Since Carter's passing, there has been an outpouring of goodwill for the former president, whose legacy invokes images of peanut farms and the wooden frames of houses he helped build. But for many Salvadoran Americans, like me, his memory is … complicated.

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.

When Jimmy Carter ran for president, he was barely known outside of his home state. He had served in the Georgia State Senate and as governor of Georgia, but was far from a household name. What gave momentum to his campaign and endeared him to the youth ...

Jimmy Carter, whose official state funeral will be held Thursday in Washington, D.C., was introduced to Chicago at a South Shore church during the 1976 presidential campaign. He later returned to work on a Habitat for Humanity project in West Garfield Park,

The nation paid its final respects on Thursday to former President Jimmy Carter, who died at 100 on Dec. 29.

Sarah Wollenweber, right, and son London Wollenweber traveled form Bloomington, Illinois to Plains, Georgia, to pay tribute to former President Jimmy Carter. “I started researching presidents, senators and representatives, and Jimmy Carter stuck out to ...

The state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter begins Saturday in his home state. Follow for updates on the motorcade from Plains to Atlanta

It’s not often citizens get to see presidents up close and personal, but back when I was teaching in Illinois’ capital city of Springfield, I did.” | Opinion

Good morning, Chicago. Brooklyn, Illinois, is considered to be one of the country’s first Black settlements, the first majority-Black town in America to incorporate and the oldest such-town still in existence today.

When you look at Jimmy Carter, you don’t see a politician, you see a great human, and a friend in all of us.” − London Wollenweber, a high school student from Bloomington Illinois visiting ...