The list of headliners coming to the 2025 Illinois State Fair Grandstand stage keeps on growing. Legendary rock band The Black Crowes has been added to the Springfield lineup, according to a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - Rock band The Black Crowes are coming to perform at the Illinois State Fair on August 9. The Black Crowes debuted in 1990. The band has sold over 30 million albums ...

Note: A previous version of this story ran in December 2023. In the 1920s and ’30s, Chicago was home for the burgeoning Black aviation community, a place of opportunity that was central to Black ...

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Feb 12 (Reuters) - The family of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who was fatally shot by police in Illinois in July 2024, will receive $10 million as part of a settlement with officials from Sangamon ...

The City Of Evanston officials announced $17 million of its reparations fund would be transferred to Black-owned Liberty Bank And Trust. EVANSTON, ILLINOIS – MARCH 23: A Black Lives Matter sign ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Friday, Feb. 7, will mark 160 years since Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state and gave those already in the state just 10 days to get out.

Established in the 1830s, Brooklyn started as a refuge for free and enslaved Black people. Brooklyn, Illinois, considered the oldest Black settlements in U.S. history, is dying, leaving its legacy ...

You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or that it’s thought to be the first majority-Black town in America ...

The wasp species known as the "velvet ant" has a pattern of white and ultra-black coloration. © shrike2 via iNaturalist under CC BY-NC 4.0 The Caatinga is a stark ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A federal investigation is under way after racist text messages were sent to Black people all across the country—including some in Illinois. There were a number of variations of ...

In the late 1960s, the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party distributed free breakfast to schoolchildren at a youth services center in North Lawndale. On Sunday, several former chapter ...