Legislators Stand with Community to Issue People-Focused Legislative Agenda Following Governor’s Budget Address
Group Slams Governor Bruce Rauner’s Non-Budget Address for the 3rd Year in a Row On Wednesday, following the Governor’s budget...
Year: 2017
Thousands to Gather at U.S. Supreme Court Over Presidents’ Day Weekend
Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court Could Void 2016 Primary and General Elections Jerroll Sanders WASHINGTON, D.C. - Thousands will...
University of Chicago Groups Protest Trump Manager on Campus
Coalition demands University Stop Providing Platform to Trump Surrogates CHICAGO, IL – After delivering a letter (attached) to the school’s...
Chicago Stands Against Trump and Netanyahu: #BuildMovementsNotWalls
From: Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine Day before hearings on David Friedman, Trump nominee for Israeli ambassador, participants join...
Rep. Ford Passes Resolution Calling on Rauner to Combat Increase in Violent Crime
SPRINGFIELD, IL – In response to the number of gun violence victims in Chicago last year skyrocketing to over 4,000,...
Piccolo’s Private Eyes Opens This Weekend Despite Election Year Effect
EVANSTON - Piccolo Theatre presents Private Eyes, a relationship comedy thriller by Steven Dietz, open Saturday, February 18 at 8p...
Unprecedented Proposed Law Provides African Americans Reparations and Opportunities to Better Their lives
Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) -- On February 10, 2017, proposed legislation was submitted to the DC Board of Elections. It is...
Attorney General Madigan Files Amicus Brief in Federal Lawsuit Seeking to Halt Implementation of Immigration Executive Order
Madigan Joins 15 Other Attorneys General & Asks Appellate Court to Permanently End Unconstitutional Travel Ban Nationwide Noting...
State Investigation Leads to $4.25 Million Settlement in Mining Discrimination Lawsuit
Illinois Department of Human Rights assists U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in investigation of sex discrimination in coal mining ...
Black History Month: A Tribute to Courage and Perseverance
By Marc Morial President & CEO, National Urban League "If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition,...
