As America turns 250 years old in 2026, CBS News Chicago is looking back at two presidents who called Illinois home.

With the exception of a brief rift in 2008, the two publicly maintained mutual respect. A family representative told Snopes ...

In February 2026, a video (archived) spread online purportedly showing people chanting "Four more years!" during a White ...

As a student in North Carolina A&T, Jackson gradually became involved with the civil rights movement. In 1960, he was ...

Presidents who could speak truth to power are so constrained by their devotion to norms that they won’t confront a president ...

Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights activist, left behind a legacy of Black empowerment that helped transform Black political representation in the United States, paving the way for future leaders ...

In his visit to Ottawa Hills High School, Chef Cliff Rome told students that food and curiosity can open doors that degrees alone cannot.

President Donald Trump has hosted a White House reception for Black History Month, less than two weeks after he sparked a bipartisan outcry by posting a racist video on social media that depicted ...

"I love him," Forlesia Cook said of Trump at the Black History Month event. "I don't want to hear nothing you got to say ...

“From Martin Luther King to Barack Obama, there’s a bridge called Jesse Jackson,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said. Jackson, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who led the Civil Rights Movement for ...

On the comedy program, Jackson paid tribute to famed author Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel, who had recently passed ...

A federal judge on Monday compared the Trump administration to George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth from 1984, quoting the ...