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Dennis Cahill, guitar great, master of Irish traditional music, dead at 68

He grew up on the South Side, won renown after switching from rock music and also performed with Sting, Paul Simon and Ricky Skaggs.

Chicago Sun-Times

14-year-old boy among 4 killed by gunfire in Chicago Thursday, 13-year-old boy among 12 others wounded

The 14-year-old boy was killed and the 13-year-old boy wounded in Bronzeville on the South Side.

Chicago Sun-Times

Man fatally shot on South Side

The 29-year-old was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

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2 Chicago police officers hurt after driver blows red light, crashes into squad car

The southbound driver went through a light at 87th and South Chicago Avenue in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the South Side on Wednesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Three people wounded when gunman opens fire outside South Side home, shooting at least 45 rounds

The attack happened around 3 a.m. in the 9400 block of South Harvard Avenue, police said.

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Glasgow customs raid seizes 2million fake cigarettes worth £795,000

Officers raided a 'business unit' in Glasgow's South Side on Monday and found eight pallets containing 'illicit cigarettes' thought to be worth £795,000 in lost duty.

Glasgow Live

Delia Ramirez tops Gilbert Villegas for Congress; Jesse Jackson’s son on way to clinching nomination; Rep. Danny Davis in tight fight to keep his seat

Jonathan Jackson, son of civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson, opened a lead in a packed Democratic primary fight Tuesday night to grab the nomination to succeed U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush.

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Fox News analyst mourns younger brother’s murder on South Side. ‘Living in Chicago should not come with a death sentence.’

“My family is shattered right now,” Gianno Caldwell told Fox 32 Chicago. “The fact that this continues to happen in this city — one in which I grew up and which I love — is utterly disappointing and disgusting.”

Chicago Sun-Times

New high school on Near South Side would be good investment of taxpayer money

The area recently made history by gaining its first Asian American City Council member, and this same area should make history by being allowed to have its own high school.

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Abortion profoundly shaped the lives and work of these 8 Illinois women. Here are their stories.

CHICAGO — In summer 1966, 17-year-old Leta Dally and her mother were driven by a stranger to an undisclosed location on Chicago’s South Side, where the recent high school graduate had an illegal abortion.

Chicago Tribune

Get buy-in before moving ahead with $120 million new school for Near South Side

The School Board was slated to vote on the proposal, but it was pulled at the last minute. Even some supporters agreed with the need to build consensus and listen to the concerns of the broader school community.

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South Side alderpersons condemn Gresham Aldi closure: ‘You have to do right by all of Chicago’

“If you would rather pay for an empty store and an abandoned store for the next five years than invest in our community, you don’t deserve to be here,” Ald. Stephanie Coleman said. “And quite frankly, we don’t want you here.”

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Tony La Russa responds to unsolicited advice from White Sox fans: ‘I didn’t think they liked walks’

CHICAGO — With runners on second and third and two outs in the top of the 11th inning of Tuesday night’s marathon on the South Side, the few thousand fans remaining began shouting unsolicited advice to Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa.

Chicago Tribune

Therapy dogs brighten up South side children’s hospital with weekly visits

Meet Zilly and Ella, the newest “dog-tors” at La Rabida Children’s Hospital. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office has partnered with the hospital to bring the two therapy dogs to the Outpatient Center each week.

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James Meeks retiring as pastor of Salem Baptist Church

Meeks will step down next year as head of the South Side megachurch he founded 38 years ago.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago as a poem: The birthplace of slam poetry finally gets a contemporary anthology of poetry

CHICAGO — Some days the hardest thing in the world is explaining Chicago to someone not from Chicago. Other days, particularly when you already live here, the hardest thing is seeing the city clearly, as vast and varied, as larger than your block, your neighborhood or your ward. Hence, the…

Glasgow Live

Road closures in Glasgow for Ed Sheeran stadium gig at Hampden Park

Thousands of fans from across the city and beyond will be descending on the south side and many will be heading to Hampden by car to see Ed Sheeran take to the stage.

Chicago Sun-Times

South Side rapper among 4 killed, 6 others wounded in shootings across Chicago Friday

Tristian Hamilton, a 31-year-old rapper who performed under the name FBG Cash, had been driving around about 5:30 a.m., with the woman asleep in the car, when a Cadillac cut him off in the 1600 block of West 81st Street and two people got out and began shooting, according to…

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Rapper FBG Cash killed, woman seriously wounded when gunman with rifle opens fire on South Side

The 31-year-old, whose real name was Tristian Hamilton, was part of a group of rappers known as the “Fly Boy Gang.” Two years ago, another member of the group, FBG Duck, was killed in broad daylight on the Gold Coast.

Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: A.J. Pierzynski as the next Chicago White Sox manager? He definitely would listen.

The next Chicago White Sox manager was talking with fans Thursday on a beautiful afternoon on the South Side.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow south side's best beer gardens near Hampden to enjoy before summer shows

The likes of Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris and Liam Gallagher are all coming to Hampden in the coming weeks - here's where you might want to stop off on your way there.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow South Side roads set for 'permanent' repairs as part of £25m project

The work will target a number of roads with identified problems, although a local councillor pointed out there were many more int he area in need of improvements.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago police officer shot in Englewood neighborhood — second cop hit in less than a week

CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer was shot and seriously wounded Sunday afternoon during a brief gunbattle in the Englewood neighborhood on the city’s South Side.

Chicago Sun-Times

Field of 21 Democrats and Republicans running to succeed Bobby Rush in First Congressional District

Nearly two-dozen candidates are running in the First Congressional District, which stretches from Chicago’s South Side nearly to Kankakee. “It really is important that you have somebody that speaks truth to power,” said political consultant Delmarie Cobb, who ran Rush’s first campaign in the…

The Independent UK

Chicago officer critically hurt when shots fired into car

A Chicago police officer has been hospitalized in critical condition after she was shot on the city’s South Side

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