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After about seven hours of debate, Chicago alders didn’t vote on a revised proposal that would give the police superintendent and city’s top community safety leader…
Outside of a vacant lot blocks away from the upcoming Obama Presidential Center, Chicago organizers met in opposition to a luxury hotel that has been proposed…
Just three months into a contract with Roseland Community Hospital, the interim director of revenue says she was abruptly removed from her position for what she…
More than a year after Esporta Fitness abruptly shut its doors in Morgan Park, a new gym is expected to take its place later this year.…
Nearly two weeks after a private meeting between city officials, the property owner and residents about the unlivable conditions of the building at 6952-58 S. Paxton…
Lawndale Christian Legal Center (LCLC), a community-based legal nonprofit, is celebrating the grand opening of its new community justice center in North Lawndale. The new $22.5…
Chicago residents can now apply to join the city’s Reparations Task Force, which will be tasked with developing the city’s first comprehensive reparations study. Although Mayor Brandon…
South Side resident Edward Harris says he remembers when 75th Street in Greater Grand Crossing was an epicenter for Black-owned commerce. “This was like a renaissance community…
In 1997, when Jacqueline Gamble was 13 years old, she was shot multiple times. As a gun violence survivor, the Roseland native has been voluntarily helping…
This week, a Chicago alderperson introduced a new proposal that, if approved, would give Chicago police the power to declare curfews ahead of mass gatherings of…