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CHICAGO — In trying to upend longtime U.S. Rep. Danny Davis in Illinois' 7th Congressional District Democratic primary, Melissa Conyears-Ervin is getting help from the pulpit as more than two dozen Black clergy leaders backed her candidacy Wednesday. Conyears-Ervin — Chicago’s city treasurer and wife of West Side Alderman Jason Ervin, 28th Ward — is one of the leading contenders running ...

A development group in Woodlawn is jump-starting stalled efforts to spur buildout in the neighborhood and retool area schools.

Dignitaries from the Chicagoland area attended the PUSH Excel 34th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Breakfast.

John Prayer, Sr. passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the The News Courier on 2023-11-20.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson appointed executives from the Chicagoland Apartment Association and developer Sterling Bay to transition team subcommittees.

/PRNewswire/ -- Woodlawn Central (WC), an 8-acre, $895 million mixed-use megadevelopment designed to be a catalyst for urban regeneration in Woodlawn, has...

Plans to repurpose the former James Wadsworth Elementary School in Woodlawn into a temporary shelter for asylum seekers has been met with controversy. City officials delayed opening the site to allow for more community feedback.

Some 250 migrants — single men and women who are mostly asylum seekers — will move into the vacant Wadsworth school building in Woodlawn starting the week of Jan. 23.

The Apostolic Church of God is pursuing redevelopment for its eight acres near 63rd Street and Dorchester Avenue, where the goal is community improvement without displacement.

Construction is underway of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park and residents on the southside are bracing for what it will mean for their communities — benefits or displacement.