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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson is pivoting from his role as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which got its start in 1971. In the decades since, he's fought for social justice, ...

CHICAGO (KFSN) -- Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, 76, has announced he is battling Parkinson's disease, the illness that took his father's life. Jackson said over the last three years, he ...

Jesse Jackson was released from a hospital here Sunday afternoon after being admitted a day earlier for muscle pain, a hospital spokesman said. The civil rights leader walked into the University of ...

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND A CALL TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG PEOPLE TO GET OUT AND VOTE FROM A VERY FAMILIAR FACE. DUKE CARTER CAUGHT UP WITH THE REVEREND JESSE JACKSON AT BROWN DEER HIGH SCHOOL. QUIET SIGH ...

CHICAGO -- Rev. Jesse Jackson was released from the hospital Tuesday after he fell at a protest at Howard University earlier this week, a spokesperson said. Jackson had been in Washington D.C. to ...

CHICAGO -- Chicago's Rev. Jesse Jackson will accept France's highest order of merit, Legion of Honour. Rev. Jackson, 79, will receive the award in France Monday morning. He has been a civil rights ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Reverend Jesse Jackson is in the hospital Sunday, recovering from an "operation," according to the Rainbow Push Coalition. Jackson was hospitalized Thursday at Northwestern Memorial ...

Jesse Jackson's early activism laid the foundation for a lifelong legacy of leadership and change. Before he became a civil rights icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson made history by challenging library ...