  It has been recently pointed out that black holes of constant curvature with
a "chronological singularity" can be constructed in any spacetime dimension.
These black holes share many common properties with the 2+1 black hole. In this
contribution we give a brief summary of these new black holes and consider them
as solutions of a Chern-Simons gravity theory. We also provide a brief
introduction to some aspects of higher dimensional Chern-Simons theories.
