CHICAGO -- Abner J. Mikva died Monday afternoon of cancer in hospice care at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center at age 90. A rare feat, Mikva served in every branch of government. He was a ...

Learning to take action is a major goal for Waukegan High School civics students participating in the annual Mikva Challenge. In fact, two of the groups are primed to lobby members of the Waukegan ...

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In the fall of 1948, a University of Chicago Law School student and Army Air Corps veteran was strolling by the storefront headquarters of the local Democratic ward organization. Inspired by the party ...

Abner Mikva, who served as a White House adviser, federal judge, congressman and mentor to President Barack Obama, has died at age 90, his Chicago non-profit organization said on Tuesday. Mikva, who ...

CHICAGO — Abner Mikva, a liberal stalwart from Illinois who served in all three branches of the federal government, mentored a young Barack Obama and famously learned firsthand the brazen nature of ...

CHICAGO — Liberal Illinois politician Abner Mikva, who served in all three branches of federal government and in state government, has died. He was 90. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Abner Mikva, an influential liberal from Illinois who served in Congress, the federal judiciary and as a White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, has died. He was 90. Mikva died ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Democracy is a verb." That's the unofficial motto of the Mikva Challenge. The organization was founded on the premise that civic and political life is better when young people are ...

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Around Christmas time in 2006, then-Sen. Barack Obama called and asked to arrange a meeting with him, Abner Mikva and me in my office. When we met, Obama told us that he was going to Hawaii with his ...

The cast and crew, left to right: Sarah Landman, Myra Gutterman, Michele Gray Thaler (seated), Toby Klein Greenwald, Malka Abrahams, Riva Schertzman, Adina Feldman, Yael Valier At the end of August, I ...