Longtime Chicago political activist and author Rebecca Sive, who once served on the Chicago Park District Board of ...

Harold Washington, Chicago's first Black mayor, would have turned 100 today. CHICAGO (WLS) -- The city of Chicago celebrated what would have been Harold Washington's 100th birthday Friday.

Washington died 28 years ago while working in his office, but Mayor Harold Washington Legacy Committee remembers him every year. Washington became Chicago's first African American mayor in 1983.

Object Details Commissioned by Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Washington, American, 1987 - 1987 Printed by Graphic Communications International Union, 1983 - 2005 Subject of Harold Washington, American, ...

Washington and Mamdani hail from vastly different places, geographically and culturally. Harold, from Chicago’s South Side, was a World War II vet and a seasoned politician who became mayor at ...

Mayor Harold Washington, shaking hands with a supporter in 1983, issued more vetoes in his four years than all other modern-day Chicago mayors combined.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem used a visit to the Chicago area on Friday to criticize Illinois politicians, blasting Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson at a press conference ...