Mary Elizabeth King was running a group designed to boost the paltry number of women in the top ranks of the federal ...

Illinois residents may be surprised to find out United States Postal Service offices are closed one day this week, but it's not because of a federal holiday.

A man with a machete and three knives inside his bag was arrested at the entrance to the U.S. Capitol, as members of the ...

President Jimmy Carter ‘s legacy of giving back endures in several nonprofits he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, supported for ...

The nation's 39th president, who died Sunday at 100, was in Chicago many times over the years, as he rose from relative ...

Carter visited Chicago numerous times during his campaign for president in 1976, as president between 1977 and 1981, and ...

Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who struggled with a bad economy and a hostage crisis but went on to a long and ...

Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential bid got a big boost from Mayor Richard J. Daley. But when he ran for a second term in 1980, ...

Fox 32’s political reporter Paris Schutz has more on how a trip to Chicago helped boost the fortunes of Habitat for Humanity.

Former President Jimmy Carter’s ties to the Chicago area ran deep. He visited multiple times during his campaigning years, usually staying in the homes of local politicians or supporters from ...

Major trading markets and the federal government will take a break Thursday to commemorate the life of former President Jimmy ...

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In ...