CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago woman has created a new tool for styling hair. Connie Boatman-Tate grew up in Cabrini-Green and had an unconventional path, but ended up as an inventor. "When I was growing ...

On March 28, artists Jan Tichy and Efrat Appel put 134 self-contained, battery-powered LED modules in each of Chicago high-rise housing project Cabrini-Green’s 134 vacated apartments. Cabrini-Green ...

The Chicago Housing Authority is again regrouping on a key slice of its long-delayed Near North Side redevelopment after the withdrawal of its developer partners threw plans for hundreds of units into ...

CHICAGO – On the morning of Oct. 13, 1992, 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was walking to school with his mother when a gang member’s stray bullet struck and killed the boy on the grounds of the ...

A South Chicago man was ordered detained Tuesday in connection with the fatal shooting of a 46-year-old man in River North, whom defense attorneys claimed had previously shot him. Judge John Hock ...

A man was found shot to death on the city's North Side early Sunday morning, Chicago police said. Officers responded to a call about a person shot in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood's 800-block of ...

ANACMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, ...

The ensemble of Elvis Presley Was a Black Man Named Joe performs "Jailhouse Rock." Credit: Alan Davis Jackie Taylor, founder and CEO of Black Ensemble Theater (BET), has spent many years creating ...

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