HERALD STAFF REPORT Two suspects robbed a 53-year-old woman at gunpoint at 2:15 a.m. on Tuesday as she walked at 5016 S. Drexel Blvd. in Kenwood, police confirmed. She dropped her belongings and ran from them. No one is in custody, but Chicago Police detectives are investigating.
By AARON GETTINGER Staff writer A young man was shot today after he had barricaded himself into an apartment at 1327 E. 61st St. A police spokesman confirmed that the victim was shot following a barricade situation after 3rd District and University of Chicago police, including a SWAT team and a mobile command center, responded […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff writer DALEY CENTER — Ald. Leslie Hairston was sworn in for another term as alderman for the 5th on Monday, following Judge LaGuina Clay-Herron’s rejection last Friday of William Calloway’s bid for a restraining order to prevent Hairston from taking her seat on the City Council. The judge also said on […]
To the Editor: Many of us in Hyde Park do not welcome Trader Joe’s. No one I know is happy about it. Trader Joe’s is a store that caters to the affluent, and we already have one of those up on 51st Street. What we need is a regular grocery store for the rest […]
To the Editor: As a supporter of Leslie A. Hairston for 5th Ward Alderman, I volunteered every day in the Discovery Recount phases of the 5th Ward vote. This included the recount of 10 precincts, including absentee ballots, voter applications, and provisional ballots within the ward and at the supersite in downtown Chicago. To […]
To the Editor: With the election of the first African-American female Mayor of Chicago there have been multiple letters to the editor, blogs, and Facebook posts implying that park leadership was mismanaging the parks and needed to be dealt with. Because several of these statements were untrue or misleading, either intentionally or by mistake […]
To the Editor: I was 11 when I moved from Michigan to Jackson Towers on 56th and Everett, across the street from Jackson Park. Everyone was expressing pleasure with the newly constructed parkway through the park using 57th Street and Cornell Drive, that allowed the closing of a lane of the southbound drive that […]
HERALD STAFF REPORT A local teen was rescued by local residents in Hyde Park from an attempted kidnapping on Monday, May 20, on the 800 Block of East 54th Street. According to a community alert by the Chicago Police Department (CPD), on Monday morning a 15-year-old teen was heading to her residence when an unknown […]
By SAMANTHA SMYLIE Staff writer Centers for New Horizons, Inc., is a nonprofit organization based in Bronzeville that has offered services to residents throughout the Chicagoland area for the last 48 years. The organization offers residents early education support, a range of programming for elementary and high school students, comprehensive workforce development for job seekers […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff writer At a Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy meeting for Beat 222, which covers most of Kenwood, police representatives announced a Faith and Action event on Friday, May 24, at the Rain or Shine Baptist Church and solicited volunteers to coach basketball at the 2nd District’s Friday night open court. Officer Denise […]