Bags filled with $40,000 worth of food were purchased by the Progressive Baptist Chruch and Salem Baptist Church of Chicago, ...

As the government shutdown reaches day 35, delays in SNAP funding are leaving thousands of Chicago families without food ...

Before he was old enough to read and write, Jonathan K. Merritt fell in love with church music. He started piano lessons when he was 5; he got his first organ at 8. By 15, he was the pianist at Hot ...

October 28, 2025. The following are recent obituary notices from Austin and Barnes and Hampton funeral homes in Boone and Reins-Sturdivant in Newland. Read more ...

The busy intersection of 79th Street, Stony Island and South Chicago avenues — where the Chicago Skyway ramps lash overhead and the suited-and-booted Nation of Islam brothers sell the Final Call ...

The Mt. Zion Baptist Church in the ghost town of Rodney, Mississippi, is in a severe state of decay. The historic church was featured in the 2014 James Brown biopic, "Get On Up," directed by Tate ...

A person who previously accused Patrick Stephen Miller of improperly touching her will be allowed to testify at the kidnapping and sexual assault trial of the former Immanuel Baptist Church ministry ...

The Chicago Architecture Center’s free annual spectacle, Open House Chicago, returns this weekend, unlocking the doors to more than 200 sites that most of us might not otherwise see. Some old ...

A new affordable housing complex for seniors has opened in Wilmington’s Southbridge community. The project was developed by Ezion Fair Baptist Church to serve older adults in the area. The five ...

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month continues, a Montgomery County father is turning grief into purpose. John Conner from Elkins Park lost his 68-year-old wife, Anita, and 48-year-old daughter, Kerri, to ...