CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

2007: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, which ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 9, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event ...

Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, practiced law here but always went home to Springfield. Ulysses S. Grant, born in Ohio, ...

What do you get when 3,000 Chicago Public Schools students join forces during Black History Month to sing? Soulful and ...

Chicago’s path to being a sanctuary city began more than 40 years ago. Here’s a look back at the leaders and laws that have shaped Chicago’s involvement with the sanctuary movement. July 18, 1982: ...

Yes, the rest, as they say, is history, and now the Mount Carmel senior is chasing history, trying to become just the 15th ...

Once upon a time, Virginia McCaskey inherited memorabilia from a cousin, a collection that included a box of old ticket stubs ...

The only Black-owned skating rink in Illinois has touched lives for decades. In a Fox 32 special report, Terrence Lee takes ...

The Bulls were on the end of some unwanted history against the Warriors. Curry scored 34 points in 34 minutes. In the process ...

Shota Imanaga will take the mound for the Chicago Cubs in his return to Japan next month, joining Daisuke Matsuzaka and Yusei Kikuchi in the history books.

The Chicago Bulls played host to the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night, a contest between two teams heading in ...