Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has announced that six state residents will receive the Order of Lincoln for professional ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a civil rights advocate, author and ordained minister, will deliver the keynote address for a Black History Month program at the downtown Embassy Suites.

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no ...

Greatness often comes quietly and obscurely. Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president, was born on Sunday morning Feb. 12, ...