Pritzker Traubert Foundation awards $5M Chicago Talent Challenge to City Colleges and Cook County Health
Pritzker Traubert Foundation is awarding $5 million to train and place Chicagoans into 1,000 health care jobs over the next three years.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson to lie in state at the South Carolina State House in Columbia
Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in state at the South Carolina State House, Monday, March 2. A public memorial service will follow.
Rev. Jesse Jackson was a ‘giant figure in the world,’ but he stayed rooted in Illinois
Rev. Jesse Jackson’s career as a civil rights leader and politician took him across the country and around the world, yet he remained close to Illinois.
Family of Rev. Jesse Jackson honors legacy of civil rights icon
Rev. Jackson's work and mission were remembered by his children outside the family home Wednesday.
A theater legacy continues in Schaumburg with Maurice Proffit and Dreamscape Theatre
Decades of the Proffit presence in the northwest suburbs continued in 2025 with the creation of the nonprofit Dreamscape Theatre. Their first work is a production of "School Girls; Or,...
Rev. Jesse Jackson remembered as one of the ‘last great leaders’ by Chicago friends and neighbors
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was remembered as a “servant leader” who championed the oppressed, voiceless and overlooked around the world.
Rev. Jesse Jackson: Minister, civil rights advocate, politician, intermediary and social justice proponent
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, has spent the last 60 years of his life in front of cameras advocating for social...
Short film series features local Black filmmakers at Facets, Music Box for Black History Month
The "Life Within the Lens" series is back at the Music Box Theatre for Black History Month, along with the "Sunday's Best" series at Facets.
WTTW’s new season of ‘Firsthand’ hopes to show that democracy is ‘a participatory sport’
The made-in-Chicago documentary series this season follows a teacher, a suburban grandmother and others who have found their own ways to fight for democracy.
Chicago Public Library Foundation president Brenda Langstraat Bui dies at 52
As leader of the nonprofit devoted to fundraising for the Chicago Public Library, she put her lifelong commitment to books and reading to work.