Still, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, former alderman and congressman Bobby Rush, and Jackson's sons — current U.S. Rep.

Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. wants to regain his 2nd Congressional District seat. He’s got a brutally long way to go.

The disgraced former congressman was first elected to the seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Jesse Jackson Jr. will launch a run to return to his former seat in Congress, ABC7 learned on Tuesday evening. A colleague confirmed that he will announce his campaign for Illinois' ...

In 2013, Jesse Jackson Jr pled guilty to misusing campaign funds and was sentenced to prison time; he was released in 2015 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

CHICAGO -- Rev. Jesse Jackson is getting involved in the case of a Chicago man who was captured on video being slammed to the ground by a police officer on Thanksgiving Day. Rev. Jackson tried to post ...