Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years despite challenges over his health, the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice ...

Outside Jackson's home in Chicago, several people laid roses, left balloons and prayed as a tribute to the man who inspired ...

Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson died at 84. Here's what we know about his legacy and the work he did in Illinois.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday, had a long history with Arkansas. He attended the National Black Political ...

Mr. Jackson, who spent much of his life in the city, died at his home there on Tuesday. “He ushered in new politics in ...

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate, has died.

Tributes are pouring in from Chicago residents and Illinois leaders remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson after his death at the age ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's life was tied tightly to the city of Chicago and its people going back to when he first arrived in ...

Jackson sought and relished the limelight, on television, magazine covers and protests. But his journey always led him right ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister and civil rights leader who twice sought to be the Democratic Party's nominee for ...