Apr 2, 2013
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Police issued a community alert this afternoon warning about an armed man who has been robbing small retail stores at night in the city's Chicago Lawn District.
Police said the man displays a handgun and demands money from the register and safe.
One...
Mar 20, 2013
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If you had to buy some bittermelon, kvass, lutefisk or achiote for dinner tonight, would you know where to go?
If you can't think of which ethnic grocery stores you'd have to hit for those ingredients right off the top of your head, you're not alone....
Mar 1, 2013
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The 15 employees of the Southwest Organizing Project, a nonprofit community group on Chicago's Southwest Side, are housed in a small, shared office space when they aren't out in the community.
They are out a lot in the neighborhoods, ones particularly...
Mar 3, 2013
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Police are warning businesses in the Southwest Side’s Chicago Lawn District about a man who’s been robbing small retail stores in recent weeks.
The latest robbery took place about 6:50 p.m. Friday in the 4000 block of West 55th Street,...
Feb 24, 2013
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Two people suffered minor injuries and police arrested 19 teenagers during a disturbance involving crowds of young people Saturday at Ford City Mall on the Southwest Side, authorities said.
About 4:45 p.m., a large group of disruptive teens ran...
Feb 8, 2013
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Spurred by the shooting of an off-duty police officer, a three-month joint investigation of a street gang faction ended this week with eight arrests in Summit and Chicago, along with the confiscation of guns, drugs -- and an alligator.
After an arrest...
Jan 29, 2013
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At least eight people were shot across Chicago overnight, including two men wounded just outside a West Side gas station where a clerk was slain last summer, authorities said.
The men, 31 and 34, were sitting in a car in front of the gas station in the...
Jan 26, 2013
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Bail was set at $150,000 today on weapons-related charges for a Brighton Park man already on parole in an attempted murder case after beat officers saw him firing a gun near his home this week.
Edgar Jasso, 29, faces charges of unlawful use of a weapon...
Jan 3, 2013
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A 20-year-old man was charged with shooting two people in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on New Year’s Day.
Robert Terrell, of the 2500 block of West 61st Street, appeared in court Thursday on aggravated battery and attempted murder charges.
He&...
Jan 18, 2013
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At least twice recently men have been robbed in the early morning hours after stopping to talk with a woman or a group of women outside neighborhood bars on the Near North Side, police said today in a community alert. A later alert described two...
Jan 10, 2013
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A brother and sister and a second man have been charged in connection with the robbery of a store and the shooting of the owner’s brother when he tried to chase them on the Southwest Side last month.
Jose Guerra, 19, his sister, Gabriela...
Jan 5, 2013
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A West Englewood man has been charged with multiple armed robberies on the Southwest Side over the holidays, according to charges announced in Cook County Bond Court today.
Rondale Jett, 42, of the 2000 block of 69th Street, was charged late Friday with...
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