UIC's rendering of what the proposed North Lawndale site might look like. The proposed UIC sites may not be as sexy, but as many supporters argue, it's about as transformative as you can get, with the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --West Side residents staged a rally Thursday to make their case for building the proposed Obama Presidential Library in North Lawndale. Under a proposal from the University of Illinois ...

Sun-Times Media Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at Soldier Field in 1966, the year he and his family took up residence in North Lawndale If Chicago truly were a meritocracy—where planning decisions ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- West Side elected officials are using this President's Day to raise support for an Obama Presidential Library on the West Side. WBBM's Craig Dellimore reports at United Missionary ...

Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times Media This vacant lot in North Lawndale could become the site of the Obama Presidential Library. I think the best way to illuminate the latest twists and turns in the ...

The University of Illinois at Chicago plans to submit a lofty proposal to create an Obama presidential library corridor, using public transportation to link its Near West Side academic campus to a ...

Melissa McCollum, the community library manager of the Los Angeles County Public Library in Lawndale, is one of 10 librarians across the nation to earn the Carnegie Corp. of New York and New York ...

It may be full of books, but the way county librarian Margaret Donnellan Todd sees it, a library should be about more than just reading. That’s why she’s not surprised that the kaleidoscopic glass ...

Guests can support Lawndale Art Center’s exhibitions and programs while feasting on art, libations, and picnic brunch provided by Kenny & Ziggy’s in Lawndale’s newly-renovated Mary E. Bawden Sculpture ...

They came to support someone they called an educator, a friend and a father. Holding signs, dozens of parents on Tuesday walked several blocks from the Lawndale library to Lawndale School District ...