The Latest Breaking News from West Garfield Park

The man, 42, was standing outside in the 300 block of South Pulaski Road when someone in a dark car drove by and an occupant began shooting.

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.

“My message to single moms is that you can find a way out, find your gift and you can do anything,” said LaSonya Alexander, founder of Moms Can Do It 2.

Two teenage boys from Chicago, aged 14 and 17, have been charged with a misdemeanor after crashing a stolen car into a pickup truck in the West Garfield Park neighbourhood, killing a six month old baby and injuring three other passengers

After a foot pursuit with officers, the person turned toward the officer and “brandished a handgun” before the officer discharged his weapon, Deputy Chief Rahman Muhammad told reporters.

The men were standing on the street about Friday afternoon in the 4400 block of West West End Avenue when someone fired shots.

Within months after Mayor Lori Lightfoot took office, the police twice raided a two-flat owned by Burnett and his wife Darlena Williams-Burnett and accused them in a lawsuit of owning a “public nuisance” where drugs were sold.

The man, 42, was shot about 4:10 p.m. in the 4400 block of West Jackson Boulevard.

Derrek Booker, 34, was found in an empty lot in the 3800 block of West Van Buren Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds.