Rev. Jesse Jackson’s career as a civil rights leader and politician took him across the country and around the world, yet he remained close to Illinois.

The civil rights leader spent six decades fighting to support Black students and the schools that serve them through protests ...

The Belleville News-Democrat has contacted candidates running in the 13th congressional district Democratic primary on March ...

Flags were lowered to half-staff this morning in South Carolina, where civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson will lie in repose at the state capitol.

Elementary schools define communities. They are the hearts and souls of neighborhoods. When they close, it can feel like ...

Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran ...

Several men that were involved in a fight in the Macon County Jail in February were also connected to a shots fired incident — where police found 179 spent shell casings — ...

New York City police are investigating after officers were pelted with snowballs while responding to a massive snowball fight ...

Iran’s attacks are spreading across the Middle East as Tehran fires missiles and allied militias are joining the fight ...

Firefighters responded Thursday afternoon to a large fire at a vacant home in Decatur, where flames were seen coming from the ...

Britney Spears has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol near her Southern ...

A Decatur woman accused of intentionally running her car into another vehicle that contained her ex was released ahead of her trial. 29-year-old Alexis M. Leffler was arrested ...