Tri-Taylor

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Chicago

2 police officers hurt in Near West Side crash

Chicago police said the driver went through a light in the 500 block of South Oakley Boulevard, hitting a squad car with two police officers inside. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Conte Di Savoia, 1438 W. Taylor St. had its patio open for guests to enjoy their lunch at on Wednesday, June 3.

News

Taylor Street Little Italy festival canceled again; organizer vows to return in 2022

Ron Onesti, president of Onesti Entertainment, said it would be irresponsible of him to put on the festival, given that so many businesses are already stretched thin for staff.

By Manny Ramos

A fence with the U.S. and Italian flags cover the area where a Christopher Columbus statue once stood at Arrigo Park in Little Italy on Oct. 8, 2020.

Chicago

Lawsuit against Chicago Park District seeks Columbus statue’s return to Arrigo Park

The lawsuit filed by the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans alleges the Chicago Park District breached a nearly 50-year-old contract when it removed the statue last year.

By Manny Ramos

News

Window with Black Lives Matter sign shot with BB gun — for 2nd time

Mary Kathryn Cook believes the two incidents in her Near West Side neighborhood are linked after tensions arose over a Columbus statue and the presidential election.

By Manny Ramos

This mural, by Uptown artist Rodney “Hotrod” Duran, is one of 15 murals painted on garage doors in a single block on the Near West Side. Duran says he’s “really into astronomy and space and time” and was trying to get across that, if everyone looked toward Jupiter’s moon Callisto, we could all be “feeling the same beauty.”

Near West Side alley was transformed into a drive-thru gallery with 15 new murals

By Sun-Times staff

A girl was hurt in a shooting June 4, 2022, in Calumet Heights.

Crime

Teen boy wounded in Tri-Taylor shooting

Someone in a dark-colored vehicle fired shots at the 17-year-old about 5:45 p.m. as he stood outside in the 500 block of South Oakley Boulevard, Chicago police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Workers from the city’s Department of Streets and Sanitation clear out a homeless encampment near South Desplaines Street and West Roosevelt Road in February 2020.

News

City removes garbage, unused tents from homeless encampment near expressway

Those still living in the camp were generally happy with the operation; days earlier, city workers canvassed the tent city, next to the Dan Ryan Expressway at Roosevelt Road, and spray-painted the unoccupied tents with an “X.”

By Manny Ramos

A man is charged with DUI in a crash with a CTA bus in Tri-Taylor.

Crime

Man charged with DUI in crash with CTA bus that injured 7 in Tri-Taylor

Arturo Negrete was also cited for failure to yield the right of way and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

7 injured after possible drunk driver crashes into CTA bus in Tri-Taylor

About 11:30 p.m., a black BMW X3 was driving south at a high rate of speed on Damen Avenue when it crashed into the back of a northbound CTA bus that was turning left onto Taylor Street, Chicago police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

J. Tuke Nollman Field, a new rugby facility at Chicago Hope Academy, opened Saturday.

Columnists

Rugby ‘makes football look for little babies’

The Chicago Lions, whose players, women and men, range from kindergarteners to adults, open new field at Hope Academy on the West Side.

By Neil Steinberg

Three adults and three juveniles were charged in a shooting and stabbing in West Chicago Nov. 4, 2019.

News

Man charged with leaving the scene of a vehicle crash that left 3 dead

Deanton Thompson, 24, faces seven counts of felony charges in connection with a vehicle crash that left three dead.

By Sun-Times Wire

Businesses were burglarized in April 2020, in Lawndale and the Near West Side.

News

Charges pending after 3 killed in Near West Side crash

The two-vehicle crash happened abut 6 p.m. Sunday at the Intersection of Harrison and Oakley, according to Chicago Fire Media Affairs.

By Jermaine Nolen

News

Woman, 65, found after reported missing from Near West Side

Alexandria Kim, 65, was last seen April 5 in the 2100 block of West Harrison Street, Chicago police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

News

Man shot while riding in car in Near West Side

The man was struck in the left arm and face by bullets. He took himself to Stroger Hospital where his condition was stabilized.

By Alison Martin

Editorials

ENDORSEMENT: Patrick Daley Thompson for 11th Ward alderman

He has been a more than credible alderman in his first four years.

By CST Editorial Board

Crime

Shooting death of off-duty CPD officer being investigated as suicide: police

Chicago police now say that the shooting death of an off duty female police officer on the Near West Side is being investigated as a suicide.

By Matthew Hendrickson

Crime

Woman wounded in crossfire in Tri-Taylor drive-by shooting

The woman, who was not the intended target, was shot in the left leg and took herself to a hospital.

By Sun-Times Wire

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News

At Providence St. Mel, we learned to believe against the odds

In your arms, we found freedom to be as black as we wanted to be — free from isolation and racial animosity.

By John W. Fountain

News

Group beating victims, stealing property: police

In three robberies, two to three males battered a victim and stole their property.

By Taylor Hartz

News

Group beating victims, stealing property: police

In three robberies, two to three males battered a victim and stole their property.

By Taylor Hartz