ReMARCs: Tuning Out of the Oscars and Into Diversity
By Marc Morial President & CEO, National Urban League Diversity at the Oscars Actress Jada Pinkett Smith,...
Year: 2016
December Jobs in Illinois Decrease -16,300 while Unemployment Rate Rises to 5.9
CHICAGO, IL – The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced today that Illinois’ nonfarm payroll employment lost -16,300 jobs...
State Senator Collins to Chair Senate Hearing on Small Business Impact of Predatory Lending, Lack of Access to Capital
CHICAGO, IL — Illinois State Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D-Chicago 16th), chair of the Senate Financial Institutions Committee, will hold...
Online Auction for Unclaimed Property
Live Auction January 25 - 29, Sale Preview Underway SPRINGFIELD, IL – Commemorative coins, stamps, and jewelry are among the...
Fioretti Condemns GOP Plan to Bankrupt Chicago Schools
Fioretti condemns forced CPS bankruptcy The plan by Gov. Bruce Rauner and other members of the Illinois GOP to bankrupt...
Madigan: Changes that Hurt the Middle Class Cannot be Allowed
CHICAGO, IL – Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan issued the following statement Thursday after Gov. Bruce Rauner and Republican...
Former Clerk at Cook County Recorder of Deeds Admits Accepting Cash Bribe in Exchange for Preparing Fraudulent Real Estate Deed
CHICAGO, IL — A former clerk for the Cook County Recorder of Deeds pleaded guilty today to accepting a cash...
FBI Releases Preliminary Semiannual Crime Statistics for 2015
Statistics released in the FBI’s Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report revealed overall declines in the number of property crimes reported...
Kirk’s Response to Reports of Administration’s Additional $1.7 Billion Payment to Iran
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) responded to reports the Administration, in addition to giving the terror-sponsoring Iranian...
Professor Believes Black Lives Don’t Matter Because Some Civil Rights Leaders Got it Wrong
Nationwide (BlackNews.com - Devin Robinson, a black business & economics professor, had strong words recently for the attendees of the...
