Woodlawn
Dorri McWhorter says the YMCA has forgotten the reason they do what they do. She plans to partner with community organizations to bring that message back.
The South Side Connectivity Collaborative will place 11 Comcast “Lift Zones” around the South Side to provide “high capacity” internet access in four neighborhoods within the next two months.
Teams of architects from all over the world have worked with neighborhood residents to transform vacant lots into thriving community spaces.
Raymond Dimonte was last seen Sunday swimming from a boat in Lake Michigan near the 63rd Street Harbor.
Southside Blooms will open their first stand-alone flower shop in Englewood on Thursday, offering jobs for at-risk youth who help grow the flowers on city-owned lots in several West Side and South Side neighborhoods.
Founder Jennifer Maddox expects to move into a former Walgreens store before children go back to school after receiving a $1 million donation.
The teen boy was grazed in the neck about 6:45 p.m. in the 6500 block of South Champlain Avenue.
Related Midwest, the real estate and development firm that owns the sprawling property in Woodlawn, confirmed Thursday it was off the market.
The sprawling subsidized housing complex was put up for sale in April by Related Midwest.
Former first lady Michelle Obama lived in Parkway Gardens before it was turned into 694 units of affordable housing with federally subsidized rents.
The man stood outside and kept asking to be let inside before he fired shots through the door, police said.
The city provided a list of 35, not 50, vacant lots in the program; just two of those lots have been fully beautified, with mulch, fencing and raised planting beds.
The fire was reported before 10:25 p.m. at a vacant apartment building in the 6400 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley House in West Woodlawn became an official Chicago landmark after an expedited City Council vote Wednesday. It culminates years-long efforts to landmark the home of the teen whose 1955 lynching sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
The pair were sitting in a vehicle about in the 6100 block of South St. Lawrence when three people approached on foot and began shooting,
The grants, which go to 81 community organizations, result from the law legalizing adult-use marijuana in Illinois. It requires 25% of pot tax revenues help communities suffering from economic disinvestment, violence, and the multilayered harm of disparate weed enforcement.
Police cancelled a missing person alert about 12:40 p.m. Saturday.
He was shot in the shoulder in the 6600 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue, Chicago police said. He took himself to St. Bernard Hospital in good condition.
The 27-year-old was found shot to death in the 6100 block of South Rhodes Avenue, police said.
The protections fall short of what many in Woodlawn had sought. “The community did not want to walk away with nothing, because we weren’t moving when it came to the ordinance,” said local Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th). “They wanted me to sign onto it. So, I did.”
The Commission on Chicago Landmarks granted preliminary landmark status Thursday to the home of Emmett Till, at 6427 S. St. Lawrence Ave. in Woodlawn.
No one was injured and a cat was rescued from the fire, fire officials said.
The 15-year-old was shot in the back about 8:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of East 63rd Street, Chicago police said.
A 39-year-old was killed in the 6100 block of South Evans Avenue, police say.
After the 46-year-old failed to return to a party, the Chicago police Marine Unit found him in the water near a pier in the 6400 block of South Promontory Drive.
John Shorter, a lieutenant with the Chicago Fire Department, said his son is now able to get around, using a walker.
A three-judge appellate panel affirmed the U.S. District Court ruling, but said they couldn’t rule on some matters it considered to be under state, not federal, jurisdiction.
Surveillance video released by the CPD shows five males walking out of a gangway across the street. At least three of them can be seen firing toward the basketball court in the park before running off.
The shooting happened about 8:10 p.m. Aug. 14 at Mamie Till-Mobley Park in the 6400 block of South Ellis Avenue, Chicago police said.