West Garfield Park
Nearly 4,900 robberies happened between July 1 and Nov. 26, a more than 55% increase compared to the previous five months. That’s the largest percentage increase in robberies between consecutive five-month periods since at least 2001.
The Central Market’s opening marked completion of the eight-year, $400 million Midway Modernization Program, which expanded security checkpoints and upgraded parking garages and concessions.
The man, 42, was standing outside in the 300 block of South Pulaski Road when someone in a dark car drove by and an occupant began shooting.
Neighborhood disinvestment and violence usually go hand in hand. That’s the case in West Garfield Park, a neighborhood with the city’s worst violence, as the Sun-Times’ Andy Grimm reported.
The Garfield Park Grocery Store Pop-Up opened Monday and will run until Dec. 21. The storefront will ensure residents have access to groceries while a nearby Save A Lot closes for renovations.
The Sun-Times spent months talking to residents who call West Garfield Park home. We share stories from nine of them.
Two men were arrested on suspicion of burglary after officers found their pickup truck had crashed through a retail clothing store late Tuesday.
“I don’t see nothing there for the West Side. It makes me sick to my stomach,” Ald. Emma Mitts told Water Commissioner Andrea Cheng.
Two men were killed and two others wounded in a shooting Sunday. A 7-year-old boy suffered a graze wound to the head and was hospitalized in fair condition.
Patricia Berrios dijo que la muerte de su hermana es aún más dura porque su madre murió dos meses antes.
Berrios, who conducted sermons online, reaching a global audience, was honored by friends and others “for the hero she is.”
As James Coles left his mother’s Morgan Park home to see a friend, Jacqueline Coles grabbed him by the wrist and told him to be careful. Hours later, she stood outside Christ Medical Center as doctors tried in vain to save him.
Damario Ferguson was one of seven young people shot over the Labor Day weekend.
The man crashed into another car in the 3800 block of West Madison Street. A man inside the other car then shot him multiple times, police said.
A 3,000-square feet addition to the satellite campus will be called the Community Center for Teaching and Learning. Besides boosting student capacity by 50% to 2,000, the community center will also serve as an events space.
The man, 18, was inside a car just before 10 p.m. when someone fired shots, striking him in the head, cheek and abdomen.
The $15 million, 27,000-square-foot Rusu-McCartin Boys & Girls Club is the first new club from the organization in two decades.
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