1WORLD Sports hosted its second annual Chicago Blackhawks “Event To Inspire”Jan. 19 at Johnny’s Ice House West to teach 60 Chicago Housing Authority youths valuable life lessons through sports.

CHICAGO - Teen employment in Illinois last year dropped to its lowest level in more than 40 years, with minorities and youth from low-income homes among the hardest hit, according to a report released Tuesday.

After a more than six-year battle with Chicago's city council to get a Walmart store approved in his South Side ward, Ald. Howard Brookins (21st) is proud to see the doors open Wednesday at the new Walmart on 83rd Street and Stewart Avenue.

United Airlines, the world's largest airline, has named an African-American chief pilot of one its five U.S. regions. Captain James Simons, Jr., a United Airlines pilot for 22 years, will manage 1,450 pilots for the Chicago-based airline's Northeast Region, which is headquartered at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va.

CHICAGO (AP) - If the new big-budget film, "Red Tails," inspires you to learn more about the Tuskegee Airmen, there's a way to do that in Chicago.

When the African-American community heard George Lucas of “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” fame couldn't easily get "Red Tails" financed because of the all-Black cast, they promised to support the film in droves. The film placed No. 2 in box office sales over the weekend reaching $19.1 million in ticket sales. But the real story is why.

Chicago-based Pink Lady Ballers’ 8th Grade Division team defeated the Lady Tornados 47-24 Jan. 21 in the Baylor Youth Foundation's Winter Ball Fest at Indiana University-Northwest in Gary, Ind.

Wearing their signature red ties, 1,200 students from Chicago’s Urban Prep High School’s three campuses attended a special opening-day screening Jan. 20 at Showplace Icon Theatre on West Roosevelt Road to see Red Tails, the new film about the famed Tuskegee Airmen. All of this thanks to the benevolence and generosity of two Urban Prep supporters, Byron Trott, founder, chair and CEO of BDT Capital Partners, and E. Robbie Robin-son, the firm’s principal.

During election season, some people watch the debates, attend forums, track endorsements and follow the polls. Others show little to no interest in the races. If you fall in the latter category and think your vote doesn't matter, then I would like to put something on your mind.

CVCA student chefs, winners of the Healthy Schools Campaign's Cooking up Change contest, prepared a healthy lunch for their peers Jan. 19.

The families of Yasmin Acree and sisters Diamond and Tionda Bradley hopes the new series “Find Our Missing” on TV One cable network will bring in new leads to seemingly cold missing persons cases of color.