The Latest Breaking News from Humboldt Park

Breakthrough Urban Ministries and Live Grit Soars focus on bringing the sport of triathlon to West Side kids who can’t access it. The triathletes will be racing this Saturday in the Kids Tri Chicago.

Dozens of kids from an independent immigrant shelter and others in transitional housing trained with coaches from the German professional soccer team as a way of fostering community.

Chicago nonprofit Humble Designs fully furnished and customized the four-bedroom house within hours.

Two boys, 16 and 17, are charged with stealing a car Sept. 10 in the 3300 block of West North Avenue.

The officers were in the 4200 block of West North Avenue when someone in a white jeep began shooting at them, according to officials. No one was hit.

We love music and are not against music festivals, but they should never have been put in Douglass Park.

CHICAGO — With a community-led movement to evict big-ticket music festivals from Douglass Park gaining steam, Riot Fest management has let go its event organizer and apologized to the community for his “tone” at a neighborhood meeting last week that only seemed to exacerbate the festival’s fraught relationship with residents.

Billed as the largest Hispanic culture festival in the Midwest, the event returns for its eighth year with music, food, dance and art from Colombia and other Latin American countries.

It was unclear whether the shots were fired directly at officers, police said.