Lifeguard Charles Leto is accused of fatally shooting 15-year-old Marjay Dotson and seriously injuring 14-year-old Jeremy ...

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in ...

The account was at the center of Mackey's case as it was the account through which he posted a meme jokingly encouraging ...

A federal appeals court has overturned the criminal conviction of far-right Twitter troll Douglass Mackey, who posted fake ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

Ald. Monique Scott (24th) and her brother, former Ald. Michael Scott say the park district has too few lifeguards, too little ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A teen shot and killed at a Douglass Park pool, allegedly by a lifeguard, will be laid to rest on Wednesday.

Mackey’s conviction stemmed from memes he posted urging Clinton supporters to ‘vote by text’ in 2016.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Park District said it has launched an investigation after a lifeguard was charged with shooting ...

Local residents gathered in Springfield to read “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Anti-slavery activist Frederick ...

Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...

The Unitarian Universalist Society of Grafton & Upton and the Grafton Public Library are hosting a public reading on July 5 ...