\n Jackson made a rare call when Clinton was mired in scandal\n <\/p>\n
Clinton shared a rare, personal story about Jackson calling the White House as Congress worked to impeach him in 1998.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said, \u2018I don\u2019t want to talk to you. I want you to go get Chelsea [Clinton],\u201d he said. \u201cKeep in mind. He\u2019s got all this other stuff going on. He called me to talk to my daughter, to make sure she had her head in the game. And he prayed with her on the phone. And you know, a lot of people, it would never even have occurred to them to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clinton said, \u201cthose are the things you remember.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n \n U.S. soldier honors Rev. Jesse Jackson for freeing him, 2 other POWs during Kosovo War\n <\/p>\n During an international tribute to Rev. Jackson in the Loop Thursday evening, former U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Andrew Ramirez recalled the work the civil rights leader did to free him and two other soldiers from captivity during the Kosovo War.<\/p>\n It was toward the end of President Clinton\u2019s second term in office. He, Staff Sgt. Christopher Stone and Spc. Steven Gonzales were ambushed and captured March 31, 1999, by Serbian soldiers while they were on a routine NATO observation patrol near the Macedonian-Yugoslav border.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring that time, we still didn\u2019t know what was going on but ultimately felt like they were going to just kill us,\u201d Ramirez told several international dignitaries during the event.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Andrew Ramirez, former U.S. Army Staff Sgt. speaks to dignitaries and family members of Rev. Jesse Jackson at the Hyatt Regency Corporate Offices in the West Loop, Thursday, March 5, 2026.<\/p>\n Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n But one day, the Serbian soldiers told the hostages they were being taken to a \u201cnicer prison.\u201d Ramirez recalled his hood being pulled off after walking through a doorway. He saw more TV cameras, then turned left and saw Jackson with an interfaith delegation.<\/p>\n Jackson was leading an ecumenical delegation, along with then-U.S. Rep. Rod Blagojevich, to negotiate the release of the three soldiers. Clinton advised against the trip, but Jackson persisted \u2014 and succeeded.<\/p>\n Clinton later honored Jackson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000.<\/p>\n \u201cI always have been very grateful for what he did, what he put himself through and the delegation of people that went with him,\u201d Ramirez said. \u201cThe path of life would\u2019ve been very different depending on what happened at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Clinton: \u201cWe had more in common than we thought\u201d\n <\/p>\n By Neil Steinberg<\/a>, Elvia Malag\u00f3n<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Former President Bill Clinton gives remarks honoring the Rev. Jesse Jackson at House of Hope in Chicago\u2019s Pullman neighborhood Friday.<\/p>\n Former President Bill Clinton said he wanted to be highly personal. He met Jackson at an anniversary celebrating the integration of Central High School in Little Rock.<\/p>\n \u201cI came to truly love Jesse Jackson,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cWe both had more in common than we thought. We were two guys born to single mothers, living in the South.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe was my friend when I needed him,\u201d Clinton told the crowd.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Rev. Al Sharpton delivers fiery speech: \u2018We won\u2019t go back!\u2019\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Al Sharpton delivers fiery speech at the House of Hope services for Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n In a fiery speech, Rev. Al Sharpton said the country is \u201csitting on the brink of some of the most serious reconstruction behavior being rescinded that we\u2019ve seen in modern times.\u201d And he told the audience, \u201cDon\u2019t sit here so holy and sanctified and act like you have no assignment yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTo leave here not following the assignment would not be what Jesse Jackson taught us. To make us feel good, we went to Jesse Jackson. But people at the same time are killing illegal immigrants. People at the same time are cutting public funding. At the same time, the Affordable Care Act is not being renewed and seniors have to deal with premiums,\u201d Sharpton said.<\/p>\n Sharpton said the Jackson family \u201cplanted a platform that led to an empowerment.\u201d<\/p>\n He said they \u201cwent against the southern bigots in the overalls,\u201d but now, \u201cWe\u2019re dealing with manicured Fifth Avenue bigots.\u201d<\/p>\n He also offered a critique for those who didn\u2019t support Kamala Harris as president in 2024: \u201cThere was a breakout in 2024 called \u2018Negro amnesia,\u2019\u201d Sharpton said appearing to refer to Black folks forgetting where they came from.<\/p>\n \u201cThe problem is not Trump, the problem is us,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are allowing ourselves to be lowered. And our children to be inferior,\u201d Sharpton said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat happened to us?\u201d Rev. Al Sharpton asked with indignation. <\/p>\n \u201cWe should do what Jesse Jackson did. Not look at what you can see. But at what you can believe even if you can\u2019t see. We gotta win … we didn\u2019t come this far to turn around now.\u201d<\/p>\n Sharpton said he wants the audience to \u201cleave here with some Jackson fire in you.\u201d He said America is celebrating its 250th anniversary, \u201cbut we were not free in 1776.\u201d<\/p>\n Rev. Sharpton endend his speech to loud applause by chanting, \u201cWe won\u2019t go back! We won\u2019t go back!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n For Biden, hope can come out of grief\n <\/p>\n Biden often evokes the grief he experienced in the painful losses of his wife and young daughter in 1992 and his son Beau to cancer in 2015. He mentioned those losses several times in his Jackson eulogy.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not easy, no matter how much you loved them and how close you were. So I just like to express my deep sympathy,\u201d Biden said to begin his address.<\/p>\n The former president talked about \u201closing so many people in my family,\u201d but also offered up a bit of hope about the stages of grief.<\/p>\n \u201cThe day will come when his memory brings a smile to your lips before bringing a tear to your eye,\u201d Biden said. \u201cIt will come. It will come. And my prayer to you is that it comes sooner than later.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Biden rebukes the Trump administration\n <\/p>\n Former President Joe Biden also offered up a rebuke to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re in a tough spot folks. We\u2019ve got an administration that doesn\u2019t share any of the values that we have,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think I\u2019m exaggerating a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Former president Joe Biden honors the Rev. Jesse Jackson at House of Hope in Chicago\u2019s Pullman neighborhood Friday.<\/p>\n Candace Dane Chambers\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Joe Biden admired Jackson\u2019s passion\n <\/p>\n By Alden Loury | WBEZ<\/a>, Neil Steinberg<\/a><\/p>\n As former President Joe Biden took the stage, he joked, \u201cThat clock is wrong.\u201d The crowd laughed.<\/p>\n The clock read a few minutes past 2 p.m., which was when the event was supposed to end.<\/p>\n Biden described Jesse Jackson as \u201cunderrated, undeterred and unafraid.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe had very different backgrounds, and in some cases different views, but never on race,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes we went toe-to-toe and disagreed about issues. But that\u2019s what I admired most about Jesse: his passion. The courage of his convictions.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Obama takes aim at Trump, says Jackson inspires Americans to be \u2018heralds of change\u2019\n <\/p>\n At the end of his nearly 30-minute eulogy, Obama took a turn and offered up a pointed critique of the Trump administration. He said Americans are living in hard times and \u201cit\u2019s hard to hope,\u201d with each day bringing \u201csome new assault on our democratic institutions, another setback to the idea of the rule of law, an offense to common needs.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEvery day you wake up to things you just didn\u2019t think were possible. Each day we\u2019re told … to fear each other, to turn on each other and that some Americans count more than others, and that some don\u2019t even count at all,\u201d Obama said. \u201cEverywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength. We see science and expertise denigrated while ignorance and dishonesty and cruelty and corruption are reaping untold rewards every day.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Former President Barack Obama honoring the Rev. Jesse Jackson at House of Hope in Chicago\u2019s Pullman neighborhood Friday.<\/p>\n Obama said it\u2019s \u201ctempting for some to compromise with power,\u201d or to simply put your head down.<\/p>\n \u201cBut this man,\u201d Obama said pointing to Jackson\u2019s casket, \u201cRev. Jesse Louis Jackson, inspires us to take a harder path. His voice called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope, to step forward and say, \u2018Send me wherever we have a chance to make an impact, whether it\u2019s in our schools, our workplaces, our neighborhoods, our cities, not for faith, not for glory or because success is guaranteed, but because it gives our life purpose.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Jennifer Hudson sings \u201cA Change is Gonna Come\u201d\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jennifer Hudson sings \u201cA Change is Gonna Come\u201d at the House of Hope service for Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n Following on the heels of former President Barack Obama, Jennifer Hudson, a Chicago native from the Englewood community on the South Side, belts out the civil rights anthem \u201cA Change is Gonna Come.\u201d<\/p>\n Much of the crowd rose to its feet as the EGOT-winner performed.<\/p>\n \u201cThat girl can sing,\u201d said one member of the crowd.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Obama mentions the \u2018Joshua Generation\u2019 in the civil rights struggle\n <\/p>\n Former President Barack Obama mentioned the \u201cJoshua Generation\u201d in his remarks at Jackson\u2019s service \u2014 a reference I\u2019ve heard Obama often use through the years.<\/p>\n But I heard it for the first time when Obama used it in a speech on March 4, 2007 from the pulpit of the historic Brown Chaple A.M.E. church in Selma, Alabama. It was during the Democratic presidential primary, and chief rival Hillary Clinton was also speaking in town that day, in another church a few blocks away.<\/p>\n In the context of the civil rights movement, the early fighters for equality were part of the Moses generation. They eventually passed the baton \u2013 to the Joshua generation, whose ranks, said Obama, include himself.<\/p>\n As Obama said that day in 2007, \u201cI\u2019m here because somebody marched. I\u2019m here because you all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I thank the Moses generation; but we\u2019ve got to remember, now, that Joshua still had a job to do. As great as Moses was, despite all that he did, leading a people out of bondage, he didn\u2019t cross over the river to see the Promised Land. God told him your job is done. You\u2019ll see it. You\u2019ll be at the mountain top and you can see what I\u2019ve promised. What I\u2019ve promised to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. You will see that I\u2019ve fulfilled that promise but you won\u2019t go there. We\u2019re going to leave it to the Joshua generation to make sure it happens..\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Attendees shout out Michelle Obama, who is not in attendance\n <\/p>\n Former First Lady Michelle Obama is noticeably absent from the Chicago ceremony, with former President Barack Obama seated next to former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady Jill Biden.<\/p>\n Last year Michelle Obama missed the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter and the second inauguration of President Trump, with former President Obama attending both events alone. Her absence from the Carter funeral even sparked false rumors about a pending divorce.<\/p>\n Michelle Obama tried to clear the air in an April 2025 podcast with the actress Sophia Bush, telling her people \u201ccouldn\u2019t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself, that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI chose to do what\u2019s best for me, not what I had to do,\u201d she said about skipping an event last year.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Michelle Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment about her absence.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Jackson reminds Americans of their duty, Obama said\n <\/p>\n Obama said that in these times, when democracy and decency are assaulted daily, Jackson reminds us of our American duty: \u201cIf we don\u2019t step up, no one else will.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Hyde Park barbershop is glued to Jackson\u2019s service on TV: \u2018Everybody has been watching all day\u2019\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n At Hyde Park Hair Salon, longtime barber A.C. Chandler cuts the hair of customer Arthur Dennis as the salon\u2019s two televisions both stream Rev. Jackson\u2019s celebration of life services.<\/p>\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n Over at Hyde Park Hair Salon, longtime barber A.C. Chandler spent the day reminiscing about events with Rainbow PUSH and about the salon\u2019s time cutting the hair of Jesse Jackson Jr. and U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson.<\/p>\n The hair salon, which famously counts former President Barack Obama as a one-time client, streamed the Friday services on both televisions at the salon.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody has been watching all day,\u201d Chandler, 46, said.<\/p>\n He and his client, Arthur Dennis, spent the appointment pointing out people they knew at the funeral.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were just talking about people that we know within our circle that\u2019s either active members involved in or part of the Rainbow PUSH coalition,\u201d Chandler said.<\/p>\n Dennis, a current member of PUSH, said the homegoing celebration was necessary.<\/p>\n \u201cBut also, I think with any celebration of life. … It\u2019s about what do you do now? If Jesse Jackson was about solidarity, how are we showing that in our everyday lives?\u201d Dennis, 33, asked. \u201cBecause it\u2019s one thing to show up for a day, but how do you show up for a lifetime?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Jackson \u2018belonged on that stage,\u2019 Obama said\n <\/p>\n Obama talks about watching Jackson\u2019s first presidential debate in 1984 in his New York apartment as a poor college kid. He said that first presidential campaign and Mayor Harold Washington\u2019s campaign for mayor inspired him and ultimately drew him to Chicago.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen that debate was over, I turned off that TV, and I thought the same thing that I know a lot of people thought, even if they didn\u2019t want to admit it. That in his idea, and his platform, in his analysis, in his intelligence, in his insight, Jesse hadn\u2019t just held his own. He had owned that stage,\u201d Obama said. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t an intruder, he wasn\u2019t a pretender. He belonged on that stage. And the message he sent, to a 22-year-old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that there wasn\u2019t any place, any room, where we didn\u2019t belong.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Former President Barack Obama compares Jackson to a prophet\n <\/p>\n By Neil Steinberg<\/a>, Elvia Malag\u00f3n<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s good to be home,\u201d former President Barack Obama said shortly after taking the stage. A sea of cell phones could be seen recording his words, as attendees gave him a standing ovation.<\/p>\n He then compared Jackson to the prophet Isaiah. <\/p>\n Jackson was \u201ca man who, when the poor and the dispossessed needed a champion and the country needed healing, stepped forward again and again and again and said, \u2018Send me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi: \u2018He saw in me something that I didn\u2019t see in myself\u2019\n <\/p>\n Illinois Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., was 11 years old when he heard Rev. Jackson\u2019s speech at the 1984 Democratic Party convention. He told the Sun-Times it had a profound impact on him. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a racial religious ethnic minority immigrant with 29 letters in my name. I\u2019m especially sensitive to anybody being otherized and he was the eternal champion for the poor, the immigrant, the person who\u2019s disinherited and disenfranchised,\u201d Krishnamoorthi said. <\/p>\n The current candidate for Sen. Dick Durbin\u2019s soon-to-be open seat added, \u201cAnd I felt that he saw in me something that I didn\u2019t see in myself when he said that.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Isiah Thomas calls Jackson \u2018Our Nelson Mandela\u2019\n <\/p>\n NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas drew people to their feet when he acknowledged who, he said, were the five presidents in attendance: Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Obama.<\/p>\n But it also was a bittersweet reference. Like Jackson\u2019s two historic but unsuccessful White House runs, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris never reached the promised land.<\/p>\n He recalled growing up in the 1960s in Chicago, listing fallen civil rights heroes such as Medgar Evers and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n He went on to call Rev. Jackson, \u201cOur Nelson Mandela.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen society was telling me I was a nobody, when society was telling me we don\u2019t even want to go to school with you, this man walked up to me and my mom … and then he did the unthinkable,\u201d he said. \u201cMama Jackson, your husband kneeled down, and he looked me in the eyes, and that man said, \u2018You are somebody.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Thomas wept recalling how Jackson comforted his family when his mother died.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we were at our lowest,\u201d he said, \u201che lifted us up on those broad shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Mayor Brandon Johnson says Jackson paved the way for President Clinton, Obama\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks at the House of Hope for Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s celebration of life.<\/p>\n Mayor Brandon Johnson, a West Side resident, jokingly chided the Jackson family about the lack of West Side representation on the program. <\/p>\n He then shared a story about a conversation he once had where the Rev. Jackson claimed he was a better quarterback than the Baltimore Ravens\u2019 Lamar Jackson. <\/p>\n \u201cYou know I played that position,\u201d he said Jackson told him. \u201cI was better because of my instincts.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnson added, \u201cIt was his instincts that understood that labor and faith were one and the same as Dr. King prophesied. It was his instincts to stand up against school closures and the shuttering of mental health clinics. It was his instincts that led protests down Michigan Avenue when a boy\u2019s life was taken by a police officer and the government tried to cover it up,\u201d Johnson said. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was his instincts to run in \u201884 and \u201888 but not in \u201892 to make way for somebody in the deep South and a brother on the South Side to become president of the United States,\u201d he said referring to former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jackie Jackson, the wife of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson sits near the front at his celebration of life service.<\/p>\n You will see him again,\u201d Mayor Johnson promised Jackson\u2019s widow Jackie. \u201cThat\u2019s not a promise from a politician, but the Word.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cReverend Mayor Brandon Johnson!\u201d Rev. James Meeks said after Johnson concluded his remarks, which were reminiscent of a Baptist sermon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n A rainbow coalition filling the House of Hope\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A diverse crowd fills the House of Hope for Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s celebration of life service.<\/p>\n The crowd reflects the rainbow coalition Jackson strived to build … while mostly Black, the audience is a sea of different shades of all colors among luminaries and everyday folks.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Gov. JB Pritzker talks about Jackson\u2019s commitment to justice\n <\/p>\n By Neil Steinberg<\/a>, Tina Sfondeles<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cLet justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream,\u201d Gov. JB Pritzker said, quoting the Bible. \u201cFor Rev. Jesse Jackson each day was a new opportunity to bring justice in a too-often unjust world. His ambition was to shape a world where justice was not an anomaly, but a constant.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJesse Jackson was an ambassador of hope for the oppressed, who met with kings and queens and presidents and dictators and clergy of all the great religions,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cBut here in Chicago, he was our neighbor. He was our friend. We were so proud. We are so proud.\u201d<\/p>\n Pritzker said that \u201ceven as his body started to fail him, the reverend\u2019s mind remained sharp.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cWhile we shared him with the world, Rev. Jackson belonged to Chicago, and Chicago belonged to him.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gov. JB Pritzker giving remarks at the homegoing for the Rev. Jesse Jackson at House of Hope in Chicago\u2019s Pullman neighborhood Friday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n \u2018I intend to die with my shoes on,\u2019 Rev. Jackson said before his death\n <\/p>\n Yusef Jackson recalled his father\u2019s legacy, saying his father spent his last months urging him to mobilize churches to feed those who temporarily lost food assistance during a historic government shutdown that froze benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.<\/p>\n \u201cI intend to die with my shoes on,\u201d he recalled his father saying.<\/p>\n Yusef Jackson ends his message to the crowd by recalling his father\u2019s famous words: \u201cKeep hope alive.\u201d<\/p>\n The crowd gave him a standing ovation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yusef Jackson giving remarks at House of Hope in Chicago\u2019s Pullman neighborhood in honor of his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Jackson was \u2018aligned to the moral center\u2019\n <\/p>\n \u201cHe was maladjusted to injustice,\u201d Yusef Jackson said Martin Luther King said about his father.<\/p>\n Yusef Jackson said his father was always aligned to the moral center. \u201cIt\u2019s not about the left wing or the right wing. It takes two wings to fly.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Rev. Jackson\u2019s son Yusef speaks\n <\/p>\n Jackson\u2019s son Yusef invoked Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, both slain at 39.<\/p>\n \u201cHe never thought he would live so long,\u201d said Yusef Jackson.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Rabbi Jacobs: \u2018Oh my God, you\u2019re Jesse Jackson! You are somebody!\u2019\n <\/p>\n By Neil Steinberg<\/a>, Alden Loury | WBEZ<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rabbi Steven Jacobs speaks at the House of Hope service for Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n Rabbi Steven Jacobs is connecting well with the audience, drawing laughter, applause and shouts of \u201cpreach\u201d from the crowd. <\/p>\n At one point he told a joke, that when Jackson arrived at the Pearly Gates, God said, \u201cOh my God, you\u2019re Jesse Jackson! You are somebody!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe wisest man of any of us,\u201d said Judge Greg Mathis\n <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s the wisest man any of us have ever known, no doubt,\u201d said Judge Greg Mathis, whose \u201cJudge Mathis\u201d courtroom television series was filmed at NBC Tower in downtown Chicago for its entire 24-year run.<\/p>\n Mathis is Jackson\u2019s godson, and was present in South Carolina earlier this week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n A day of inspirational speeches inspired by Rev. Jackson\u2019s own words\n <\/p>\n You will hear great inspirational speeches today at the Jackson funeral, especially from former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, whose words are always powerful.<\/p>\n But let\u2019s remember that Jackson is also the gold standard when it comes to speaking, from sermons to political speeches, not that there was always much of a difference.<\/p>\n I just re-read Jackson\u2019s Democratic Convention Speech he delivered on July 18, 1984, during his first White House run.<\/p>\n From the reverend himself … describing his flock, apt words in these chaotic times when the continuation of our democracy as we know it is on the line:<\/p>\n \u201cMy constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. They are restless and seek relief. They\u2019ve voted in record numbers. They have invested faith, hope and trust that they have in us. The Democratic Party must send them a signal that we care. I pledge my best to not let them down.<\/p>\n \u201cLeadership must heed the call of conscience, redemption, expansion, healing and unity, for they are the key to achieving our mission. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders can change things.\u201d<\/p>\n And Jackson\u2019s message to young America is worth repeating today: \u201cExercise the right to dream. You must face reality, that which is. But then dream of a reality that ought to be, that must be. Live beyond the pain of reality with the dream of a bright tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n An old friend of Jesse Jackson watches the homegoing from Valois Restaurant in Hyde Park\n <\/p>\n Scrambled eggs, grits and sausage patties were Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s regular order at Hyde Park\u2019s Valois Restaurant. He\u2019d sit at the fifth table on the right, without fail. Jackson was a loyal customer, sometimes coming in twice a day, for over 40 years.<\/p>\n Gianni Colamussi, owner of the popular cafeteria-style restaurant, became friends with Jackson and his family over the years. So streaming Friday\u2019s services on the television at Valois felt like a good way to honor Jackson\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gianni Colamussi, owner of Valois Restaurant in Hyde Park.<\/p>\n Anthony Vazquez\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s been a real big pinnacle of this area and of the restaurant,\u201d he said. \u201cHis bodyguard would sit at the table behind him, and if it was just them two, he would eat in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n During his break, Colamussi parked himself at the closest table to the TV. The restaurant was crowded with regulars at 11:30 a.m., but only he and a visiting friend, John Pitsadiotis, were fixated on the services.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Gospel singer: \u2018One more praise! One more praise!\u2019\n <\/p>\n The crowd stood and cheered as Hezekiah Walker sang one of his gospel classics. \u201cEvery praise is to our God. Every word of worship is to our God,\u201d he sang. <\/p>\n Urging the crowd on, Walker contined: \u201cOne more praise! One more praise!\u201d<\/p>\n After Walker finished, Rev. James T. Meeks returned to the podium and jokingly warned the crowd about keeping the service to three hours. <\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s how services go too long. \u2018One more praise. One more praise,\u2019\u201d Meeks said as the crowd erupted in laughter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Rev. Otis Moss III brought the crowd to its feet\n <\/p>\n Rev. Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, one of the city\u2019s largest Black congregations, brings many in the crowd to its feet with his prayer for Jackson delivered in the thunderous tone for which he has become known.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cRev. Jesse Louis Jackson is now an ancestor,\u201d said Rev. Otis Moss III\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe honor the rhetorical genius of a man whose oral dexterity reshaped notions of what is possible,\u201d said Rev. Otis Moss III, senior pastor of Trinity United Church in Christ in Chicago. \u201cMay we honor him by speaking truth to power. … Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson is now an ancestor, may we be unfair to tap into his ancestral intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Speaker Rabbi Brous is a mentor to Jackson\u2019s daughter Ashley\n <\/p>\n Rabbi Sharon Brous said, \u201cOur nation can still write a redemption story\u201d<\/p>\n Brous is the founder of IKAR synagogue in Los Angeles. She is a prominent rabbi who, on the second day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, delivered the invocation. She has also spoken at events with ex-Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n A connection to Jackson is through his daughter, Ashley. Ashley is the daughter born to Jackson and Karin Stanford. Brous told the Sun-Times that she is a \u201cmentor and close friend\u201d to Ashley, who \u201cis a close associate of IKAR and a beloved member of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n Brous said she and Jackson \u201cconnected meaningfully over the past couple of years, based on their shared commitment to strengthening multifaith partnerships in the spirit of building a more just and loving world.\u201d Jackson attended shabbat services at IKAR in November, 2024.<\/p>\n Said Brous, in their last meeting, Jackson asked her if he could call Brous \u201chis rabbi.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Three former presidents enter the hall\n <\/p>\n As former presidents Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama walk into House of Hope, the crowd cheers loudest for Chicago\u2019s own, Barack Obama.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bill Clinton (center), Barack Obama and Joe Biden (far right), the three presidents who arrived at House of Hope in Chicago\u2019s Pullman neighborhood for the homegoing for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWe must never give up on righting the wrongs of the past,\u201d said Rabbi Sharon Brous\n <\/p>\n Rabbi Sharon Brous of Los Angeles called Jackson \u201cthe man who reminded America that we must never give up on righting the wrongs of the past\u201d and prayed we follow the example of \u201cthis moral and spiritual giant.\u201d \u201cForgiveness is always possible,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen we lead with love we plant the seeds for a world that will be redeemed with love.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Amid gospel music, celebrities rub shoulders with prominent politicians\n <\/p>\n By Elvia Malag\u00f3n<\/a>, Tina Sfondeles<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Filmmaker Tyler Perry at the House of Hope service for Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n Just after 11 a.m., the crowd inside House of Hope was joyous with attendees standing and singing along to a choir. <\/p>\n Celebrities, including Tyler Perry and Jennifer Hudson, were among those roaming the floor and rubbing shoulders with prominent Democratic politicians, including Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Texas Rep. James Talarico, a candidate for U.S. Senate at Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s House of Hope service.<\/p>\n California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a presumptive 2028 presidential candidate, is also in attendance at Jackson\u2019s homegoing service. Newsom on Wednesday ordered flags at the state capitol and all state buildings in California to be flown at half-staff in honor of Jackson.<\/p>\n \u201cRev. Jackson paved the righteous path that we now must walk to fulfill his vision of a better world, and his lifetime of lessons and wisdom leaves us well-prepared to do so,\u201d Newsom said in a statement.<\/p>\n Gov. JB Pritzker, also a potential 2028 presidential candidate, is speaking at Jackson\u2019s service. Both have been at the forefront of combating Trump administration policies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jennifer Hudson at the House of Hope celebration of life for Rev. Jesse Jackson<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Members of the Divine Nine out in full force\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dorothy Straughter, of Chicago\u2019s Beverly neighborhood, had a pink and green scarf draped over her shoulders at the House of Hope service for Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n Candace Dane Chambers\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n Dorothy Straughter, of Chicago\u2019s Beverly neighborhood, had a pink-and-green scarf draped over her shoulders.<\/p>\n She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the country\u2019s first sorority established for Black women, and estimated that hundreds of her sorority sisters would join Friday\u2019s celebration for the Rev. Jesse Jackson who was a member of Omega Psi Phi, a historically Black fraternity.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a sisterhood, and then there\u2019s the brotherhood, and together, of course, we are all one,\u201d Straughter said. \u201cWe believe in service to all mankind, and we believe if someone is sent to heaven then it\u2019s our duty and responsibility to represent and be part of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n Other members of the Divine Nine were among those in attendance, wearing bags and blazers decorated with their Greek letters.<\/p>\n Straughter said her sorority will keep Rev. Jackson\u2019s legacy alive through their community service efforts.<\/p>\n \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of things that we have today, rights that we have today that we wouldn\u2019t have if it weren\u2019t for him formulating the legacy that we are all living from now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Omega Psi Phi member: \u2018Rev. Jackson was a very special fallen brother\u2019\n <\/p>\n Thomas Finch stood outside Gate 4 proudly wearing his Omega Psi Phi jacket and displaying his large, billboard-sized video screen that will broadcast the services going on inside for those still waiting to enter. <\/p>\n Finch said more than 300 of his fraternity brothers attended a special memorial service the fraternity held Thursday night for Jackson, a member of the Omegas since 1960. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a significant ritual that we have for fallen brothers, and Rev. Jackson was a very special fallen brother. It was very moving. It was really a celebration. We love him, and his legacy will live on.\u201d<\/p>\n Finch said Jackson stayed close to the fraternity throughout his career. Jackson was initiated at the University of Illinois in 1960. Just two years later, he was elected second vice grand basileus, the fraternity\u2019s highest position for undergrad members, Finch said. <\/p>\n \u201cSo his abilities were recognized very early, but he still loved the brothers,\u201d Finch said. \u201cEvery time we\u2019d see him, no matter the occasion, he throw up the hooks. And he\u2019d give you a hug.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to pack this place and send him off very well,\u201d Finch said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Poster designer James Hickman hasn\u2019t gotten much sleep\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Atlanta resident James Hickman holding one of the posters he designed outside House of Hope.<\/p>\n Candace Dane Chambers\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n The Atlanta resident drove a total of about 34 hours to and from South Carolina for Rev. Jackson\u2019s funeral services. And by Friday morning, he was standing outside of House of Hope on the Far South Side selling calendars and a commemorative poster outlining the history of Rev. Jackson\u2019s life.<\/p>\n He designs the posters himself and sells them for $10 each. For Hickman, the history each poster tells is so important that he\u2019s willing to give them away if someone can\u2019t pay.<\/p>\n \u201cI couldn\u2019t go to my local stores and big chains and all that and get our type of information,\u201d Hickman said. \u201cSo it\u2019s our job to tell our own stories.\u201d<\/p>\n Rev. Jackson always let Hickman sell his posters at Rainbow PUSH Operation\u2019s building, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe keep selling, pushing history, keeping hope alive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He has a calendar filled with photos and facts ready to commemorate when the Obama Presidential Center opens.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Sen. Durbin: \u2018He had me on speed dial\u2019\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin at the House of Hope service for Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n \u201cJust out of law school, 1969,\u201d reflected retiring Sen. Dick Durbin, of how he met Jackson. <\/p>\n \u201cHe came down to East St. Louis in a dashiki, with a big afro. It was the 1960s. It was the start of a friendship. He had me on speed dial.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Rep. Robin Kelly, who took over Jesse Jackson Jr\u2019s House seat, is here\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly hugs Father Michael Pfleger at the House of Hope service for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n The celebration of life for Rev. Jackson marks the coming together of hundreds of different political story lines where his giant impact played a role. That is certainly the case when it comes to Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., who is vacating her seat to make a Democratic primary run this election cycle for the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n Kelly won that South Side 2nd District seat after ex-Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. stepped down, amid mental health struggles and federal investigations that ultimately led to a guilty plea and prison time for looting his campaign funds. That seat then provided Kelly with the platform to make her Senate bid after Sen. Dick Durbin announced he was retiring.<\/p>\n Things come full circle \u2014 Jesse Jr. is now running for Kelly\u2019s seat in a crowded Democratic primary field.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts, a Republican, expected to speak later\n <\/p>\n One name that jumps out among the speakers is Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts. If you wonder about the relationship, well, so did we. \u201cThe relationship is really rooted around baseball,\u201d said Dennis Culloton, Ricketts\u2019 spokesperson. <\/p>\n \u201cRev. Jackson is a baseball fan. He really loved coming to Wrigley Field. He loved coming with his family, and Tom would spend some time with him when he came to the games.<\/p>\n \u201cTom speculates that [Jackson] also felt connected to Wrigley Field because it is the last ball park still standing where Jackie Robinson played.\u201d Robinson was the first African American to play in the MLB in this era when he started for the Dodgers in 1947.<\/p>\n Ricketts comes from a famous Republican family, with the exception being sister Laura, who is a staunch Democrat. But at games, said Culloton, the talk was about baseball \u2014 not politics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n \u2018I fell in love with him,\u2019 says Mr. T\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Actor and former professional wrestler Mr. T at the House of Hope service for Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n The actor and former professional wrestler, who grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes, said Jackson spoke at Dunbar High School when he was a student there.<\/p>\n \u201cI fell in love with him,\u201d said Mr. T.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n \u2018I grew up with him,\u2019 says former Mayor Richard M. Daley\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bill, Richard and John Daley at the House of Hope for Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s homegoing service. <\/p>\n Three of the city\u2019s powerful Daley clan, Bill, Richard and John Daley, were all in attendance at the House of Hope on Friday to pay their respects to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n \u201cI grew up with him,\u201d said former mayor Richard M. Daley, who was also seen talking with Rev. Al Sharpton.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rev. Al Sharpton talking with former mayor Richard Daley at the House of Hope service for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Gwen Haywood was seated by 9 a.m. as attendees started to fill House of Hope.\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gwen Haywood was seated by 9 a.m. as attendees started to fill House of Hope.<\/p>\n Candace Dane Owens\/Sun-Times<\/p>\n Haywood said younger people need to know about Rev. Jackson\u2019s life to continue his legacy of unity.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to continue the hope,\u201d she said. \u201cWe need to continue the whole legacy, mission.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Thousands, young and old, paid their respects to Jackson at Rainbow PUSH headquarters last week\n <\/p>\n Before today\u2019s celebration, Rev. Jackson lay in repose for two days at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition\u2019s headquarters in Kenwood last week. The services drew thousands of people, from across generations, to pay their respects to the civil rights leader.<\/p>\n \u201cHe raised a generation of us,\u201d the Rev. Al Sharpton told the press last Thursday. \u201cAnd he never gave up, even when he was sick.\u201d<\/p>\n Elders recalled Jackson motivating them to pursue their education and to lead by example as they achieved success.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mourners chant \u201cI am!\u201d while waiting in line to enter the Rainbow PUSH Coalition to pay their respects to Rev. Jesse Jackson as he lies in repose at his South Side nonprofit, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.<\/p>\n \u201cHe said \u2018once you get there, don\u2019t forget to look back and bring somebody with you,\u2019\u201d said Jennifer Edwards. \u201cAnd that was always our motto, to help somebody along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n And young people, like Nadiyah Spikener, said Jackson\u2019s death could lead to an awakening as more young people learn that history.<\/p>\n \u201cThis may be a moment to realize that maybe we need to do more for ourselves, and do more for our community like he has, and just start somewhere,\u201d Spikener said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n A piece of Jackson\u2019s past presidential campaign for sale\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volunteers from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition are selling original 1984 presidential campaign pins for $5. Volunteers say they still have a couple hundred pins that the Jackson family had kept in storage.<\/p>\n Volunteers from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition are selling original 1984 presidential campaign pins for $5. Volunteers say they still have a couple hundred pins that the Jackson family had kept in storage.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s casket arrives at House of Hope\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s casket arrives at House of Hope.<\/p>\n Elvia Malag\u00f3n\/Chicago Sun-Times<\/p>\n Wearing white gloves, seven men somberly carried in the casket. Jesse Jackson Jr., wearing a pin depicting his father, watched quietly. Family members walked behind the casket, some women dabbing their eyes with tissues.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s casket at the House of Hope Baptist church.<\/p>\n Neil Steinberg\/Chicago Sun-Times<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Long lines hours before the homegoing ceremony\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hundreds of people gather outside the House of Hope hours before the service for Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n Ashlee Rezin\/Chicago Sun-Times<\/p>\n Hundreds of people waited in the gray chill, the line snaking around the large beige House of Hope center, hours before the doors opened Friday.<\/p>\n A slow crawl of traffic streamed for blocks from the House of Hope down Corliss Ave., snaking onto to 111th Street and the nearby off-ramp on the Bishop Ford expressway. It took some motorists 30 minutes to reach the venue only to find on-site parking lots were full. Some were redirected to the parking lot of a nearby business.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m here to show respect and homage to my leader, Jesse Louis Jackson\u201d said James Bush III, who worked for Operation Push, and flew in from Miami. \u201cA man who has given his life, not only working for Black people, but for the human race.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n James Bush III flew in from Miami to attend the homegoing service for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n Neil Steinberg\/Chicago Sun-Times<\/p>\n Benita White Arnold and about 25 other members of East Chicago\u2019s NAACP 3046-B chapter in Indiana were also among those awaiting to enter.<\/p>\n White Arnold said the celebration of life is a moment in history. That\u2019s why she made sure her 15-year-old grandson joined her.<\/p>\n \u201cWe got to remember how we got here and fight like hell to move this needle forward,\u201d she said. \u201cWe owe this to him.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n Details on Friday\u2019s homegoing service\n <\/p>\n The House of Hope arena has about 10,000 seats. Doors open to the public at 9 a.m. Services begin at 11 a.m. The Rev. Charles Jenkins and the Rev. James T. Meeks will be the officiants.<\/p>\n A smaller service at Rainbow PUSH headquarters is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday. Performers will include Stevie Wonder. After the Saturday service there will be a procession to Oak Woods Cemetery.<\/p>\n Details on Friday\u2019s homegoing service<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n The Rev. Jesse Jackson comes home to South Carolina, the place that molded the man Chicago knew\n <\/p>\n For most of his 84 years, Rev. Jesse Jackson powered through so many high places, organizing boycotts, freeing hostages and launching two presidential bids, that it begs remembering he wasn\u2019t born a giant. And despite living most of his life in Chicago, that is not where his story began.<\/p>\n Before he landed in Chicago in his 20s to establish his own power, starting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., activism was something Jackson had to learn from those around him, from mentors and teachers who nurtured and bolstered him and his classmates from Sterling High School, once an institution for Black Greenville.<\/p>\n The Rev. 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