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After months of contentious debate, a migrant encampment on Chicago's South Side is becoming a reality.

A recent report on the distribution of pollution and industry across Chicago could be a first step to addressing decades of discriminatory planning, zoning and land-use policies in Chicago. But, some residents on the South and West sides say their communities have been overlooked yet again. Coined a cumulative impact assessment and released by the Johnson administration in September, the ...

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A person was arrested after allegedly shooting a man he was fighting with Wednesday morning in the West Pullman neighborhood.

Chicago's Black arts community showcased its creativity in October. Black Fine Arts Month (BFAM) 2023 left an indelible mark on its attendees. The signature

It had been sixty years since Mommy Mae left Tchula, Mississippi for Chicago, and she still believed that education was a salve for the systemically bruised. I wasn’t as sure, but journeyed to Iowa City on the fuel of her faith.

Following months of delays, an electronic lift has been installed at a 91-year-old West Pullman resident's home after she had gone nearly a year without the...

More than 15,000 homeowners received assistance from the Illinois Homeowner Assistance Fund, run by the state’s housing authority and financed through the federal American Rescue Plan Act.

Byron Brooks, 57, had been at his job in sales for 15 years, often working six to seven days a week clocking more than 100 hours per week before the COVID-19 pandemic. Flush with overtime pay, Brooks said he was able to purchase his first home in the West Pullman neighborhood in 2018. But when the pandemic hit, his overtime work stopped, cutting his average yearly earnings down from around ...

A man was fatally shot in West Pullman Wednesday afternoon.