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Using space at the former school for St. Agatha Catholic Church, the Sustainability Hub is a venture between a developer and others to address workforce development and economic justice.
Ronald Nolton went to school and rapped as Lil Ronald. After his mother died, “everything changed. His whole life changed,” his older sister Paulina Nolton says. “A part of him left with her.”
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.
The 33-year-old was shot while in the 8900 block of South Brandon Avenue, police said.
Ronald Nalton was shot while inside a car in the 2300 block of East 80th Street, police said.
A man was shot to death and a woman beaten to death in what police say is a ‘domestic-related’ attack in South Chicago. One person is in custody.
5 South Side groups awarded $1 million in grants will offer free services to ‘transform health care’
Groups like Dion’s Chicago Dream and Trek World USA have been given grants from South Side Community Health Organization.
In the 10th, Yessenia Carreón, Peter Chico, Ana Guajardo, Óscar Sanchez and Jessica Venegas are running to succeed Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza. And in the 12th, newly appointed Ald. Anabel Abarca is challenged by Julia Ramirez.
The boy was standing with two girls about 9:15 p.m. when three males walked up to them and began shooting, police said. He is hospitalized in good condition.
The vehicle was outside the Collins & Stone Funeral Home when it was stolen Saturday afternoon, Rockford police said. The body of a man was found in South Chicago.
Crews responded to the residential fire in the 8200 block of South Saginaw Avenue just after midnight, Chicago police said.
The boy was in a car in the the 8500 block of S. South Chicago Avenue when someone fired shots, police said.
Two men were shot in the 8700 block of South Commercial Avenue. Both men died due to their injuries, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Over the course of the three-day event, street artists will be decorating viaducts under the Chicago Skyway.
The shooting happened Sunday night in the 8600 block of South Kingston Avenue.
The four were on a porch in the 8600 block of South Kingston Avenue when they were attacked Sunday, police said.
He was shot while walking in the 7900 block of South Crandon Avenue Friday night, police said.
The two men were fatally shot Saturday during an argument with another person in the 8300 block of South Paxton Avenue, police said.
Construction on the $43 million development at 79th and Halsted streets is expected to start Wednesday, with the city promising that pending projects in other areas will follow.
He was found on a sidewalk in the 2500 block of East 84th Street, police said.
The George Washington High School teachers who led protests against General Iron’s move to the Southeast Side will get warnings instead.
Fresh Move employees say they’ve had to double their orders from urban farms to keep up with community needs amid high grocery prices and a lack of fresh food options on the city’s South and West sides.
Last year on Independence Day, Chicago reached a level of air pollution four times the hourly average of a normal summer day. “By 10:30 at night, it’s just a hazy fog and smoke everywhere that you can see,” one resident said.
Meet Zilly and Ella, the newest “dog-tors” at La Rabida Children’s Hospital. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office has partnered with the hospital to bring the two therapy dogs to the Outpatient Center each week.
The new plover was sighted late afternoon Tuesday, and was identified as a 5-year-old female who usually nests at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan.
Officers responded to the fire in the 3000 block of East 79th Place about 1:20 a.m.
A researcher is asking families to get children on the Southeast Side tested for manganese, lead and other contaminants.
About 11:30 a.m., he was in the 8300 block of South Houston Avenue, when he was shot in the right shoulder.
The playground was built atop a system that catches and stores stormwater before slowly releasing it into sewers to prevent them from becoming overwhelmed.