South Deering

The girl was crossing the street with two women in the 9500 block of South Paxton Avenue about 8:40 p.m. July 18 when the driver drove through a red light and struck her. The girl was injured.
The teen was standing on the sidewalk about 7:40 p.m. in the 2500 block of East 106th Street when two males approached and fired shots at him, according to Chicago police.
The woman struck a pole in the 3000 block of East 106th Street, police said.
Mark Kotlick was praying for reconstruction to finish by the end of Lent on March 31, the take-out spot’s busiest season. But he needs a few more weeks to order custom-made refrigerators and deli counters.
The mountain bike trails will include ramps, sharp turns, jumps and hills. There will also be pedestrian-friendly parts to the trail.
Firefighters responded to a crash in the 12400 block of South Torrence Avenue, just outside the Ford plant, about 9 p.m. Wednesday.
A 24-year-old man was shot multiple times in the 9700 block of South Merrion Avenue, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Seven adults and three children were taken to hospitals following the crash Saturday in the 12100 block of South Torrence Avenue, police said.
The man, 25, was on a sidewalk about 4:15 p.m. Friday when he was shot in the back.
Both firefighters were hospitalized with injuries not considered to be serious.
A man and woman were pronounced dead at the scene after a Chicago police SWAT team responded to a report of gunshots inside the home.
A health department official says the city considered many issues, including air quality and health in the surrounding community, in nixing a scrap business along Calumet River.
“It’s pretty simple: Children are getting a hold of the guns and shooting themselves or turning it on their brothers and sisters accidentally,” Andrew Holmes said Monday
The new transit tax increment financing district will fund about one-fourth of the cost of extending the CTA Red Line to 130th Street.
Steven Walsh’s film, “Southeast: a City Within a City,” explores the impact of the decline of the city’s steel mills on the people who lived nearby and worked in the mills.
Those living in three South Side communities have lower life expectancy, worse quality of life than residents around General Iron’s longtime Lincoln Park home, city official says.
About 4:20 p.m., he was on the sidewalk in the 10200 block of South Yates Boulevard, when someone in a vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots.