After residents won more time and money to move out of two Paxton Avenue properties, they're expanding their demands for ...

One autumn day in 2003, rival gang members shot Johnnie “Big Cat” Williams to death on a contested street corner in the Maquis Park section of Chicago’s South Side. (The names are fictional.) ...

co-owner of Da Book Joint in the South Shore neighborhood. A dynamic mother-daughter duo works together to bring the joy of books to Chicago's South Side and beyond.

"They were land-hungry, middle-class immigrants who saw that in South Shore they could buy a house for $22,000 near the University of Chicago,” where both were graduate students. Over the next ...

an initiative of the Chicago Department of Housing, is expanding to a segment of the city's South Shore neighborhood. South Shore is the 11th neighborhood to have access to the program ...

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