Morgan Park

A woman in the other vehicle involved in the crash declined medical attention.
The 46th annual parade along Western Avenue will be held March 17.
The tents are expected to be completed in a matter of days and will house 500 migrants at first.
The Chicago City Council put off a vote on accepting donated land at 115th and Halsted that would be the site of a migrant tent camp. Also delayed was a vote on whether to put a binding referendum on the March ballot to raise the real estate transfer tax to fund programs to reduce homelessness.
Under pressure to get migrants off the floors of police stations and airports, the committee acted over the objections of South Side Ald. Ronnie Mosley (21st).
Ald. Ronnie Mosley led a meeting about a potential site at 115th and Halsted in Morgan Park Wednesday.
As James Coles left his mother’s Morgan Park home to see a friend, Jacqueline Coles grabbed him by the wrist and told him to be careful. Hours later, she stood outside Christ Medical Center as doctors tried in vain to save him.
Witnesses said several shots were fired outside of Mount Carmel after the Caravan beat Morgan Park. One victim was left in critical condition.
The shooting happened around 5:30 p.m. near 111th Street and Racine Avenue.
Police said they recovered the DNA from one of the victims, but so far the teen has been charged only with having a loaded gun when officers stopped him earlier this week.
The children were wounded in neighborhoods on the South Side that bore the brunt of shootings over the weekend and that have recorded more homicides than this time a year ago.
Four community leaders vie for City Council seats left open by the departures of longtime alderpersons Sawyer and Brookins.
Austin retired effective March 1. Mayor Lori Lightfoot can appoint a two-month caretaker for her old 34th Ward boundaries or the Far South Side or leave the ward without an alderperson.
Nykee Owens, 19, pulled out a handgun as he stepped between 30-year-old Kenard Milsap and Milsap’s cousin just after 2 a.m. on Sept. 24, prosecutors said.
Former Area South Detective Cmdr. Rodney Blisset said there was no reason to ‘dump’ a detective who supervised a police shooting investigation.
Isaac Lambert has sued city, CPD claiming he was demoted for refusing to cover for a fellow officer who shot an unarmed, disabled teen in 2017.
Detective Isaac Lambert says he was demoted after he refused to clear a fellow officer in the 2017 shooting of 18-year-old Ricardo Hayes.
The Far South Community Development Corp. is putting final touches on a housing proposal as it looks for other ways to improve the area.
They were sitting in a parked car in the 11300 block of South May Street when they were shot.
Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), chairman of the City Council’s Black Caucus, said the Save A Lot name that will be revived by stores operated by Yellow Banana has been seriously damaged by store closings.