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What are reparations? A group in Chicago is pushing for all descendants of slaves in the city to have their property taxes waived.

A new Amazon fulfillment warehouse is opening soon on Chicago's West Side, with hiring efforts creating job opportunities for the local community.

A group of residents have been raising concerns about jobs, zoning and environmental issues around an Amazon warehouse that’s set to open in West Humboldt Park.

John Litsiardakis died last just a mile from where he grew up in the city’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, his apparent suicide coming hours after the 67-year-old, armed with at least one gun, took to the roof of a building on Chicago Avenue.

Neighbors of a man involved in a standoff with Chicago police Friday after he was seen brandishing a gun from the roof of a Humboldt Park building said they have been trying to bring attention to the situation for more than a year.

A man was found dead inside an abandoned warehouse in West Humboldt Park after an hours long standoff with a police SWAT team, Chicago police said.

The man, who apparently took his own life inside the building in the 4100 block of West Chicago Avenue had been the subject of more than 40 calls for service since January 2022, a police department source told the Sun-Times.

A SWAT team was still on the scene in West Humboldt Park Friday evening after reports of a man armed with what appeared to be a flamethrower on top of a roof prompted a standoff since approximately 9 a.m.

Community members shared safety concerns as authorities reported that they were addressing the displayed swastika.