Avondale

Several of the burglaries occurred within blocks of each other, according to an alert from Chicago police.
When the drivers showed up to drop off food, two males pulled out a weapon, announced a robbery and stole the food and cash, police said.
Someone broke into the buildings and took property three times in February, CPD said.
Mell has become a more progressive-leaning voice in the City Council and given more attention to the issue of affordable housing.
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa has become a knowledgeable alderman who listens to constituents and gives them a say in the ward’s zoning and spending decisions.
Reboyras has the necessary policy experience. A challenger, Jessica Gutierrez, lacks policy chops and ideas.
In two incidents, a dark-colored tow truck was caught on surveillance video taking a vehicle from a parking lot.
The man told investigators he was shot in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Danny Borgert’s first fish of the year, a mature Chinook salmon, came as a really big surprise on the Chicago lakefront.
The Hyundai crashed into a CTA bus, a parked car and the side of a home near Belmont and Monticello, state police and Chicago police said.
One man was shot twice in his back and taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition.
The burglaries occurred on Dec. 11 and between Dec. 7 and Dec. 3.
Teresa Moreno, who has Alzheimer’s, was last seen Sunday near the area of West Belmont Avenue and North Kimball Avenue.
A west suburban Lombard man has been charged with possession of a stolen vehicle after being taken into custody Wednesday night in Avondale.
In all but nine of Chicago’s 77 community areas, the estimated share of those holding a bachelor’s degree or higher went up between 2010 and 2017.
Two people were arrested and charges were pending, police said Wednesday night.
The man was found laying on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his head, police said.
The robberies occurred in the Albany Park, Belmont Gardens, Avondale, Bucktown, Lincoln Park and Montclare neighborhoods.
In each case, someone break into the apartment through the front door or window and stole property, police said.
Kmart’s Avondale store — its last location within Chicago’s city limits — is among 40 new store closings by parent Sears Holdings.
The stolen vehicles — four of five of which were Dodge Caravans — were parked on the street when they were taken in Northwest Side neighborhoods.
The sole gun homicide documented that day was a drive-by attack that killed one man and wounded another at night in the Little Village neighborhood.
Officers found the wounded 25-year-old in a convenience store parking lot in the 3600 block of West Belmont Avenue.
They were traveling north in a GMC Yukon in the 3500 block of South Kedzie Avenue when someone in a black Jeep started shooting at them, police said.
The Northwest Side spot would become Chicago’s third Portillo’s restaurant. The other two are in River North and the South Loop.
Teachers at 15 Acero schools and four Chicago International Charter Schools will vote next week on a strike that could be the first of its kind.
The controversial former Avondale priest says he’s still in hiding to avoid being committed to a mental institution by Cardinal Blase Cupich.
Speaking from an “undisclosed location,” the Rev. Paul Kalchik said church leaders tried to send him to a mental institution in Maryland.