Bring Chicago Home: What voters need to know about the referendum: Bring Chicago Home, which would raise the city’s real estate transfer tax for property sales ...
chicagotribune.com/2024/03/18/what-you-need-to-know-about-bring-chicago-home/
Fillmore Center project, touted as jobs engine for struggling North Lawndale, clears city commission
chicagotribune.com/2024/03/05/fillmore-center-north-lawndale/
City and state quickly moves thousands of migrants from shelters into homes across the South and West sides. But will they stay?
chicagotribune.com/2024/03/01/city-and-state-quickly-moves-thousands-of-migrants-from-shelters-into-homes-across-the-south-and-west-sides-but-will-they-stay/
Illinois House endorsements in 4th, 5th, 6th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th: These are the Tribune endorsements in the Democratic primary for the 4th, 5th, 6th, 21st ...
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Despite legal limbo, Bring Chicago Home’s champions, foes continue messaging battle in final weeks before March primary
chicagotribune.com/2024/03/04/legal-limbo-bring-chicago-home-message-battle/
SheRo Program from social services agency UCAN Chicago helps heal women most at risk for violence
chicagotribune.com/2024/02/16/ucan-shero-program-for-women/
Editorial: Tribune endorsements for US Congress in 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th districts: Chicago Tribune editorial board endorses Montelle L. Gaji, Raymond Lopez ...
chicagotribune.com/2024/02/22/editorial-tribune-endorsements-for-u-s-congress-in-1st-4th-6th-7th-districts/
Editorial: Business community’s massive new violence-prevention commitment puts millions toward a safer Chicago
chicagotribune.com/2024/02/05/ct-editorial-arne-duncan-violent-crime-business-community/
Foundations, business interests raise $66 million to fight crime in Chicago: Officials said Thursday that $66 million has been raised toward a goal of $100 ...
chicagotribune.com/2024/02/01/foundations-business-interests-raise-66-million-to-fight-crime-in-chicago/
Out of work and running out of time, migrants struggle to find jobs in Chicago: Thousands of migrants who have arrived in Chicago are shut out of an initiative ...
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Later this week, Chicago becomes the puppet capital of the world for the International Puppet Theater Festival
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Willie Wilson: Black elected leaders have an obligation to fulfill the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream
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Leadership turnover, officer deaths, robbery spike challenged CPD in 2023: Chicago's homicide and nonfatal shooting totals fell again in 2023 ...
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Vaughn Bryant and Arne Duncan: Violence prevention work is reducing shootings in Chicago. Let’s scale it
chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-scaling-gun-violence-prevention-chicago-20231217-24opw5npdbavxjtoouewym6iay-story.html
Snowflakes, candy canes and 36,000 LED lights: The making of the CTA holiday fleet
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Riot Fest announces dates and presale for 2024 festival: According to the pre-sale website, Riot Fest will once again be in Douglass Park in the North Lawndale ...
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Man’s body found in rubble, his mother critically injured, in fire overnight in North Lawndale neighborhood, officials say
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Grateful for a new home: Community members embrace migrants as many find meaning in their first Thanksgiving celebration in Chicago
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Amazon Drivers Endure Carjacking in Chicago, Harassment in Houston: An Amazon driver was carjacked at gunpoint in Chicago, while another driver says she was ...
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Culver’s opens first West Side location on grounds of new police and fire training facility
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Have a neighbour over: The holiday season finds us divided and isolated. This modest gesture might help this Christmas.
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Police: 15 people shot, 2 critically injured, after mass shooting in North Lawndale; suspect in custody
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Commentary: The holiday season finds us divided and isolated. This modest gesture might help
latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-12-03/christmas-hanukkah-holiday-season-neighbor-isolation-division/
Man charged with 15 counts of attempted first-degree murder in Chicago Halloween party shooting
cnn.com/2023/10/31/us/chicago-mass-shooting-halloween-suspect-charged/
Man charged in North Lawndale shooting that wounded 15, including 2 critically: Law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced dozens of criminal charges against ...
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Walt Disney’s childhood home opens doors for first public tours: According to Walt Disney Birthplace, Chicago attempted to designate the property as a historical ...
bostonherald.com/2023/10/19/walt-disneys-childhood-home-in-chicago-opens-doors-for-first-public-tours/
Editorial: A problematic plea deal cries out for an explanation from Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx
chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-kim-foxx-plea-deal-fontaine-sanders-20231011-2agogsjbljambedtmlhg6lwnha-story.html
City inspector general’s office defends police transparency concerns at public safety hearing
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By covering them in photographs, guerrilla artist Kelly Kristin Jones isn’t trying to erase monuments — at least not for long
chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-kelly-kristin-jones-chicago-monuments-20230920-jwnd2mx7dzf4rckj5aar6twjwa-story.html
Riot Fest 2023: Day 1 kicks off with mosh pits, funk and the Foo Fighters: Music fans descended on North Lawndale’s Douglass Park as Riot Fest kicked off Friday ...
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Jemia Cunningham-Elder: Chicago charter schools are doing great things. They deserve to be funded equitably.
chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-chicago-charter-schools-cps-equitable-funding-20230910-pu3vuchxnba33k3cwarzfid7cy-story.html
14-year-old among 7 killed, 33 wounded in Chicago weekend gun violence: "We can't even go to the park," a survivor of one of the shootings said.
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1 woman killed, 8 others injured in West Side Chicago mass shooting, police say: A 21-year-old woman was killed and eight other women were injured when gunfire ...
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Editorial: For those working so hard to turn the tide on gun violence, we offer our gratitude
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‘I wish I could say it was something new:’ Police, activists step in to assist in city’s latest mass shooting in North Lawndale
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1 woman dead, 8 other women injured in North Lawndale shooting: One woman is dead and eight more were injured in a mass shooting Sunday morning in North Lawndale ...
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These tour guides are fighting segregation in Chicago. Here’s how you can too.: TikTok star Shermann "Dilla" Thomas and Tonika Johnson use bus tours to shine a ...
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Quick Glance: Guides Fighting Segregation in Chicago
- TikTok star Shermann 'Dilla' Thomas and Tonika Johnson utilize bus tours to spotlight the history of neglected neighborhoods.
- The tours attract tourists and community members, but their most devoted patrons are white suburbanites.
- Shermann 'Dilla' Thomas is also a founding member of the Englewood Arts Collective and the Resident Association of Greater Englewood, aiming to reshape the narrative of South Side communities and mobilize individuals and resources for positive transformations.
- Johnson remarks that at times, the tour is sufficient.
Jorge Matos: Intervention programs have created ways for Chicagoans to heal from violence
chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-community-violence-intervention-chicago-gun-violence-20230723-52fzuxc6znh47p3gfu7sogo3lm-story.html
Costly Deep Tunnel flooding project can’t handle Chicago area’s severe storms fueled by climate change
chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-rain-deep-tunnel-overwhelmed-20230716-argrp2ruafadbhu4jrov5iplt4-story.html
Four injured, one killed after midnight in North Lawndale shooting: No one is in custody and police are investigating.
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Costly Deep Tunnel flooding project can’t handle Chicago area’s severe storms fueled by climate change
chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-rain-deep-tunnel-overwhelmed-20230716-argrp2ruafadbhu4jrov5iplt4-story.html
Chicago under pressure to move migrants out of police stations: Activists say new allegations highlight the urgency for Johnson's administration to find ...
axios.com/local/chicago/2023/07/12/chicago-migrants-police-stations
Divvy bikes hit the streets of Chicago 10 years ago. The decade has been filled with changes and challenges.
chicagotribune.com/business/transportation/ct-biz-divvy-10-years-chicago-20230630-qk7q5dwncbhjvnuqn7kacqe4vq-story.html
Jason Little: A shooting upended my life. Now I help young Chicagoans build futures beyond gun violence.
chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-chicago-gun-violence-prevention-outreach-20230716-ginfcq37qvdyxj4scwvxnmqxae-story.html
LeClaire Courts’ long-delayed reconstruction may finally get started as CHA board gives the go-ahead
chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-leclaire-courts-20230718-syyoj6po25hezplshqwhwzyhd4-story.html
26 Black-owned restaurants in Chicagoland, perfect for marking Juneteenth: Celebrate Juneteenth at a Black-owned restaurants in Chicago and the suburbs ...
chicagotribune.com/dining/ct-food-juneteenth-black-owned-restaurants-20230618-icsjfed265aptcyvoohfkswgve-list.html
Minority-owned development firms have been in short supply in Chicago. New initiatives aim to change that.
chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-minority-business-development-20230619-hyluzf5imjatnogtq7pves7ca4-story.html
Editorial: Curbing violent crime is an all-hands-on-deck task. That must include corporate Chicago.
chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-civic-committee-violent-crime-brandon-johnson-20230607-by3c355oxjebfe2tbgbks2pc5m-story.html
Park District permits Riot Fest amid protester pushback against ‘mega fest’ music festivals
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Why do some parts of Chicago get hotter than others? Heat Watch program recruits volunteers to map temperatures.
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DuPage County explores cutting water contract with Chicago, building pipeline to Lake Michigan
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Developer transforming Northwest Side’s Marshall Field’s complex into Chicago’s latest film studio
chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-the-fields-studio-20230522-m7tmnmfchjbt5pp46kfrrfzcne-story.html
Martin Luther King Jr.: Q & A with ‘King: A Life’ author Jonathan Eig on the civil rights leader’s year in Chicago
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‘Horrific on all fronts:’ North Lawndale residents cry for wide-sweeping violence prevention
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Review: ‘We Are Proud to Present’ is a brave beginning for Theatre Y in North Lawndale
chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-ent-theatre-y-proud-present-review-20230426-fstjyfox5vcmxolk4vlvbb53fy-story.html
Just opened: Stephanie Izard’s Little Goat Diner move among 7 new restaurants in Chicago and the suburbs
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Chicago postal carriers continue to be robbed at gunpoint, including 12 in last month: police
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Patrick Beverley relishes the old and new in his return to Chicago. ‘Wherever I’m going, I’m going home,’ the Bulls guard says.
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Jon Gray 'antsy' for debut of Rangers' revamped rotation: GOODYEAR, Ariz. — It wasn’t all too long ago that Jon Gray was the shiny new toy in the Texas Rangers ...
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Editorial: Our choices for City Council: Robinson, Hone, Hall, Chico, Lee, Mosley, M. Scott
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Fires continue to kill people in unsafe buildings as Chicago ignores problems with its inspection system
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West Side incumbents fending off challengers in 24th and 29th ward runoffs: Despite their differences, all the candidates say crime and cleaning up the ...
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Chicago police probe suspicious death of baby girl, 4 months, on Northwest Side: Chicago police probe suspicious death of baby girl, 4 months, on Northwest Side
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Review: There’s no place like home for Soulé, bringing its Creole soul food back to North Lawndale
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The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates: Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal ...
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$5.5 million grant aims to expand tourism in 12 more underrepresented neighborhoods
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Allow us a moment of self promotion as managing editor @tehealey does a Facebook live panel at the Chicago Auto Show with @ABC7Chicago at noon Central today. Check it out.
Police officer shoots man in North Lawndale, outraging family members: The man was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to the upper body ...
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Eat. Watch. Do. — Valentine’s Day specials, ‘Magic Mike’ review, plus Philly cheesesteaks
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Column: A soul food revolution takes root in North Lawndale, at one small restaurant with big plans
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Q & A with ‘King: A Life’ author Jonathan Eig on the civil rights leader’s year in Chicago
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Quick Glance: After 50 MLK Day festivities, this 92-year-old still has work to do.
- Martin Luther King Jr. birthday event, which he had helped arrange for the past 50 years.
- Robbie was determined that these stories be told.
- "Close your eyes and imagine," suggested Robbie.
- All of this, he explained, was the reason he kept a photograph of King on his office door.
Chicago planted 18,000 trees this year with 33% going to neighborhoods with the highest need, officials say
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Chicago on track to plant 75k street trees in neighborhoods to address disparities
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Stepping away from bench and a decade of leading juvenile court, sometimes-controversial judge ‘happy to have been part of it’
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The Architect Behind New York’s Most Exciting New Building: WSJ.'s 2022 Architecture Innovator, Jeanne Gang, whose firm has envisioned a striking addition for ...
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