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President-Elect Donald Trump’s plans to reshape education in America, including eliminating the Department of education and ...

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John Catanzara, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, said he doesn’t want to see a repeat of what happened ...

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The president elect’s housing agenda was light on specifics during the campaign, but his former housing czar’s plans are ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force on Tuesday presented its ongoing findings on the important role Illinois played in the history of helping slaves reach freedom. The ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 ...

The confirmation of April M. Perry ends a rocky trek that saw her nomination as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of ...

This holiday season, ABC7 Chicago is kicking off its annual Feed the Love campaign to help raise awareness about the critical and growing problem of food insecurity.