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Friday, April 26, 2024

Little Village

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Crime
Boy, 16, shot in Little Village
The teenager was shot multiple times about 12:30 p.m. in the 2400 block of South Albany Avenue.
By Sun-Times Wire
 
Red crime scene tape is seen lit up from a car’s headlights.
Crime
One man dead, one wounded in Little Village shooting
Enrique Victor was shot in the head and the abdomen and taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital where he died, 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
Two men in critical condition after South Lawndale shooting
After a physical altercation at about 5:20 a.m. Sunday with another individual inside a residence in the 2500 block of South Trumbull Avenue, a 37-year-old and a 23-year-old, were shot multiple times throughout their bodies, police said.
By Violet Miller
 
A man was fatally shot Saturday afternoon in Englewood.
Crime
Man fatally shot in Little Village
The man, 23, was shot in the head Saturday in the 3400 block of West 24th Street.
By Sun-Times Wire
 
Pedro Flores (izquierda) y su hermano Margarito Flores fueron alguna vez los mayores narcotraficantes de Chicago hasta que fueron capturados y acordaron ayudar a las autoridades federales a derrocar al capo del cartel de Sinaloa Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.
La Voz Chicago
Hermano mayor de gemelos narcotraficantes de Chicago sentenciado por ayudar a lavar dinero de la droga
Armando Flores, hermano de Margaritoy Pedro Flores, admitió haber escondido $2.3 millones de los ingresos de drogas de los gemelos bajo su porche trasero en Texas. Le concedieron “tiempo cumplido” por los 19 meses que pasó en la cárcel.
By Frank Main
 
Pedro Flores (izquierda) y su hermano Margarito Flores fueron alguna vez los mayores narcotraficantes de Chicago hasta que fueron capturados y acordaron ayudar a las autoridades federales a derrocar al capo del cartel de Sinaloa Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.
In El Chapo fallout, older brother of twin Chicago drug traffickers sentenced for helping launder their money
By Frank Main
 
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Chicago
Clock in iconic Little Village arch — notorious for not telling time — to be fixed
The Centenario clock has not worked for decades, despite the best efforts by community groups to repair it.
By Jackie Serrato
 
Un participante del desfile ondea una bandera mexicana durante el Desfile del Día de la Independencia de México a lo largo de la Calle 26 en La Villita.
La Voz Chicago
FOTOS: Miles asisten a desfile de independencia en La Villita el 16 de septiembre
Por primera vez desde su inicio, el desfile se llevó a cabo en el día de independencia.
By Violet Miller
 
A fence surrounding Douglass Park is adorned with a message reading “No parks for profit!!” on Saturday, the second day of Riot Fest.
Riot Fest
Anti-Riot Fest graffiti greets festival guests at Douglass Park
Spray painted messages of ‘Get Out!!!’ And ‘No Park For Profit!’ allude to festival opposition by some Lawndale and Little Village neighbors.
By Bob Chiarito | Special to the Sun-Times
 
Un participante del desfile ondea una bandera mexicana durante el Desfile del Día de la Independencia de México a lo largo de la Calle 26 en La Villita.
News
Mexican Independence Day Parade puts heritage on display in Little Village
The parade landed on the holiday for the first time in its 26 years, bringing out more spectators after bad weather and COVID had dampened the event in recent years.
By Violet Miller
 
Maria de la Luz Rodriguez hands out fliers to her community meeting set for Monday at 5 p.m. about Cooperativa La Villita in Little Village. The group aims to explore starting their own housing cooperative in the neighborhood to try to fend off gentrification and displacement.
Little Village
Fighting gentrification in Little Village, residents look to create a housing co-op
Worried about being priced out of their community, a group is exploring how to buy a building together and live there: “I don’t want to leave,” one person says. “There are many people who love Little Village but had to leave.”
By Elvia Malagón
 
Desde que funcionarios votaron en enero para convertir el arco en un monumento histórico reconocido por la Municipalidad, su mantenimiento y cuidado cae bajo el Departamento de Transporte de Chicago (CDOT).
La Voz Chicago
Reloj del arco de La Villita no será reinstalado para el desfile mexicano
El Departamento de Transporte está rehabilitando el arco, incluyendo el reloj, y aseguran que este volverá a su lugar a fin de año.
By Jackie Serrato
 
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Little Village youth share culture through graffiti mural project
By Sandra Treviño
 
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News
Three people wounded in Little Village shooting
Police found multiple people with gunshot wounds inside a car in the 2300 block of South Whipple Street.
By Sun-Times Wire
 
Se acaba el tiempo para evitar la demolición de los históricos silos de grano, situados junto al Río Chicago, cerca de la calle 29th y la Avenida Damen. | Mark Capapas/Archivos Sun-Times
La Voz Chicago
Municipalidad promete que la demolición de los Damen Silos será diferente que la implosión en La Villita
Decenas de residentes expresaron su preocupación por la destrucción planeada de las enormes estructuras del lado suroeste.
By Brett Chase
 
Crime scene tape. File photo.
Crime
Man, 61, fatally shot in Little Village
The shooting happened late Friday in the 2600 block of West Luther.
By Sun-Times Wire
 
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Crime
Man fatally shot in Little Village
Claronte Cummings, 28, was found facedown with a gunshot wound to the head in the 3000 block of West 21st Place.
By Sun-Times Wire
 
Activists chant during a press conference outside the Civilian Office of Police Accountability in the West Town neighborhood, where the Little Village Community Council and other activists demanded the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to be transparent, ensure the safety of asylum seekers and hold police officers accountable, July 12, 2023.
City Hall
West Side activists slam investigation of alleged Chicago police sexual misconduct involving migrants
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability cannot be trusted, the activists said, urging migrants to seek help from local community groups.
By Michael Loria
 
Red crime scene tape is seen lit up from a car’s headlights.
Crime
Dad accused of shooting wife, 15-year-old daughter, then chasing son after wounding him. ‘Where are you? Where are you?’
The 17-year-old son, shot in the ankle, hid behind parked cars and fled to a neighbor’s house in the 2600 block of South Millard Avenue, according to a police report.
By Cindy Hernandez and Sophie Sherry
 
Daniela China, a vendor at the Little Village Discount Mall, sits inside her stall inside the neighborhood icon on West 26th Street.
Little Village
Little Village Discount Mall vendors see drastic declines in shoppers, sales
Dozens of sellers remaining at the retail center say business has fallen up to 80% since half the businesses were forced to move out, and fear out-of-state shoppers may think the entire mall is closed.
By Michael Loria
 
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Crime
15-year-old boy shot to death in Little Village
The boy was shot in the chest in the 2200 block of South California Avenue, police said. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
By Sun-Times Wire
 
This mural at 2135 S. Western Ave. was inspired by the 1996 sci-fi comedy film “Mars Attacks!”
When your kids love ‘Mars Attacks!’ Chicago tattoo shop owner figured you need a mural with aliens
By Sun-Times staff
 
Vendors pack up their shops on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 and move out of the Little Village Discount Mall, 3115 W. 26th St.
Business
Former Village Discount Mall vendors have mixed success beyond it
Several in the group of about 40 vendors forced out of the mall have tried different means of remaining in business, but they say they feel isolated without one another.
By Michael Loria
 
The George N. Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
Crime
Man in ‘peacekeepers’ vest charged with robbing, beating man in Little Village
Police said Oscar Montes and another man were seen on a police surveillance camera striking a man seated in a car late Friday in the 2300 block of South Washtenaw Avenue.
By David Struett
 
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Crime
Man fatally shot in Little Village
Johnathan Salgado, 22, was shot in the 2400 block of South Homan Avenue, police said.
By Sun-Times Wire
 
Esmeralda Hernandez, 46, near her home in Little Village. She’s against plans now being considered in Springfield that would widen the nearby Stevenson Expressway.
Environment
Stevenson Expressway road-widening plans have some in Little Village worried air pollution will get worse
Little Village residents, already exposed to high levels of air pollution, fear that a legislative plan that would add lanes, paid for with private funding, would worsen health risks.
By Aydali Campa | Inside Climate News and Brett Chase
 
Emiliano Zapata Elementary Academy, 2728 S Kostner Ave., photographed in October 2016.
Immigration
Dozens of new immigrants joining Chicago Public Schools as school year nears end
As many as 50 immigrant children staying temporarily at Piotrowski Park joined Zapata Academy and other grammar schools in South Lawndale, and about a dozen youths may enroll in Little Village Lawndale High School, the Sun-Times has learned.
By Michael Loria
 
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Crime
Chicago gun violence: 2 killed, 24 wounded in weekend shootings
A man was shot to death Friday evening in Riverdale on the Far South Side, and a 17-year-old boy was shot to death in North Lawndale early Saturday
By Sun-Times Wire
 
Salvador Jiménez-Flores, who created “Caminantes,” a nine-foot sculpture that commemorates migrants and their migration journey through the symbolism of feet and cacti, stands beside his sculpture at Manuel Perez Jr. Plaza in the Little Village neighborhood, Friday, May 19, 2023.
Art
New Little Village sculpture celebrates arriving immigrants: ‘We underestimate how courageous people are’
The work by Chicago-based artist Salvador Jiménez-Flores was made after Flores won the Chicago Sculpture Exhibit’s Richard Hunt Award. It’s one of 42 the exhibit is installing this month.
By Michael Loria
 
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La Voz Chicago
On Día de las Madres, Chicago street vendors sell flowers and chocolates to passing cars
Street vendors on the South Side are setting up shop for Día de las Madres, which takes place Wednesday in many Latin American countries.
By Ambar Colón
 
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