP) — Leslie Knox was a young girl in the 1960s when her Detroit-area city was accused of destroying neighborhoods ... Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their ...

Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their civil rights were violated. In 1971, after a trial, U.S. District Judge Damon Keith ruled that the city had intentionally targeted ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Black veterans of the Chicago Fire Department gathered Thursday to give their insight to the next generation of firefighters and paramedics. Inside Wishnick Hall at the Illinois ...

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