1971: The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced the formation of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity, later changed to ...

Each year, CBS News Chicago remembers some of the many people who made the city tick through a variety of talents and achievements. Here are 62 people whose memories Chicago is honoring in 2025.

The Rev. Vicki Garlock, a children’s book author and religion educator who grew up in Kankakee, said the aim of her journey ...

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Reverend Donald Eugene Cooper passed away peacefully at the age of 85 on November 27, 2025, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Brother Don, as many would call him, answered his call to preach in 1983, and ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson has been discharged from a Chicago hospital after nearly two weeks, a family spokesperson says. According to Jackson’s son Yusef, the 84-year-old civil rights leader was discharged ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. has been released from a downtown hospital after spending nearly two weeks there, his family said in a statement. The 84-year-old civil rights activist's ...

The visibility and voice of clergy are indispensable to the protest movement forming against President Donald Trump’s ...

Some Chicagoans came to appreciate “Messiah” as a piece of music with appeal that extended beyond its Christian themes.

President Donald Trump revived calls to ramp up the federal government’s military crackdown in Chicago after a 14-year-old was killed and eight other teenagers were wounded during weekend shootings in ...

Nov. 24 (UPI) --Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson was released from the hospital Monday, his family announced, after spending nearly a week in the intensive care unit. Jackson, 84, was hospitalized ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said crime in Chicago is "out of control" and blasted so-called "liberal judges" after a woman was set on fire in the deep-blue city last week — allegedly by a man ...