Pullman

The “Railroaders: Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography” exhibition, organized by Center for Railroad Photography & Art and Chicago History Museum, in the renovated Pullman Exhibit Hall.

Pullman

Exhibit on Chicago railroad workers pulls into Pullman

“Railroaders,” a joint project of the Chicago History Museum and the Center for Railroad Photography & Art, is on display through the end of the year at Pullman Exhibit Hall.

By Mariah Rush

A person was found dead Saturday on the West Side.

Crime

Man fatally shot following altercation at gas station in Pullman

The shooting happened about 3:50 p.m. at a gas station in the 700 block of East 103rd Street.

By Sun-Times Wire

Viktoria de Jong (right) talks to a 4-year-old boy as he sits on his mother’s lap after getting his first COVID-19 shot.

Coronavirus

Youngest Chicagoans focus of latest vaccination push

The Chicago Department of Public Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois are teaming up to open family vaccination clinics on the South Side throughout the summer.

By Mariah Rush

Ald. Anthony Beale (9th), shown at Chicago City Council in 2022.

City Hall

Ward map battle over, but bitterness lingers

“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.

By Fran Spielman

Pullman

Spotlight shines on Pullman porters in major expansion of South Side museum

A museum dedicated to the men was temporarily closed during the pandemic, but a grant allowing it to expand will help revitalize the northern end of the neighborhood, which is sometimes overlooked after Pullman was declared a National Historic Monument.

By Contributor

The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum honors A. Philip Randolph, who organized the first successful Black union in 1925.

Chicago

A. Philip Randolph Museum announces $30 million expansion

The announcement was made on what would have been the labor union pioneer’s 133rd birthday.

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

Teyonna Lofton, right, hugs Ambrosia Vasser, left, friends of activist LaNiyah Murphy, during a press conference at Ark of Saint Sabina in the Gresham neighborhood, where friends and family called for justice for Murphy, who was fatally shot in West Pullman on Jan. 4.

News

Community honors anti-violence activist fatally shot in West Pullman

Family, friends and community members held photos of LaNiyah Murphy as they shared a story of a beautiful, intelligent young woman who had overcome being shot and wounded in 2018.

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

Pullman

Hydroponic greenhouse planned for Pullman

A $1 million grant has jump-started the development for a 63,000 square foot greenhouse expected to produce 560,000 pounds of produce each year.

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

Early Walker, dressed as Santa Claus, hugs Aubrey Broughton, sister of 7-year-old Serenity Brughton, who was fatally shot in August, in the parking lot of the 5th District Police station in Pullman on Friday.

Chicago

Santa surprises Chicago girl, 6, who was wounded in a shooting that killed her sister: ‘I love her’

“The look on her face was priceless,” Aubrey Broughton’s dad said. “She’s so happy. I know she can’t wait to get home and open up everything.”

By Nader Issa

News

17-year-old boy dead, 14-year-old boy wounded in Pullman shooting

A 14-year-old boy stopped two officers about 7 p.m., telling them he and his brother had been shot in the 11100 block of South Doty Avenue, Chicago police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Chicago police investigate a shooting that killed 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams and wounded her father, Jontae Adams, 28, at a McDonald’s drive-through at the corner of West Roosevelt Road and South Kedzie Avenue in Lawndale, Sunday afternoon, April 18, 2021.

2021 in photos: A changed world with challenges ahead

By Sun-Times staff

Crime

2 teens shot in separate shootings on the South Side

The shootings happened in Englewood and Pullman.

By Jermaine Nolen

City Hall

Fight over ward boundaries appears headed for costly referendum after Lightfoot fails to forge weekend compromise

After months on the sidelines, Mayor Lori Lightfoot jumped into the fray over the weekend, trying to bring the two sides closer together. It didn’t work, and now the mayor sounds almost resigned to a referendum.

By Fran Spielman

Pullman

Culver’s opens in Pullman; continues community’s ‘renaissance’

Culver’s has become Pullman’s first stand-alone restaurant in more than 30 years. Its grand opening on Monday saw nearly 50 people gathered in celebration.

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

A rendering of senior housing planned at 9619-45 S. Cottage Grove Ave.

City Hall

Planning agency to review South Side church’s senior housing project

The development backed by Trinity United Church of Christ would mark a new phase of an envisioned “model community” called Imani Village.

By David Roeder

A new bike lane along West 119th Street and South Green Street in the West Pullman neighborhood is seen in this photo, Wednesday morning, Sept. 22, 2021. The Chicago Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that they are upgrading and building 100 miles of bike lanes across the city with the help of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago Works capital plan.

Transportation

City looks to add 100 miles of bike lanes by end of 2022

Chicago Department of Transportation will spend $17 million over the next two years to add bike lanes across the city, with a focus on the South and West sides.

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker cut the ribbon at the visitor center for the Pullman National Monument on Monday, Sept. 6, 2021.

Metro/State

Pullman National Monument a ‘testament to the power of our national parks’

Officials and politicians formally opened the monument to the public with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday.

By Rachel Hinton

Assistant Superintendent at the Pullman National Monument Sue Bennett points to a replica of the Pullman Palace Car Company factory that is on display at the Pullman National Monument’s visitor’s center on its opening day in the Pullman neighborhood, Saturday afternoon, Sept. 4, 2021.

Chicago

Pullman National Monument celebrates worker history at Labor Day weekend grand opening

The story of the Pullman railcar factory is one of workers, and that was on full display at Saturday’s Labor Day weekend grand opening of the Pullman National Monument’s visitor center.

By Nader Issa

Pullman

Visitor center opens at Pullman National Monument

The visitor center is inside the former administration building of the Pullman Palace Car Co. And for Labor Day weekend, Pullman-built railcars also will be on display.

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

Taste of Chicago To-Go, a scaled down, roaming pop-up food festival, kicked off in Pullman on Wednesday. It replaces the massive Taste of Chicago in Grant Park, which was canceled for the second year due to the pandemic.

Entertainment and Culture

Taste of Chicago pops up in Pullman

For the iconic summertime event, the city will continue practicing pandemic guidelines at “pop-up” events in neighborhoods.

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at the opening of a new facility in Pullman which features an indoor track, plus space for other After School Matters programs.

News

New indoor track in Pullman’s Gately Park will share space with After School Matters

The 139,000-square-foot facility has seating for 3,500 spectators at the track. There’s also room for art, dance and other programming for After School Matters, which partnered with the Chicago Park District to get it built.

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

The city opened an enlarged Carter G. Woodson Regional Library at 95th and Halsted streets in 2018.

Chicago Enterprise

‘Coalition of the willing’ meets a community in need

An organization backed by the private and nonprofit sectors, the Corporate Coalition of Chicago is working to bring businesses to areas lacking investment and the tools to get it.

By David Roeder

Crime

2 shot, 1 fatally, in Pullman

About 8:55 p.m., the pair was walking to their vehicle parked in an alley in the 12200 block of South Bishop Street when a black Chevy Equinox approached and someone inside fired several shots.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

Man charged with murder during botched armed robbery at Far South Side gas station

When Rodney Hawkins, 20, and two others tried to steal cash, shoes and a car from Kieer Pargo and another man at a Pullman Citgo Saturday, Pargo shot Hawkins. But then one of Hawkins’ cohorts returned fire and killed Pargo, Cook County prosecutors said.

By Matthew Hendrickson

Coronavirus

Some South Side residents 40 and older can get COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday in Pullman

About 1,000 Pfizer shots will be administered at the Pullman Community Center to residents; appointments are required to be made via email.

By Isabelle Sarraf

Metra Electric train at University Park.

Crime

Driver bolts from traffic stop, crashes into Metra train

He made it one block away before he drove around a closed train crossing and crashed into a passing train.

By David Struett

Joshua Stokes, 18, was found shot to death on in Austin.

Crime

Woman pistol-whipped, grazed by bullet in Pullman in presence of baby

The domestic-related shooting happened as she sat in a vehicle on the Far South Side,

By David Struett

Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) and Mayor Lori Lightfoot greet one another Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020 at the ceremonial opening of Chicago’s first Amazon Delivery Station, 10500 S. Woodlawn Ave. in Pullman.

City Hall

Lightfoot, Beale bury the hatchet — for now — at Amazon ribbon-cutting in Pullman

Did her attendance signal a political detente with one of her most vocal City Council critics? “I’m going anywhere where we’re creating jobs and opportunity for the residents of our city,” the mayor responded.

By Fran Spielman

The 100,000-square-foot Gotham Greens greenhouse in Pullman.

Business

Pullman’s successful turnaround might be a guide to helping other areas, study says

The University of Chicago report says the effort led by U.S. Bank offers lessons for other communities.

By David Roeder

Letters to the Editor

You’ve got two weeks left to get counted in the Census — for the sake of American justice

Not many people equate the Census with racial equity. But Census data is used to allocate resources for education, childcare, workforce training and health care.

By Letters to the Editor