NASCAR officials visited the Union League Boys and Girls Club in Pilsen to inspire local youth, provide hands-on racing ...

June saw the loss of several influential figures in music, sports, and beyond. Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The ...

Young’s Motorsports announced that NASCAR Xfinity Series veteran Anthony Alfredo would compete full-time for the team in its ...

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s address to Catholics during the “Chicago Celebrates Pope Leo XIV” event at Rate Field, the home of the Chicago White Sox baseball team, on ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered a video message June 14 to thousands of Catholics gathered in his hometown of Chicago, making a special appeal to young people to be “beacons” of Christ’s hope for others.

Pope Leo XIV delivered a video message June 14 to thousands of Catholics gathered in his hometown of Chicago, making a special appeal to young people to be “beacons” of Christ’s hope for others.

Hoover, 74, the co-founder of the Chicago gang Gangster Disciples, was already serving a 200-year sentence on state charges in Illinois for the 1973 murder of 19-year-old neighborhood drug dealer ...

Strangers help young boys injured in Chicago stabbing tied to Amber Alert The suspect in the stabbings, 39-year-old Marcus Bausley, fled to northwest Indiana, where he tripped a license plate ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, radical Puerto Rican activist and civil rights icon, passed away on January 10, 2025. He was 76. Best known for co-founding the revolutionary Young Lords—which began as a ...

ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch "Cha Cha" Jimenez was the founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition.

The founder of the Young Lords Organization died Friday, Jan. 10. José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, the renowned civil rights activist and founder of the Puerto Rican civil rights group Young Lords ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, left, founder of the Young Lords in Chicago, attends a news conference led by Bobby L. Rush, deputy defense minister of the Illinois Black Panther Party, in 1969.