The Latest Breaking News from South Side

Gregory Thomas was removed this week. Ald. Roderick Sawyer said, “We are concerned for a president who has done such spectacular work for our community college ... to be so unceremoniously fired.”

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police officers shot and killed a man early Thursday after an overnight standoff that began after reports that he had fired shots inside an apartment building on the city's South Side, according to city and state officials.

The Friend Family Woodlawn Health Center will open this summer.

He was hospitalized at Northwestern Hospital and his condition is currently unknown, police said.

The long-vacant, two-story former Lake Meadows professional building at 31st Street and Rhodes Avenue — a dormant but architecturally significant modernist South Side office building — is getting a major fix-up.

He grew up on the South Side, won renown after switching from rock music and also performed with Sting, Paul Simon and Ricky Skaggs.

The 14-year-old boy was killed and the 13-year-old boy wounded in Bronzeville on the South Side.

The 29-year-old was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The southbound driver went through a light at 87th and South Chicago Avenue in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the South Side on Wednesday.

The attack happened around 3 a.m. in the 9400 block of South Harvard Avenue, police said.

Officers raided a 'business unit' in Glasgow's South Side on Monday and found eight pallets containing 'illicit cigarettes' thought to be worth £795,000 in lost duty.