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As migrants move into shelters, surrounding communities respond: ‘They have value’

CHICAGO -- On a recent sunny afternoon in Chicago's Woodlawn area, more than a dozen men from Venezuela gathered in a parking lot outside a shuttered elementary school that is now a shelter for migrants, kicking a soccer ball and blaring music from cars.

Chicago Tribune · May 22, 2023

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 20, 2023

Rise of 63rd Street continues with plan for $48 million ‘Woodlawn Social’

With the Obama Presidential Center rising to the east and the redevelopment of the 63rd and Cottage Grove intersection, it seems as if a new era for the street is finally at hand.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 17, 2023

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 28, 2023

1 killed, 2 children among 17 wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago

Two children were wounded in separate shootings Saturday at homes on the South Side. A 3-year-old boy was shot in Calumet Heights and a 6-year-old girl was shot about two miles away in Woodlawn.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 23, 2023

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 23, 2023

Man found fatally shot in Woodlawn

The 39-year-old was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 6700 block of South Rhodes Avenue.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 14, 2023

As real estate giant prepares to open first office on Chicago's South Side, residents feel torn about the influx of development

CHICAGO — Since moving to Bronzeville in 2007, Vanessa Harris has seen the many vacant lots in the South Side neighborhood get scooped up by developers and turned into $800,000 townhomes, some of them right outside her window.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 9, 2023

Brewpub, daycare — 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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 16, 2023

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 11, 2023