To walk into the First Baptist Church of North Chicago at 9 a.m. on a Sunday is to enter a maddening overlap of voices bouncing off the wooden-beamed cathedral ceiling, competing to be heard. Two S… ...

Betty Jean Jackson, 69, of North Chicago, IL, went to rest in her heavenly place on Friday, August 1, 2008. She was born November 28, 1938 in Holland, GA to the late Felton and Rosa Silmon.She was … ...

“I first set foot in this space before probably all of you were born,” Obama told 30 students from the University of Chicago and Columbia University gathered around him in the church’s basement.