Bronzeville
Fresh Move employees say they’ve had to double their orders from urban farms to keep up with community needs amid high grocery prices and a lack of fresh food options on the city’s South and West sides.
At a ribbon-cutting for a EV charging station in Bronzeville, ComEd officials announced a new proposed plan to lower air pollution in the state and invest in clean energy sources.
The long-vacant, two-story former Lake Meadows professional building at 31st Street and Rhodes Avenue — a dormant but architecturally significant modernist South Side office building — is getting a major fix-up.
The privately operated, publicly funded school has used cash advances and “predatory loans” for funding, city school officials say. Urban Prep leaders say its financial issues are resolved.
It is expected to serve more than 50,000 patients in Bronzeville and nearby communities every year. About 1,000 construction and 100 health care jobs will be created by the development.
For the past 13 years, Urban Prep Academies, with campuses downtown, in Bronzeville and in Englewood — has boasted that 100% of its graduating seniors are accepted to four-year colleges.
The male was inside a home in the 4700 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, when he was shot in the chest after getting into a fight with another male.
Since his release from federal prison three years ago, South Side native Aaron Smith has dedicated his time to sharing stories of convicts-turned-entrepreneurs in an effort to change the narrative around formerly incarcerated people.
The boy was shot while riding in a car in the 4900 block of South Prairie Avenue, police said.
Apostolic Faith Church, 3823 S. Indiana Ave., has done a coat drive for 30 years.
Youth Connection Leadership Academy is looking for a new home, but the teachers union is worried the school might close instead, leaving students in the lurch. “This is their second home, and for some of them, it’s their first home,” a staff member said.
A 71-year-old man was found in his bedroom, where the fire began, in cardiac arrest, officials said.
On a cold November night in Chicago, B.B. King cut ‘Live at the Regal,’ one of blues’ classic albums
The author of a new book on the guitar great recalls a set that thrilled the Bronzeville crowd — and disappointed the band.
The South Side Connectivity Collaborative will place 11 Comcast “Lift Zones” around the South Side to provide “high capacity” internet access in four neighborhoods within the next two months.
Ebony Blue’s mobile coffee bar Southside Grinds will have a grand opening ceremony Saturday at the Bronzeville enterprise hub.
The victim, 31, was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.
When parts of the country are trying to whitewash history, a few Chicagoans band together to remember ours.
In 2008, the City Council borrowed $85 million to buy the shuttered hospital, hoping to put an Olympic athletes village there for the 2016 Games. But Chicago lost its bid for those Games, and the site has remained vacant.
A plan years in the making to build a $4 billion multi-use development at the site of the former Michael Reese Hospital campus on the South Side is one step closer to becoming a reality.
The City Council’s Finance Committee agreed to earmark $60 million to build city streets, a new park and other infrastructure needed to pave the way for the “Bronzeville Lakefront” project.
When teens from marginalized communities have no place to go, where do you think they are going to end up?
Tionda and Diamond Bradley, who went missing July 6, 2001, when they were 10 and 3.
The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells-Barnett Monument was unveiled Wednesday.
Daniel Armani called 911 because his mother was having an epileptic seizure, and despite his age, calmly relayed critical information while comforting his mother.
In Englewood, the Inner-City Muslim Action Network is holding an event on Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. where community leaders will talk about their vision for the corner on 63rd Street and Racine Avenue.
Williams founded the Bronzeville Historical Society. She is being honored with the MOSAIC Award from the Chicago Cultural Alliance in the category of Outstanding Community Leader.
The Chicago Teachers Union said administration at the all-boys charter school has agreed to salary increases among other things.
Thirty-four teachers at the charter organization’s three campuses are on strike, union officials said.