WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Longtime Chicago activist and organizer José "Cha Cha ... in school for throwing eggs at a bus on which the pastor was riding, according to the biography. Jiménez went on ...

With President Trump having announced plans for an immigration crackdown, a church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood is on alert. Pastor Emma Lozano said her members at the Lincoln United Methodist ...

A federal judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump's move to freeze all federal grants pending an analysis to root out ...

Frustrated that the American Railway Union had refused to accept Black railway workers, which by 1925 had swelled to more that 10,000 porters, Randolph led a push to form the Brotherhood of Sleeping ...

In Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood ... during the last presidential term of Donald Trump,” said Emma Lozano, a pastor at Lincoln United Methodist Church and longtime activist who founded Centro Sin ...

Emma Lozano will represent District 7a. (Illustration by Becky Vevea/Chalkbeat, map by Thomas Wilburn/Chalkbeat, photo by Mauricio Peña/Block Club Chicago) A pastor and long time immigration rights ...

Days before the second inauguration of Donald Trump, around 100 Binghamton activists gathered downtown in the snow ... including the Rev. Kimberly Chastain, the church’s pastor and head of ministry; ...

The pastor and immigrant rights activist was a key voice in a Chicago Tribune piece I featured at the end of the first newsletter; she chose to end in-person Spanish-language services at her church ...

The Rev. Jennifer Sanders, a pioneering lesbian pastor in Birmingham who once officiated ... But added, “You’ll still see me around in activist and other circles.” That includes her mission ...

Steven Nelson, convicted for the 2011 murder of a pastor, is scheduled for execution ... Anti-death penalty activists, including a priest who counsels death row inmates, are campaigning for ...