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James Yoo, 56, is presumed dead as a result of the explosion of the duplex at 844 N. Burlington Street, in the Bluemont neighborhood, Arlington County police confirmed during a news conference this afternoon.

Community members in an Arlington neighborhood were told to shelter in place Monday night after police say rounds were fired from a flare gun and a firearm inside of a home before it exploded. 

Frederick Douglass Academy High School's low enrollment numbers are a microcosm of the West Side's history of disinvestment over the years, neighbors said.

Graffiti resembling a swastika was found Monday at Key Elementary School, according to the school's principal. A staff member noticed the swastika-like drawing inside a bathroom stall in the second-grade trailer, Principal Marleny Perdomo said in an email to families last night, shared with ARLnow. She said the drawing "is not an accurate depiction of

"We do not want every interaction with our youth to be a negative interaction. We want to build that gap, let JPS know we’re here to support them,” said interim police Chief Joseph Wade.

The new school year for JPS starts Aug. 7.

A Sun-Times and WBEZ analysis shows the 2013 school closures “didnt do anything to fix all the structural inequalities that are leading to lower outcomes in the first place.”

In 2013, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the buildings left after shuttering 50 schools would be reborn as community assets. Ten years later, we wondered, "Were they?" To find out, we walked the grounds, talked to neighbors and dug into documents. Heres what we learned.

Many parents of children at Key Elementary School are outraged at the way a possible threat of gun violence by a student was handled by administrators.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and top officials of the Chicago Police Department and Chicago Fire Department gathered with dozens of others Wednesday morning for the ribbon cutting for a new $170 million joint-training facility in West Garfield Park.