Former track and field athlete Jadin O’Brien has made the U.S. Olympic bobsled team. O'Brien will compete as a push athlete for five-time Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor. As a child, O'Brien ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man has been sentenced to multiple decades in prison for the Chinatown shooting death of a 71-year-old man who was out for a walk nearly four years ago. Alphonso Joyner was found ...

At the beginning of the Cold War in 1949, Jackie Robinson appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee to disavow the comments of another prominent Black American, actor, singer and ...

More than two weeks have passed since John Forté, a Grammy-nominated rapper who rose to fame in the 1990s, died. The 50-year-old was found dead on Jan. 12 in his home in Chilmark, Massachusetts, per ...

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Herman Shaw, right, standing beside Edwardsville mayor Art Risavy, was a local legend in Edwardsville for helping break segregation barriers in the schools — and for his excellence in multiple sports.

When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey met Jackie Robinson in 1945 to recruit him as Major League Baseball’s first black player, he tested Robinson’s resolve. He unleashed a barrage of ...

Beloved Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow have laid their first egg of the season. Beloved Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow, watched by thousands online, have a history of both successful ...

Houston, we have an egg! In major news for followers of Southern California’s most famous feathered power couple, bald eagles Jackie and Shadow have welcomed their first egg of the 2026 season in ...