The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the Chicago-based Baptist minister, political figure and two-time presidential candidate whose soaring oratory and knack for capturing media attention made him a central figure in the Civil Rights Movement and national politics for more than six decades, died Tuesday. He was 84.
Political leaders across Illinois mourned Rev. Jesse Jackson's death and nodded to the decades-long movement he championed after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his mentor.
