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During winter 2021, South Side labor organizer Anthony Driver was excited to be a part of Black Bench Chicago’s first cohort. As the Service Employees International Union Healthcare’s political and legislative coordinator and a former aldermanic candidate for the 20th Ward, he was selected to be part of the program in which a Black leadership pipeline can be developed and knowledge from ...

Hyde Park liquor store owner and educational nonprofit CEO Jonathan Swain is the latest candidate in the crowded race to replace U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush.

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The Chicago program's old-guard Black leaders want to ensure they pass on the knowledge they have acquired to the new generation of Black leaders.