Woodlawn

Crime

Labor Day violence: 10 killed, 34 wounded in Chicago, including 6-year-old boy

The boy was shot during a family gathering Sunday evening in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the South Side.

By Sun-Times Wire

Police tape outside Mount Carmel High School, 6410 S. Dante Ave., Friday night, Sept. 1, 2023. Officers had responded after shots were fired following a football game between Morgan Park and Mount Carmel.

Crime

2 teens shot after Mount Carmel-Morgan Park football game

Witnesses said several shots were fired outside of Mount Carmel after the Caravan beat Morgan Park. One victim was left in critical condition.

By Michael O’Brien, Cindy Hernandez, and 1 more

Crime

4-year-old boy, man wounded in Woodlawn shooting

The two were in a car Thursday afternoon in the 1500 block of East 65th Street when someone in another vehicle opened fire, Chicago police say.

By Sophie Sherry, Emmanuel Camarillo, and 1 more

Crime

2 people found dead in cars 25 minutes apart on South Side

A man was found about noon Tuesday in the Woodlawn neighborhood, and a woman was found about 12:25 p.m. in the Fuller Park neighborhood, about 4 miles away.

By Sun-Times Wire

Artist Germane Barnes stands in front in is installation “Be Careful, I Always Am” at the Emmett & Mamie Till-Mobley House Museum, Garden and Theatre located at 6427 South St. Lawrence Avenue in the West Woodlawn during a celebration event honoring Emmett Till’s birthday, Sunday, July 23, 2023.

News

Emmett Till-inspired art installation marks groundbreaking on work to restore his former Woodlawn home

The annual ice cream social to celebrate Emmett Till’s birthday also marked the opening of an interactive art installation, titled “Be Careful, I Always Am,” by Chicago-born artist Germane Barnes.

By David Struett

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

Crime

Infant girl dies after being found unresponsive in Woodlawn day care crib

Omega Coombs died after being taken from the day care to Comer Children’s Hospital, police said. There were no visible signs of trauma on the girl.

By Sun-Times Wire

Vice President Kamala Harris Rev. Jesse Jackson Apostolic Church of God Woodlawn Chicago Rainbow PUSH Coalition

News

‘Fighter for freedom’: Kamala Harris praises legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson at Rainbow PUSH Coalition convention

Vice President Harris said that when she was in law school in the 1980s, she had a ‘Jesse Jackson for President’ bumper sticker on her car.

By Jacquelyne Germain

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. at a 1984-1988 presidential campaign reunion reception on Friday at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Community Hall on the South Side.

Politics

Rev. Jesse Jackson will be succeeded by Dallas pastor as head of Rainbow PUSH

The Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church, is to be formally introduced Sunday at the coalition’s annual convention.

By Kaitlin Washburn

Renault Robinson founded the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League alongside fellow CPD officer, Edward “Buzz” Palmer.

Obituaries

Renault Robinson, 80, dies — co-founded advocacy group for Black police officers, won lawsuit against CPD, briefly led CHA

Renault Robinson spent his life advocating for civil rights and sought to improve relations between the police and Black communities throughout Chicago.

By Jacquelyne Germain

Music

House music fans celebrate the Chicago-born genre at the Chosen Few picnic

Desiree Taylor, 47, from Baltimore, came to Chicago for the first time with eight friends who go to house music festivals every year for the “funkier” and “more soulful” approach of house music.

By Violet Miller

Naomi Davis Green Living Room Woodlawn coffee shop Blacks in Green.

Environment

In Woodlawn, Naomi Davis planted a seed that now will help find green solutions to help Black communities

Her Blacks in Green organization is getting $10 million from the Biden administration to help build on her efforts and expand them across the Midwest.

By Brett Chase and Aydali Campa | Inside Climate News

Asylum seekers wait on a CTA bus blocked by two men opposing their arrival at a temporary shelter at the former James Wadsworth Elementary School at 6420 S. University Ave. in Woodlawn, Thursday, Feb. 2.

Immigration

Immigrant who died at Woodlawn shelter identified: ‘He was a very good person’

Luis Alberto Aguilar Peres, 26, was a father and husband who made the trek from Venezuela to the United States for a better life, his friend said. He died Friday.

By Emmanuel Camarillo

Immigrants carry their belongings into a former Woodlawn elementary school converted into a temporary shelter earlier this year.

City Hall

Immigrant dies at shelter at shuttered Woodlawn school that stirred controversy

Though the police haven’t said any crime was involved in the death, Ald. Jeanette Taylor said the first known death of an immigrant at a city of Chicago-operated shelter will heighten community concerns.

By Fran Spielman, Tom Schuba, and 1 more

Los robos ocurrieron entre las 7:20 y las 8:20 a.m. el jueves, según la policía. | Archivos Sun-Times

Crime

Man fatally shot in Woodlawn

The 26-year-old man was shot in the back while leaving a gas station in the 500 block of East 67th Street, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

Three people shot in Woodlawn

Two men and a woman were in the 6700 block of South Eberhart Avenue when gunfire erupted about 1:30 a.m.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

Man killed, woman wounded in Woodlawn shooting

The man, 30, was driving with a 22-year-old woman when two men walked toward their car and began shooting, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime

Man fatally shot in Woodlawn home

Lorenzo Rainey, 40, was shot in the neck in the 6100 block of South Champlain Avenue. No one is in custody.

By Sun-Times Wire

Business

City development agency backs housing plan for 63rd Street in Woodlawn

The plan would mix subsidized and market-rate homes on a commercial street plagued by vacant lots.

By David Roeder

Crime

Chicago police officer responding to burglary call in Woodlawn is wounded in knife attack

The officer was at a home where a break-in was reported in the 6100 block of South Vernon Avenue. He suffered minor cuts and was hospitalized in good condition.

By Sun-Times Wire

A digital rendering shows the planned exterior for a new library branch in the Back of the Yards neighborhood at 4630 S. Ashland Ave. The new location is a part of a mixed-use building with commercial and residential spaces.

City Hall

Three new libraries headed to the South and West sides

The libraries in Back of the Yards, Humboldt Park and Woodlawn “will provide crucial resources and support to our residents,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.

By Kaitlin Washburn

Crime

Chicago weekend violence: Two people killed, 18 others wounded, including 3-year-old boy, 6-year-old girl

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.

By Sun-Times Wire

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Crime

2 kids wounded in separate shootings at South Side homes

The first on Saturday left a 3-year-old boy wounded at a home in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. Hours later a a 6-year-old girl and a 33-year-old man were shot at a home in Woodlawn.

By Sun-Times Wire

Top row: 5th Ward candidates Tina Hone (left) and Desmon Yancy. Bottom row: 4th Ward candidates Prentice Butler (left) and Lamont Robinson.

Elections

South Side 4th, 5th Ward City Council candidates focus on public safety, development

A state lawmaker and the outgoing incumbent’s chief of staff are vying for the open seat in the 4th Ward. And just to the south, a lawyer is competing against a religious charity director in the 5th Ward.

By Mary Norkol

A vacant lot at Lake Street and Kedzie Avenue.

City Hall

Brewpub, day care — along with new housing — among proposals to transform vacant lots on West, South sides

The city is seeking input until the end of February on the potential transit-oriented developments in East Garfield Park and Woodlawn near the CTA’s Green Line.

By Michael Loria

A Chicago police officer tries to move Andre Smith on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, as he and Luis Cardona stand in the street and try to stop a Chicago Transit Authority bus from dropping asylum seekers off at the former James Wadsworth Elementary School at 6420 S. University Ave., which was converted into a temporary shelter for newly arrived immigrants,

Immigration

Police issue citations as activists attempt to enter shuttered Woodlawn school housing newly arrived immigrants

The city’s plans to transform the shuttered James Wadsworth Elementary School into a temporary shelter for migrants seeking asylum has been met with controversy in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood.

By Elvia Malagón

A Chicago police officer talks to Luis Cardona (left) and Andre Smith Thursday as they stand in the street and try to stop a Chicago Transit Authority bus from dropping asylum seekers off at the former James Wadsworth Elementary School at 6420 S. University Ave., which was converted into a temporary shelter for newly arrived immigrants.

Immigration

City opens temporary shelter for asylum seekers in Woodlawn despite effort to block bus moving them

At least 3 busloads of recently arrived immigrants were dropped off at a once-shuttered South Side school that has been transformed into a shelter. Two protesters tried to stop a bus from reaching the former Wadsworth Elementary School.

By Elvia Malagón

Volunteers Tasha (from left), Aaliya and Brailyn prepare tomato seed starters during a day of giving event by the Obama Foundation and the Honeycomb Project in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Southside YMCA on Monday.

Chicago

Obama Foundation volunteerism on MLK Day makes comeback after COVID hiatus

Music pumped through the South Side YMCA gym as members of the community got to work preparing meals, making birthday cards for seniors, planting seeds and packaging self-care kits for people in need.

By Jon Seidel

Dozens of community members attend a meeting Thursday night at Apostolic Church of God over the city’s plan to temporarily house new asylum seekers at the former Wadsworth Elementary School building in the Woodlawn neighborhood.

Chicago

Woodlawn residents share deep frustrations as city outlines plans to open temporary shelter for asylum seekers in shuttered school

Plans to repurpose the former James Wadsworth Elementary School in Woodlawn into a temporary shelter for asylum seekers has been met with controversy. City officials delayed opening the site to allow for more community feedback.

By Elvia Malagón

The limestone revetments at Promontory Point in Hyde Park.

News

Chicago Landmarks Commission to consider landmark status for Promontory Point

Making Promontory Point a city landmark would effectively protect the lakefront site from development or demolition.

By Ilana Arougheti

The vacant James Wadsworth Elementary School, located at 6420 S. University Ave., in the Woodlawn neighborhood, was expected to be repurposed into a temporary shelter for asylum seekers.

Immigration

City delays opening of South Side shelter for asylum seekers amid community concerns, according to alderperson

On Friday afternoon, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office released a statement saying that a firm date had not been set on when the shelter would open at the former James Wadsworth Elementary School in Woodlawn.

By Elvia Malagón