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Urgent care center opens at Ogden Commons in North Lawndale

The express clinic is the latest in a series of Sinai Chicago outpatient facilities aimed at improving access to health care on the West Side.

Chicago Sun-Times

In North Lawndale, one of city’s most violent neighborhoods, a lot of police stops, a lot of crime, fewer arrests

The number of arrests in its West Side police district has fallen by nearly half from pre-pandemic levels, though the figure remains the highest in the city.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mobile farmers market sees skyrocketing demand due to food insecurity, rising grocery prices

Fresh Move employees say they’ve had to double their orders from urban farms to keep up with community needs amid high grocery prices and a lack of fresh food options on the city’s South and West sides.

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Multiple people wounded in West Side drive-by shooting

Three of the victims were hospitalized in good condition, and one is in serious condition, police said.

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Norvell Meadows, All-City guard at Orr and Prosser, fatally shot on West Side

Norvell Meadows, 19, was shot in the hip, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. He was taken to Stroger Hospital and died on Thursday night.

Chicago Sun-Times

Headed to NYC for a long weekend? Here's a guide for a whirlwind art tour

NEW YORK — A large fiberglass sculpture in the shape of a military drone hovers 25 feet above the High Line, the elevated public park on Manhattan's West Side. Although from afar it might be mistaken for the real thing, this drone is a piece by artist Sam Durant, who…

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Man shot outside Orr Academy High School on West Side

The victim, a 21-year-old man, was traveling in the backseat of vehicle in the 700 block of North Pulaski Road when someone on foot opened fire Monday, police said.

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In Southwest Side viaducts, peeling paint contains toxic levels of lead. But is it a hazard?

Three years ago, a teacher and her sixth-graders found levels hundreds of times what would be considered safe for house paint. But city health officials downplay any health threat.

Chicago Sun-Times

13 people wounded by gunfire in Chicago Thursday

A 17-year-old boy and 52-year-old man were driving their cars in the 4700 block of West Wellington Avenue just after 11:30 a.m. when both were struck by gunfire.

Chicago Sun-Times

A young Chicago progressive is challenging an established liberal for Congress in a race that reflects Democratic Party divisions

CHICAGO — On a recent Sunday afternoon, 31-year old Kina Collins strode up the front steps of tidy bungalows in the Galewood neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side to introduce herself to voters in the hopes they will make her their next representative in Congress.

Chicago Tribune

Two mass shootings hours apart on South and West sides of Chicago, 14-year-old boy among the wounded

The mass shootings occurred in Lawndale and Altgeld Gardens, and wounded a total of 8 people.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rep. Davis touts long record in 7th Congressional District, but primary rivals want new voices and vision

Though Rep. Danny K. Davis has represented the 7th Congressional District for a quarter of a century, he often votes in line with the younger, more progressive members of Congress. But challenger Kina Collins believes it’s time for a change — not just in the newly redrawn district but across…

Chicago Sun-Times

‘It’s going to save lives’: Chicago Police Department expands eligibility for drug users to get treatment instead of jail

The drug diversion program, the largest of its kind in the country, was piloted on the West Side in 2018 and expanded citywide late last year.

Chicago Sun-Times

Handful of West Side alderpersons to stand with Lightfoot as she launches reelection bid Wednesday

Black Caucus Chair Jason Ervin (28th), Emma Mitts (37th) and Chris Taliaferro (29th) will be on hand for the mayor’s announcement.

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West Side students march for peace: ‘Put down the guns’

The peace march comes just days after five people were seriously wounded in a shootout in front of the West Garfield Park elementary school.

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Bernardo Gomez, killed in attack at West Side CTA station, had plans of becoming a police officer

Gomez was a few days shy of 27 when a 14-year-old attacked him at the Cicero Green Line station, authorities said. His family described him as fiercely protective, fighting for custody of his son and planning on becoming a police officer.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago cop who shot 13-year-old carjacking suspect who was running away is relieved of police powers, officials say

CHICAGO — The officer who fired a service weapon, wounding a 13-year-old boy who was running away on the West Side Wednesday night, has been relieved of police powers.

Chicago Sun-Times

Black developers to build 3-flats in a single Woodlawn block, replacing 11 vacant lots

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle appeared at the ground-breaking to show her support, speaking candidly about how South and West Side neighborhoods have suffered from “racist disinvestment for generations” as predominantly white neighborhoods in Chicago have received the “lion share of…

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In West Side mural, a dancing garden aims to show we all should have a chance to ‘bloom’

Byron Taylor, a Chicago artist known as B’Rael Thunder, painted ‘Sowing Seeds’ at a legal aid clinic. He says all of us need a chance to become ‘a greater version of ourselves.’

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New half marathon to take the path less traveled and offer runners views of West Side

The new race, hosted by the same folks who organize the Chicago Marathon and Shamrock Shuffle, will take runners through Garfield, Humboldt and Douglass parks as well as surrounding neighborhoods.

Chicago Sun-Times

COPA releases video of 2020 shootout between suspect and officers behind West Side police station

The footage shows an officer opening the door of the car, coming face to face with Lovelle Jordan as he begins shooting.

Chicago Tribune

As cost of groceries rises, food pantries see increased demand. ‘It has just not stopped’

On a blustery afternoon on Chicago's West Side, Beverly Harris waited in line outside Harmony Community Church for her turn to select from bags of apples and cartons of eggs, romaine lettuce and puff pastries from the food pantry in the church’s basement.

Chicago Sun-Times

Gas bills hit Chicagoans hard

Peoples Gas, despite record profits, has the most customers struggling to pay their bills of any Chicago-area utility, with the South Side and West Side hit hardest.

Chicago Sun-Times

Arrests, shootings plunged among those who took part in anti-violence program, even as crime spiked in city, new study finds

U of C researchers found that those who took part in READI Chicago were two-thirds less likely to be arrested for a violent crime and nearly 20% less likely to be shot themselves than other at-risk residents of the South and West sides.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot tweaks gas card giveaway yet again to smooth road to City Council passage

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plans to reserve 75% of gas cards for residents of South and West Side neighborhoods defined as “high-mobility hardship.”

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