CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

Chicago's eastern boundary ... Bronzeville became a refuge for Black Americans looking to escape persecution in the South. As a result, this South Side neighborhood experienced a cultural boom ...

Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their civil rights were violated. In 1971, after a trial, U.S. District Judge Damon Keith ruled that the city had intentionally targeted ...

(AP) — Leslie Knox was a young girl in the 1960s when her Detroit-area city was accused of destroying neighborhoods ... Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their ...

On June 1, 1921, a white mob attacked the Greenwood neighborhood, a predominantly Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Many neighborhoods like this existed across the United States, where Black ...

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(WGN) — A south suburban chef is celebrating her one-year anniversary of opening the restaurant where she started her culinary career as a part of Chicago’s Black Restaurant Week, which kicked ...