South Deering

Calumet Fisheries reopening pushed back until April, co-owner says: 'Customers are raring for us to go'

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.

By David Struett

“Big Hill” seen on the right side of this photo is where eight new bike trails are to be made, said executive director of Friends of Big Marsh, Paul Fitzgerald.

South Deering

Big Marsh Park looks to add new mountain bike trails after supporters raise $360K of $1.5M goal

The mountain bike trails will include ramps, sharp turns, jumps and hills. There will also be pedestrian-friendly parts to the trail.

By Phyllis Cha

Three people were killed in separate crashes across the Chicago area during a winter storm early Saturday.

Crime

4 seriously injured in Far South Side crash

Firefighters responded to a crash in the 12400 block of South Torrence Avenue, just outside the Ford plant, about 9 p.m. Wednesday.

By Sun-Times Wire

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Crime

Man shot, killed in South Deering

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.

By Sun-Times Wire

City Hall

City’s most violent Memorial Day weekend in 7 years ‘intolerable,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson says

Reducing crime wave will take time, says City Hall source.

By Fran Spielman and David Struett

News

10 injured in South Deering crash

Seven adults and three children were taken to hospitals following the crash Saturday in the 12100 block of South Torrence Avenue, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

A girl, 17, was hurt in a shooting May 26, 2022 in Ravenswood Manor.

Crime

Man killed in South Deering shooting

The man, 25, was on a sidewalk about 4:15 p.m. Friday when he was shot in the back.

By Sun-Times Wire

Chicago

2 firefighters rescued after floor collapses in Jeffrey Manor fire

Both firefighters were hospitalized with injuries not considered to be serious.

By Sun-Times Wire

Anna Johnson (left) and Marie Collins-Wright outside Pullman Innovations, a company that they say fills their South Deering neighborhood with foul smells.

Polluters like Southeast Side plant often get a pass on air-quality violations in Chicago, Sun-Times finds

By Brett Chase

Crime

2 fatally shot inside South Deering home

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.

By Sun-Times Wire

Mayor Lori Lightfoot denied a bid for the relocated General Iron to reopen on the Southeast Side after community protest. The owner is challenging the decision, saying it was purely political.

News

City health official defends denial of Southeast Side metal shredder’s permit

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.

By Brett Chase

Activist Andrew Holmes holds up gun locks Monday in front of a billboard he commissioned to raise awareness of gun safety. The billboard is near 95th Street and Oglesby Avenue on the South Side.

News

Community activist turns attention to safety locks to promote responsible gun ownership

“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

By Matthew Hendrickson

A Red Line train travels toward the 95th Street station on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022.

City Hall

City Council OKs mass transit TIF to help bankroll Red Line South extension

The new transit tax increment financing district will fund about one-fourth of the cost of extending the CTA Red Line to 130th Street.

By Fran Spielman

Documentary filmmaker Steven Walsh at Big Marsh Park, 11559 S. Stony Island Ave.

Entertainment and Culture

Steel mill closings explored in new documentary

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.

By Michael Loria

Trinity Colòn in front of George Washington High School.

Education

Parents, educators at George Washington High School call on CPS to do something after ceiling caves

A large metal beam collapsed, striking a staff member.

By Michael Loria

A protester attends a rally near Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home last year urging her to deny the final permit for a Southeast Side scrap-metal operation.

Environment

City official lays out stark disparities between Lincoln Park, Southeast Side where scrap-metal shredder wants to open

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.

By Brett Chase

Crime

Man killed in shooting in South Deering

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.

By Sun-Times Wire

A woman ran to the Engine 81 firehouse at 10458 S. Hoxie Ave. and claimed a man poured gasoline on her and lit her on fire. She died a month later.

Crime

Man set wife on fire after dousing her in lighter fluid: prosecutors

Luevenia Gardner took off her burning clothes and jumped into a shower to put out the flames before running two blocks to a South Side firehouse on April 16, prosecutors said. She died a month later.

By Matthew Hendrickson and David Struett

Seven people were killed including five children in a crash July 31, 2022 in McHenry County.

Crime

Armed robberies reported near gas station in South Deering: police

In each incident, victims are robbed by one or two armed males as they are leaving a gas station.

By Sun-Times Wire

Two people were shot, one fatally, July 24, 2021, in Gage Park.

Crime

Teen boy wounded in drive-by in South Deering

About 3 a.m., he was walking home when he noticed a person get out of a dark-colored vehicle in the 9600 block of South Exchange Avenue, and opened fire.

By Sun-Times Wire