In July 1893, James Cornish was admitted to Chicago's Provident Hospital with a knife wound to his chest, stemming from a barroom brawl. ... Dr. Daniel Hale Williams cut a small hole into Cornish's ...

Aaliyah Stewart, 24, helps a Williams Elementary Student zip up her new coat Wednesday morning. Stewart's nonprofit, I Am Them, received 40 coats to donate to children in Gary.

Northwestern named Pritzker Prof. Zachary Clopton as interim dean of the Pritzker School of Law on Wednesday for a two-year term beginning July 22. Clopton, a civil litigation scholar who joined ...

POWHATAN – When invited to come and speak to Pocahontas Middle School students in recognition of Black History Month, special guest speaker Dr. Delmar P. Wright said he had any ...

Wright grew up in Powhatan County and graduated from Powhatan High School. In 1976, he was hired by then Sheriff Nelson Batterson as the county’s first black deputy sheriff.