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Incumbent City Council members in 25th, 29th wards challenged over records on public safety

Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) and Chris Taliaferro (29th) aren’t keeping their constituents safe, their challengers say. The data tell a more complex story.

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Pop-up for entrepreneurs ‘with the potential to go brick and mortar’ opens on Southwest Side

Several up-and-coming businesses will take over a pair of vacant storefronts on a Southwest Side commercial strip for the next several months as the owners look for opportunities to grow.

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Madame who ran ‘premier Dungeon of Chicago’ pleads guilty to conspiracy

When she was first charged in summer 2019, Jessica Nesbitt’s attorneys insisted she ran a legal business and paid her taxes. But Wednesday, she admitted arranging for prostitution appointments and charging rates of $300 to $1,000 per hour “depending upon the services.”

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Jason Heyward opens his baseball academy — a 10-acre campus that also includes Chicago’s largest indoor soccer field

CHICAGO — Former Chicago Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward attended a ribbon cutting Thursday for the North Austin Center, a 10-acre campus for education, sports and wellness on Chicago’s West Side.

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Chicago Tool Library opens new location, in West Side warehouse

The library’s collection includes a range of items, from home improvement tools to projectors, all available for Chicago residents to borrow. It’s open three days a week.

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Violence in some Chicago neighborhoods puts young men at greater risk than U.S. troops faced in Iraq, Afghanistan war zones, study finds

The researchers say their findings point to a need for more trauma-related health care in those places, especially in the West Side ZIP code 60624.

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10-acre youth sports complex, community center opens on West Side: ‘It’ll be valuable to have kids from all different neighborhoods under one roof’

The new North Austin Center includes Chicago’s largest turf field, 15 fields and courts for year-round camps, leagues and tournaments, plus an eSports lab — all designed to close the opportunity gap in youth sports.

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North Lawndale beats Marshall in West Side city tournament showdown

North Lawndale, which opened in 1998 and started varsity basketball in 2000, has never finished a season with a losing record. So there is plenty of pride to play for over the next few weeks.

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United Center concessions workers authorize strike

The labor dispute hits during a busy time on the West Side arena’s calendar, with a strike potentially affecting 700 employees.

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Earn-as-you-learn job training program on West Side doubles in size

The four-month program launched in October, and included weekly stipend and a guaranteed job interview.

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Family mourns loss of ‘vibrant and bright’ 93-year-old woman killed in West Side hit-and-run

“She was still so spry at 93 and that is such a tragic way she had to leave here,” her daughter Celestine Stanton told the Sun-Times.

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Picture Chicago: This week’s 14 can’t miss Sun-Times photos

Among them, Fall Out Boy’s surprise homecoming show, a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Public Safety Training Center on the West Side, and the first day of early voting for the 2023 municipal elections.

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2 Chicago police officers among 4 hurt when squad car strikes truck on West Side

The squad car was going west near the 2800 block of West Harrison Street when it hit the truck going east on Harrison Street, police said.

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Weekend gun violence: 17-year-old boy among 7 killed, 26 other people wounded in Chicago

Three people were fatally shot within minutes in attacks Sunday night on the South and West Sides, according to police.

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West Side group wins $10M to create walkable village with grocery stores, arts center, clinic

The Garfield Park Rite to Wellness Collaborative is the recipient of the Pritzker Traubert Foundation $10 million Chicago Prize 2022.

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Free tax prep service on South, West sides is still well short of volunteers since pandemic

Ladder Up, a nonprofit providing free tax-filing assistance, said it’s seeking about 800 helpers, the number it had before the pandemic.

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Friendship starts with a fight, blossoms into a boxing club training at-risk youth

‘The vision for the gym is to be able to serve the community we’re in and the neighborhoods we grew up in,’ said Antonio Beniquez, co-founder of the Barracks Boxing Club on the Northwest Side.

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Boy, 15, wounded in West Side drive-by shooting

The boy was shot in the 400 block of South Western Avenue.

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West Side arts organization reeling after leader Jon Veal dies at 30

‘We believed that art could be a tool and that if we gave our best, we could leave the world a better place.’ said close friend Jordan Campbell, who along with Jon Veal cofounded alt_Chicago.

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South, West side residents gear up for city sale of vacant lots

More than 2,000 city-owned lots will go on sale next year; the new incarnation of an old program is getting mixed reviews from residents.

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Too many people are dying from opioid overdoses. Prevention sites would save lives.

Illinois are on track for another record-breaking year of opioid overdose deaths, most of which occur on Chicago’s West Side. Prevention sites, commonly known as ‘safe injection sites,’ keep people alive and connect them to drug abuse treatment.

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Humboldt Park getting 24 new homes — all built in West Side warehouse

The builder, Inherent LC3, installed the first home in August and is weeks away from delivering the second and third. The single-family houses are all going up near Laura S. Ward Elementary School.

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Austin building fire leaves 1 dead

The blaze erupted Wednesday morning in a two-story building in the 1600 block of North Mayfield Avenue.

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Off-duty Chicago police officer found dead of apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound — 2nd such CPD death in a week

The 1st District officer was found Tuesday morning in a home on the West Side, according to a police spokesman.

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Two boys, 14 and 15, killed, two other teens wounded in shooting outside Juarez High School

All were shot around 2:30 p.m. in the 2100 block of South Laflin Street on the West Side, police said. A radio dispatch to officers said a suspect in a black mask, black hoodie and black North Face jacket was seen running west on Cermak Road and north on Ashland…

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