Chatham

Crime

Security guard shot at Red Line station in Chatham

He suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and was hospitalized in critical condition.

By Sun-Times Wire

Members of the Hell Cats youth football team practice at West chatham Park, Friday, Oct., 6, 2023

Chicago

Season in limbo for South Side youth football organization after shooting on sidelines

Chicago police officials wouldn’t say if investigators believe the shooting was related to the game. Team staff said they found out Wednesday their Chicago Park District field access had been revoked.

By Violet Miller

A man was fatally shot August 1, 2021, in South Shore.

Crime

Man fatally shot in Chatham

The man was in the backyard of a home in the 8000 block of South Ingleside Avenue when he was shot in the leg, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Los robos ocurrieron entre las 7:20 y las 8:20 a.m. el jueves, según la policía. | Archivos Sun-Times

Crime

1 dead, 1 wounded in Chatham shooting

Just after 9 p.m Thursday, two men were shot in the first block of West 79th Street, police said. One man died, another man is in fair condition. Two suspects fled.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

Man dies after he’s shot inside car with 8-year-old boy, then crashes while fleeing

The 8-year-old was not injured, but was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital as a precaution.

By Sun-Times Wire

Twelve people were shot, one fatally, April 27, 2022 in Chicago.

Crime

14-year-old girl shot, wounded in Chatham

The girl was sitting inside a home about 7:30 p.m. when she suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. It wasn’t clear if the shot came from outside the home, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

A 36-year-old man was killed in a South Shore shooting Saturday afternoon, police said.

Crime

Man shot, struck by SUV in Chatham dies

A man was standing in a parking lot Wednesday afternoon when several people exited an SUV and began shooting, then hit the man with their vehicle as they fled.

By Sun-Times Wire

Liz Wawrzyniak Chicago State University Argonne

News

Scientists test South Side air, rain to find ways to tackle climate-related problems

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory say they want to help understand perennial flooding as well as climate-related bad air quality and extreme heat.

By Brett Chase

Five people were wounded in shootings Aug. 25, 2022, across Chicago.

Crime

Man killed in car-to-car shooting in Chatham

The 25-year-old was in a vehicle in the 8800 block of South Wabash Avenue when someone in another car fired shots. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

By Sun-Times Wire

City Hall

Johnson launches summer jobs program

The program will have 24,000 jobs and internships for young people ages of 16 to 24. And while that’s 2,000 more than last year, it is 8,000 fewer than the One Summer Chicago program provided in 2019.

By Fran Spielman

Crime

Boy, 16, shot in foot in Chatham

The boy was in the parking lot of a gas station when someone fired shots, Chicago police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

Man fatally shot on front porch in Chatham

Officers responding to a person shot report found the man lying on a porch with multiple gunshot wounds.

By Sun-Times Wire

Chicago Police Interim Supt. Terry Hillard in a 2011 photo.

Crime

Ex-CPD boss scares off would-be robbers targeting daughter outside Chatham home

The attempted robbery on Memorial Day happened a year after former Chicago Police Supt. Terry Hillard was shot with a paintball gun in his front yard.

By Tom Schuba

Crime

Woman charged in death of girl, 4, from child abuse injuries

Asha Green, 26, is accused of abusing Cashawnna Love in June 2022, causing her death.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

Man fatally shot in Chatham

The 30-year-old man was in the 8000 block of South Champlain Avenue when he was shot, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

Chicago weekend gun violence: 4 killed, 22 wounded

A 24-year-old Chicago police officer was among the four killed, and separate attacks about an hour apart on the Lower West Side wounded three.

By Sun-Times Wire

The Walmart Supercenter at 83rd Street and Stewart Avenue closed April 16.

Chicago Enterprise

As Walmart pulls back, businesses and neighborhoods need to talk

The retailer’s closures of four Chicago stores follow the retreat of others from the city’s South and West sides and underscores how companies and communities often don’t get each other.

By David Roeder

News

As Walmart pulls out, community group steps in to fill void on South Side

Nonprofit My Block, My Hood, My City gives away $33,000 in food in parking lot of Chatham Walmart Supercenter Sunday, the last day of store’s operation.

By Violet Miller

Three people were killed in separate crashes across the Chicago area during a winter storm early Saturday.

Crime

Pedestrian dies after hit by car in Chatham

A man, 59, was killed. The 27-year-old driver of the car was cited for failure to provide a driver’s license and for not having valid insurance.

By Sun-Times Wire

Baltazar Enriquez from the Little Village Community Council speaking out Friday against the closing of a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Little Village.

Consumer Affairs

Protesters blast Walmart for closing store in Little Village: ‘We need this Walmart’

It’s one of four Walmart stores in Chicago being closed for good Sunday.

By Kaitlin Washburn

The Walmart Supercenter, the Walmart Health center and the Walmart Academy at 8431 S. Stewart Ave. in Chatham is one of four Chicago Walmart locations being closed.

Business

Walmart fought hard to open the stores it’s closing Sunday on the South Side, West Side

Four Walmart locations are set to close, a shock to those who remember the retailer clawing its way to do business in the city.

By Natalie Moore | WBEZ and Clare Lane | WBEZ

The Chatham Supercenter, with the Walmart Health center and the Walmart Academy, located at 8431 S. Stewart Ave., is set to close down Sunday along with three other Chicago Walmarts.

Chicago

South Siders slam Walmart over plan to close stores, threaten protests at other Walmarts

Community leaders at the Chatham Supercenter question the abrupt announcement of four Walmart closures this weekend: “If they’re going to walk out on us, we’re going to walk out on them.”

By Michael Loria

The Chatham Supercenter, Walmart Health center, and Walmart Academy, at 8431 S. Stewart Ave., is one of four Walmart locations that’ll be closing down by Sunday.

Chicago

Walmart plan to shut 4 stores by Sunday leaves customers perplexed: ‘You came in and filled a void — now you’re taking it away’

The Walmart Supercenter in Chatham is one of four stores in Chicago — along with supermarkets in Kenwood, Little Village and Lake View — that the company announced Tuesday will close. The supermarket chain called the sites “unprofitable.”

By Michael Loria and Mariah Rush

Community organizer Ronnie Mosley votes last week at Wendell Green Elementary School in the 21st Ward.

Elections

City Council to get new youngest member with Mosley’s win in South Side’s 21st Ward

The victory of community organizer Ronnie Mosley, 31, was secured on Monday with the concession of retired firefighter Cornell Dantzler, who concluded the ballots that could still arrive in the mail would not be enough to erase Mosley’s lead.

By Tina Sfondeles

Crime

Man fatally shot in Chatham

He was on the sidewalk in the 7900 block of South Drexel Avenue when he was shot multiple times, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

A man was shot to death Mar. 20, 2022, in Roseland.

Crime

Boy, 14, shot in Chatham

The boy, age 14, was in the 8000 block of South Drexel Avenue when he was shot in chest, Chicago police said. He’s hospitalized in serious condition.

By Mary Norkol

Richard Wooten and William Hall are running for a 6th Ward City Council post while Cornell Dantzler and Ronnie Mosley are facing off in the 21st Ward.

Elections

6th, 21st Ward candidates discuss future of South Side ahead of runoff: Time to ‘resurrect dreams of residents’

Four community leaders vie for City Council seats left open by the departures of longtime alderpersons Sawyer and Brookins.

By Mariah Rush

Chicago

5 South Side groups awarded $1 million in grants will offer free services to ‘transform health care’

Groups like Dion’s Chicago Dream and Trek World USA have been given grants from South Side Community Health Organization.

By Mariah Rush

Crime

State trooper, 4 others injured in crash involving suspected stolen car in Chatham

Three children, one believed to be 10 years old, and two adults, including an Illinois State Police trooper, were hospitalized in good condition, fire officials said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Ruth Poole-Rivera, 49, a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipient, stands in her kitchen in the Chatham neighborhood, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Poole-Rivera, who has diabetes and other health problems, said she and her family made $514 of SNAP assistance meet their needs, but she is worried now that her allowance is reduced to $281 because she will no longer receive additional funds from SNAP’s emergency allotments that started in April 2020. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Coronavirus

As SNAP recipients see reduction in funds, Chicago residents make adjustments: ‘I make do’

Starting this month, recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will see a decrease in their benefits after a coronavirus pandemic-era funding boost ended.

By Elvia Malagón