Illinois flag voting closes this week. Here's how you can still cast ballots
As the state debates whether to adopt a new banner, Illinois flag voting will conclude this week, officials say.
In 1968, a southern Illinois native broke a major NBA color barrier
Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.
Black History Month: Celebrating the innovators, teachers and legends from Chicago and beyond
CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.
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Chicago is one step closer to adding a NCAA Division-I college football team
Chicago State hopes to be playing D-I college football in 2026. It's now officially seeking its first head coach.
Micah Parsons in a Chicago uniform? Bears Nation imagines the unimaginable
Staring at a star-starved defense, Chicago fans took to social media and begged the football deities to bring the superstar pass rusher to the Land of Lincoln.
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Fort Bragg 2.0: Army base reverts to its old name, but with a new namesake
A U.S. Army base originally named after a Confederate general, then renamed Fort Liberty, will revert to the name Fort Bragg.