Chatham
Retiring U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who led protests after the Target closing was announced, had the gleeful final word at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the call center.
The Cook County Land Bank Authority is barred from putting in a claim on occupied property, but it did so for Josephine’s Cooking and held onto it as the restaurant kept operating and its unpaid taxes kept piling up.
On Friday, anti-violence activist Andrew Holmes and the family of Imani Abitalib canvassed the neighborhood where she was killed, posting flyers on parked cars and tucking them inside mailboxes.
Ald. Roderick Sawyer’s father, Eugene Sawyer, was mayor in the late 1980s. Roderick Sawyer chairs the City Council’s Committee on Health and Human Relations and is a former chair of the council’s Black Caucus. He’s the fifth candidate seeking to deny Mayor Lori Lightfoot a second term.
“Look what you’ve done. Englewood still has six aldermen. … It’s gonna take an hour and a half for Altgeld Gardens residents who were taken out of my ward and put in the 10th Ward to get to their alderman,” Ald. Anthony Beale (9th), said Monday.
Josephine’s Cooking in Chatham hasn’t paid its property taxes in 12 years. Thanks to the actions of the Cook County Land Bank Authority, it’s avoided losing the property through a tax sale.
Timothy Royster, 21, is accused of breaking into a home in the 800 block of East 83rd Street around 4:20 a.m. Sunday.
The management company and the owner of the properties dispute residents’ claims about deteriorating conditions, saying they have been making improvements in recent months.
“To shoot in that car, you know kids [are] in there, you have to be a demonic soul,” Shenell Griffin said after her son and granddaughter were shot in the 7900 block of South King Drive.
Marquise Smith, of West Pullman, was charged with a felony count of first-degree murder.
The settlement is the largest of several tied to allegations of police wrongdoing on Monday’s Finance Committee agenda. It goes to David Brown, whose wife was fatally struck by a car whose driver was fleeing police.
Antwan K. Williams, 41, was found Sunday afternoon in a residence in the 8100 block of South Drexel Avenue with a gunshot wound to his armpit, police said.
Jackson also offered to broker peace between Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and Mayor Lori Lightfoot. “They’re talking past each other...let’s talk it out in private and not in public,,” Jackson said Thursday.
About 4:25 p.m., he was inside a vehicle in the 8400 block of South Holland Road, when he was struck by gunfire.
“This tells me we made a great decision,” CEO and President Roger Hochschild says of putting the call center in a disinvested community.
About 11:55 p.m., the two teens were walking in the 8700 block of South Holland Road
The 75th Street boardwalk won awards and drew a visit from Vice President Kamala Harris. Then a mass shooting brought unwanted attention.
A 36-year-old was found unresponsive in an apartment in the 8000 block of South Ingleside Avenue.
A man and woman were among a group just before 2 a.m. in the 7500 block of South Saint Lawrence when gunfire erupted, police said.
In June, the median list price of homes in Belmont Cragin was $360,000, up 19% from June 2020, according to Realtor.com. But high demand led to overbidding, driving the median sale price even higher — to $375,000
The man died after someone approached him in the 500 block of East 79th Street and shot him in the chest.
The Academy, opening in a Walmart that was closed for months by last year’s looting, joins similar facilities offering jobs courses at Walmart locations in Orland Hills and Crystal Lake.
Tony Shields, 29, faces a murder charge in the November stabbing of his boyfriend, Malcolm Mullins, 29.
Ald. Roderick Sawyer envisioned a booming voice emitted from a drone that would disrupt criminal behavior: “We see you....we’re recording you right now... we see everything that you’re doing.”
She was taken to University of Chicago Hospital in serious condition, police said.
Rosemary Townsend was last seen Monday and is missing from the 8100 South Drexel Avenue.
About 9 p.m., he was in the 8300 block of South Vincennes Avenue, when he going into a fight with a 30-year-old man who pulled out a gun.
Printiss Jones, 25, was found shot in the head and arm at 7 p.m. on Jan. 4 by Chicago police officers responding to a call of gunfire at Jones’ apartment in the 7800 block of South Indiana Avenue.
Police cancelled a missing person alert about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, saying she was located safely.