The Nobel Peace Prize winner came to the city in January 1966 to assist with the city’s fledgling civil rights efforts.

A photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. waving out a window adorns the exterior of the King Legacy Apartments at 16th Street and Hamlin Avenue in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood on Jan. 16, 2018.

What time is it?” was the popular question posed during the 1970s. It initiated a call and response ritual in which the crowd ...

Dr. Martin Luther King's work in Chicago makes celebrating MLK Day a special occasion in the city, marked by various events ...

Garcia helped pass civil rights legislation at the city, county, and state levels, then worked for civil unions and marriage ...

Chicago is marking 30 years since it started its first citywide recycling program, which began with a problematic kickoff, ...

Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced ...

The state said it has opened an investigation into whether the management of a troubled South Side building may have called ...

After remaining stable for years, the portion of school-aged children in Chicago who attend its public schools has shrunk ...

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Shortly after midnight on Sept. 30, 300 federal law enforcement agents, including some rappelling from Black Hawk helicopters, raided a Chicago apartment building in search of Venezuelan gang members.

We look back on Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Chicago Freedom Movement. The ...