Englewood
The two men, 22 and 21, were standing on the street early Wednesday morning in the 6300 block of South Carpenter Street when gunmen fired at them from an alley, Chicago police said.
Power outages from Monday’s storms caused some South Side food pantries to lose hundreds of pounds of food. They were able to stay open with help from other pantries that had a surplus.
About 11:55 p.m. Saturday, the driver, a 25-year-old man, was found unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso after he struck a viaduct in the 5800 block of South Elizabeth Street, Chicago police said.
About 11:50 p.m., the man, 35, was arguing with an unidentified male in the 6000 block of South Winchester Avenue when he was shot multiple times, Chicago police said.
Wood Street Urban Farm in Englewood hopes to expand to include a cafe, retail store, commercial kitchen and food processing facility to keep produce that had been sent to markets in North Side neighborhoods closer to home.
A boy was in a car in a vacant lot in the 7400 block of South Lowe Avenue just before 3 p.m. Tuesday when four people approached him and started shooting, police said.
The man was walking in the 6300 block of South Stewart Avenue when a group approached and someone stabbed him, police said.
Chicago House will offer housing to 13 families on West 63rd Street in a neighborhood with a high rate of HIV infection. The site will also contain office space for staffers overseeing residential units citywide.
Marvel White, 16, was arguing with someone about 6:40 p.m. in the the 6500 block of South Racine Avenue. The other person then shot him in the chest and legs with a handgun.
Englewood First Responders violence prevention group vows to carry on after volunteer is gunned down
“When we put out one fire, another will spark up,” Englewood First Responders founder Charles McKenzie said after Dennis Green was fatally shot this month. “But my motto is, we keep hitting it until we get the fires out.”
Violent Father's Day weekend in Chicago ends with at least 25 people shot in five hours early Monday
In all, at least 72 people were hit by gunfire from Friday evening through the predawn hours of Monday, according to data collected by the Sun-Times. Eight of them died.
A 15-year-old girl was among 5 wounded in Humboldt Park around 12:45 a.m. Monday. In total, more than 20 people were shot in Chicago in a little more than four hours early Monday.
The final straw for Ald. David Moore and his constituents was the killing Sunday night of 18-year-old Trinity Boswell.
Morgan Stanley employees joined Kaboom staffers in creating a safe play space at the Mitzi Freidheim Child & Family Center. “Being able to wave to the kids and seeing the excitement on their faces has been just amazing,” one volunteer said.
The 49-year-old man was in an argument while trying to deliver food, then someone fired shots, police said.
No arrests have been made in any of the attacks. The number of shootings rivals Memorial Day weekend, when at least 42 people were shot between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Tuesday. Nine people were shot to death that weekend.
A marked squad car was eastbound about 7:10 p.m. on 63rd Street when it struck an unmarked squad car traveling south on Racine Avenue, Chicago police said. One of the squad cars struck a Cadillac.
The bizarre details in a police report describe how the mother was followed by at least one man into a Northwest Side home. The man punched her repeatedly before he forced her and her baby into a waiting SUV as she yelled for help.
Sunni Powell, who cuts the hair of some cast members, will open up his business to celebrate the Season 12 finale.
Jeremiah Doyle was found with a gunshot wound to the head just before 3 p.m. in a home in the 7100 block of South Winchester Avenue.