Greater Grand Crossing
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 fund was created by the mayor’s predecessor, Rahm Emanuel. Developers are allowed to build bigger and taller projects downtown if they pay into the fund, which focuses on long-neglected South and West side neighborhoods.
The 29-year-old was inside a vehicle in the 7300 block of South Dorchester Avenue, when someone shot him in the left side of his body.
The group was standing in the parking lot of a Subway, 6718 S. Stony Island Ave., when a dark-colored sedan drove by and someone inside fired shots.
He was on the sidewalk in the 7200 block of South Blackstone Avenue, when he heard shots and felt pain.
The shooting happened on Ellis Avenue.
She was sitting in the passenger seat of a 2005 Honda Odyssey at a gas station in the 7600 block of South Harvard Street when a male armed with a handgun jumped in the driver’s seat.
The grants, which go to 81 community organizations, result from the law legalizing adult-use marijuana in Illinois. It requires 25% of pot tax revenues help communities suffering from economic disinvestment, violence, and the multilayered harm of disparate weed enforcement.
Someone opened fire about 2:50 a.m. in the fourth-floor hallway in the 6400 block of South King Drive, police said.
He was crossing the street about 4:10 p.m. in the 7700 block of South Maryland Avenue when someone fired shots, police said.
The victim was identified as 29-year-old Quinyon M. Norman Jr.
Larry Morris allegedly told officers at the Grand Crossing District station he killed 61-year-old Kevin Sudduth Sr. because he believed Sudduth had stolen his identity and $80,000.
About 1 a.m. he was walking in the 1400 block of East 73rd Street, when someone in a passing black SUV fired shots at him.
About 4:10 a.m. he was in the backyard of a residence at a gathering in the 7000 block of South Harper Avenue, when someone walked up to him and shot him in the back.
He went to Jackson Park Hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead, police said.
Someone fired shots during a fight at a park in the 100 block of West 66th Street, grazing the girl on her face. A relative drove her to St. Bernard Hospital in fair condition.
Detectives are questioning a person of interest in the afternoon shooting at Dunmore Auto Sales, authorities say.
A man sped off from a traffic stop “in an erratic manner” before his vehicle hit two other vehicles and rolled over, police said.
Lee’s Unleaded Blues in Grand Crossing is a finalist for the city’s Neighborhood Opportunity Fund grant.
“It was very simple to us. We were just putting shelves on an abandoned building and calling it a ‘market.’ But to people, it became a place for them to congregate,” said Jon Veal, co-founder of Alt Space.
Chicago’s response rate is 55 percent — 20 points shy of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s goal. In some South and West Side neighborhoods that desperately need an infusion of federal funding, the response rate is less than 40 percent.
The two-count suit alleges wrongful death against Maqkwone Jones’ foster mother — both individually and in her capacity as a foster parent for DCFS — as well as a man who lived with her.
The shooting comes just hours after a violent weekend that saw 18 people dead — three of them children.
All three victims were in good condition, police said.
Daevon Brownlee allegedly opened fire on the trio Friday morning on the South Side.
The man was shot multiple times and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
With help from the state, the owner of Brown Sugar Bakery is buying a staple on the Southwest Side, Cupid Candies.
No injuries were reported, but the Illinois Department of Human Services was called to assist five adults and two children with housing, according to fire officials.
Officers responding to a burglar alarm at a school met with an employee who say security footage of a man trying to unscrew a camera in the main office.