On Friday, November 16, 2012 WGCI, Chicago’s number 1 station for Hip Hop and R&B, along with Nike Basketball, presented the 107.5 WGCI 13th Annual Big Jam at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL.   Big Jam 2012 featured  a star-studded [...]

Over the weekend  approximately 20 ComEd volunteers repainted facilities at the South Austin tutoring and community center, Kidz Express. The company has already donated and installed new lighting and ComEd is donating furniture to the nonprofit. Established in 2005, services offered by Kidz Express include: after school programming, GED classes, health and nutrition, athletic fitness, [...]

The HistoryMakers welcomed and paid tribute to music icon Berry Gordy, Jr., founder of Motown Records, during An Evening with Berry Gordy on Saturday, November 17, 2012 at The Art Institute of Chicago. Award-winning journalist Gwen Ifill conducted the one-on-one interview that was personal, humorous, candid and insightful. The interview was taped before a live [...]

Maintaining its commitment to education and community outreach programs, the Black McDonald’s Operators Association of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana (BMOA) sent 500 students, grades K-8, on a field trip to the UniverSoul Circus in Washington Park on Wednesday morning, September 26. Students from Barnard, Medgar Evers, Melody, Deikman, Alex Haley, Pullman, Woodson South, and Hoover [...]