CHICAGO (WLS) -- A vigil is being held for Quintonio LeGrier, the 19-year-old shot by Chicago police Saturday morning. Quintonio LeGrier graduated from Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep in 2013.

I discovered Gwendolyn Brooks when she won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Chicago’s newspapers applauded her. She was a Chicagoan, a woman, and the first African American thus honored.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Poet Gwendolyn Brooks would have turned 100 this week, and that birthday is being commemorated with new books, poetry readings, writing contests and even a bus tour through her hometow ...