For the third time in the last 6 days, another line of nasty storms rolled through Chicago on Wednesday evening. In this clip you will see three of the tallest buildings in Chicago get struck by lightning at the same time.

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Our great friends over at Chicago's AM 1200 WCHB covered The Rainbow PUSH Coalition 39th Annual Conference. Radio personality, Mildred Gaddis took her show on the road to broadcast live from the event.

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// From the Chicago Tribune: Anthony Kyser didn’t have money for the tubes of toothpaste he stuffed in his jacket before he walked out of a Little Village CVS store Saturday morning. He paid with his life, instead. Chased out of the store and down a litter-strewn alley shortly before 11 a.m., the 35-year-old unemployed […]

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From ChicagoBreakingNews.com: About 700 students gathered in front of Chicago Public Schools headquarters this morning to protest drastic budget cuts which they say they are already starting to feel. “It started with JV sports, then they started cutting teachers – What’s next?” asked Somyiah Nance, a 15-year-old freshman at Whitney Young High School. The students […]

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From The Chicago Tribune By Ronald Hampton, Executive Director, National Black Police Association A police department’s officers are trained to enable Constitutional due process safeguards. Armies are not designed with this purpose – armies are trained to kill. The suggestion of the National Guard to be deployed in black and Mexican neighborhoods in Chicago is […]

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The weather has taken a turn for the better in the past couple of days and most people have been enjoying the sun but not residents on the Southside of Chicago. In just a matter of two days a total of 41 people have been shot, which includes 4 deaths, in 31 different incidents. “Between […]

The Destiny’s Child alumni talked to the host about everything from her role as Roxie Hart in Broadway’s ‘Chicago’ (she's made history!) to leaving Mathew Knowles’ Music World.

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Via CNN: (Feb. 10) -- A small pre-dawn earthquake has hit northern Illinois, startling residents as far away as Michigan and Iowa, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported.

In 1928 Oscar DePriest became the first African American congressman elected to the House of Representatives from a northern state and a national symbol for racial pride. Read more on Oscar DePriest here.

WOTS... Destiny Child's Michelle Williams will be stepping in to fill the role that Ashlee Simpson had in the Broadway hit "Chicago" (you go girl!)