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Opioids have been killing the same generation of Black men in Chicago for decades

Black men born 1951-1970 always have had the greatest risk of dying of overdoses, even in their 20s, 30s and 40s. It's true in Chicago, Baltimore, Washington and other big cities, an investigation by the Sun-Times, The New York Times, The Baltimore Banner, Big Local News at Stanford University and…

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Christmas lights up Chicago — we found houses decked for the holiday season in every part of the city

Sun-Times photographers fanned out across Chicago’s South, West and North Side neighborhoods to capture their favorite displays.

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Amundsen Park won’t become migrant shelter; park programs return

Plans to turn the West Side park field house into a migrant shelter have been abandoned as the number of migrants camped out at police stations has dropped, Ald. Chris Taliaferro said.

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Dog bites hit South and West Sides hardest — same areas that lack dog parks, pet shops, other resources

While dog bites since 2019 have taken place all across the city, the communities with the highest number of complaints are largely on the West Side of the city where there are fewer resources for dogs and their owners.

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It’s time to write a new story for West Garfield Park — and all the West Side

Neighborhood disinvestment and violence usually go hand in hand. That’s the case in West Garfield Park, a neighborhood with the city’s worst violence, as the Sun-Times’ Andy Grimm reported.

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Southeast Side mural pays tribute to hip-hop’s Public Enemy

This week’s Murals and Mosaics newsletter takes a look at a mural on the Southeast Side, a new painting celebrating the Chicago Bulls and another piece of art in Austin chronicling Black history in Chicago.

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Hope Academy, Chicago’s only Class 1A playoff team, is a family affair

The Eagles open the postseason at 2 p.m. Saturday against Peru St. Bede (5-4) at Altgeld Park on the West Side.

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West Side flooding prompts deluge of complaints at budget hearing

“I don’t see nothing there for the West Side. It makes me sick to my stomach,” Ald. Emma Mitts told Water Commissioner Andrea Cheng.

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North Lawndale routs Hansberry, hopes to host state playoff game

North Lawndale has been one of the most consistent football programs on the West Side recently, but the Phoenix have never won a state playoff game.

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Newest migrant arrivals, others excluded from speed up of work authorization

The Biden administration’s announcement last week included only Venezuelans arriving before August. Thousands more from Venezuela have since arrived, and many others are from different countries in Central and South America.

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‘Please ask for my help!’: a Chicago taskforce tries to save lives from deadly fentanyl

The West Side heroin/opioid taskforce is confronting the growing overdose crisis among the city’s Black population

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New Boys and Girls Club opens on West Side ‘not only for our young people but by our young people’

The $15 million, 27,000-square-foot Rusu-McCartin Boys & Girls Club is the first new club from the organization in two decades.

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Gloria Jean Eubanks, who raised 16 kids on the West Side, dies at 77

With so many kids and little money, she got creative to take care of her family. “She never gave up,” one daughter said, though “there was times we had little or hardly anything.”

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Restaurant owners hope outdoor dining changes the mindset of the West Side

Outdoor dining in Austin was relatively unheard of until the pandemic, thanks to efforts by the neighborhood chamber of commerce and the city’s Alfresco program.

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Isaac ‘Redd’ Holt, Chicago jazz legend and member of the original Ramsey Lewis Trio and Young-Holt Unlimited, dies at 91

Mr. Holt, who grew up on the West Side, became a jazz legend in the 1960s and ’70s playing in a number of groups. He also played a regular gig at the East Bank Club for 20 years until the pandemic lockdown.

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Retired CPD officer shot while trying to stop a carjacking

A retired 78-year-old Chicago police officer was shot early Wednesday morning while trying to stop a carjacking in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side, Chicago police said.

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Who will fill Brandon Johnson’s Cook County Board seat?

The application process for those interested in serving the rest of Brandon Johnson’s term on the county board was announced Wednesday. Those already vying for the spot include three members of the Leaders Network, a West Side faith-based group.

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Documentary series about Chicago’s West Side planned

Filmmaker Deontay Wilson, a native of North Lawndale, will screen “Westside Stories: Paradise Lost” on Thursday in Austin. It is the first in a series about the West Side.

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Suspect who turned to cops with gun is shot dead by police: Chicago police

CHICAGO — Police fatally shot a man who turned to them while holding a gun during a foot chase Saturday morning on the West Side.

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