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.
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.
Glenn Harris Jr. was found on the ground about 9:50 p.m. in the 8100 block of South Drexel Avenue, police said.
Former home of civil rights and gospel icons needs new investment, crowded field to replace mayoral candidate Ald. Roderick Sawyer says.
The man, whose age is unknown, had gotten into an argument with someone when the other person drew a weapon and fired at him, police said.
He was shot in the 8400 block of South Wabash Avenue, police said.
Third World Press Foundation, the renowned Black publishing company on Chicago’s South Side, experienced a flood in December that caused $200,000 in damage.
Officers responding Wednesday to a call of a person shot in the 900 block of East 81st Street found a 42-year-old man with a gunshot wound in his back.
It’s a chance for these shops “to have exposure outside their neighborhoods,” said Tamieka Hardy of the Greater Chatham Initiative. The group is one of a few vendors popping up at the Magnificent Mile building until mid-March.
The boy was in the 7900 block of South Lafayette Avenue when he was shot, police said.
The driver of the white Dodge Durango and its passengers fled and left the SUV behind Monday night, police said.
A 55-year-old man was stabbed in the chest in the 300 block of West 87th Street, police said.
South Side residents are asking Chatham liquor businesses to close early on New Year’s Eve in an attempt to curb violence in the area.
The 2-year-old, found with the bodies of Javonni Jenkins, 27, and Curtis Hardman, 79, in Jenkins’ South Side apartment in early December, is now in the care of an aunt.
Only 280 Chicago homeowners have had a lead service line replaced under city programs the past two years — out of an estimated 390,000 lead lines, the most in any city in the United States.
Quentine Carradine, 49, was attacked near 87th and King Drive.
In its fifth year, “Be a Part of the Light” hopes to bring the Chatham community’s ethos to the rest of Chicago.
Almonte Kizer Jr., 20, was standing on the sidewalk about 7 p.m. in the 700 block of East 79th Street when someone opened fire, Chicago police said.
Keyonis Langston was in a car in the 8000 block of South Vernon Avenue when he was shot, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Robert Davidson, 16, was found in a black Kia in the 400 block of East 80th Street about 2:15 a.m. Thursday, Chicago police said.
Rickisha King-Tiggs was shot in her head and leg on the sidewalk in the 800 block of East 82nd Street Wednesday evening, police said.
“There are people that owe far more to Chicago, more water bills and light bills and everything else, than I do,” says Josephine’s Southern Cooking owner Josephine Wade.
The men were on a sidewalk in the 8600 block of South State Street when they were shot, police said.
The teen is hospitalized in serious condition after being struck several times in the 7800 block of South State Street early Monday morning, police said.
An argument preceded the stabbing in the 7900 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, police said.
A gray SUV hit the man, 59, in the 400 block of East 79th Street, police said.
The controversial religious leader and Chicago restaurant owner lived an expansive life as an international ambassador in the African Hebrew Israelite community before his death in August at age 81.
Jackson died in 1972, but her legacy lives on. The longtime Chicago resident is said to have influenced the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech after she performed at the March on Washington in 1963.
Pierre Robinson, 29, was found guilty of murder as part of a racketeering conspiracy in the December 2014 fatal shooting of 23-year-old Glenn Houston Jr.
Khalil White, 18, was in an alley about 4:50 p.m. in the 8700 block of South Wabash Avenue when someone shot him.