It was the first of 13 plaques to be placed around Chicago denoting historic sites of the Black Panther Party. They were ...

As part of WGN’s Black History Month coverage, Micah Materre hosted a half-hour special featuring an exclusive conversation with surviving members of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther ...

This is the first of 12 plaques that will be installed across the Chicago area. Infant bites to death cobra that coiled around his hands 6 people in critical condition after 11 stabbed at Michigan ...

The Illinois childhood home of Hampton, an iconic Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed during a 1969 police raid of his Chicago apartment, has been designated a historical landmark.

"Judas and the Black Messiah" dramatizes the life and death of Fred Hampton, the former chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party who was killed by Chicago police in 1969.