As it prepares to make Chicago its North American headquarters, the German-based ThyssenKrupp manufacturing company is facing allegations that company supervisors in the city created a hostile and intimidating work environment for an African-American employee.
A superintendent at ThyssenKrupp used the N-word “routinely” around African-American sales representative Montrelle Reese, according to a November finding by the [...]
A U.S. Congressman asked federal authorities Wednesday to investigate the alleged suicides of two African-American men just three days apart while in custody at the same Chicago police station and during the same shifts.
Lawyers for the men’s families say the November deaths should raise questions given the city’s history of police abuse.The mother of one [...]
For six decades, civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells was woven into the fabric of Chicago’s South Side as the namesake of a public housing project.
A Rosa Parks-like figure during her era, the journalist and suffragist was so revered that 1930s leaders put her name on a project that promised good, affordable housing for working [...]
A black family who moved to suburban Willowbrook claims their new, white neighbors harassed them, shot at them, drenched their driveway in animal blood to “rid the community of the coons,” and that police participated in the “daily” threats and harassment.
Pinkney and Maxine James sued the Village of Willowbrook, six of its police officers and [...]
Former congresswoman Debbie Halvorson (D-Ill.) is trying to do what few before her have accomplished: win a majority-black district as a non-black candidate.
The white one-term member of Congress faces Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) in a primary to represent a newly redrawn district that stretches from the South Side of Chicago to rural parts [...]
