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Group wants to create walkable village with grocery stores, arts center, clinic on West Side

The Garfield Park Rite to Wellness Collaborative is one of six finalists vying for the Pritzker Traubert Foundation $10 million Chicago Prize 2022.

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Earn-as-you-learn job training to launch on West Side

Participants will get weekly stipends as they complete a four-month program. After that, they are guaranteed a job interview for a position with Rush Health.

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Cooking class on West Side a healthy heart repast

Participants in the class are part of an ongoing eight-week health and fitness challenge in Garfield Park.

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Thousands of diapers given away at West Side hospital

Mount Sinai Hospital in North Lawndale launched the program this year, providing free diapers to infants born at the hospital.

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Man charged with murder in July shooting on West Side

Michael Lampley, 25, a parolee, is accused of shooting Shawn Brown, 31, on July 25 in Humboldt Park.

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Museum will preserve stories of public housing residents: ‘You don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you came from’

The Near West Side site will occupy the site of the former Jane Addams Homes and will use the last remaining building from that public housing complex.

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Artist collective raises $350K to invest in West Side

alt_ (you can call them “Alt Space”) plans to put the money to work on education and beautification projects, among other things.

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Gang lifer takes stand in federal trial against reputed Wicked Town boss, associate

Deshawn Morgan was immersed in Chicago’s West Side gang culture before he was even out of grade school, dealing drugs at age 12 and rising in the ranks of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords.

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Hope Academy aims for Class 1A glory

No area school has won a Class 1A title since Hampshire in 1979, and no West Side program — public or private — ever has won state.

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Man was aiming a BB gun at officers at police station when he was shot, officials say

In the hospital, Terrick Bland told police he was attempting to get officers’ attention with the gun and had no intention of shooting them, prosecutors said Friday.

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Chicago police shoot man inside West Side police station after he shouts ‘anti-police sentiments,’ points gun at officers, top cop says

CHICAGO — Police shot and wounded a man inside a police station after he walked inside shouting “anti-police sentiments” and pointed a gun wrapped in a plastic bag at officers, police Superintendent David Brown said Wednesday afternoon.

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Chicago police shoot man inside West Side police station, officials say

CHICAGO — Chicago police allegedly shot a man inside the Ogden District police station on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.

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Officer shoots armed man inside Chicago police station

Chicago police say an officer shot an armed man inside a police station on the city's West Side

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After second shooting in a week at a Chicago police facility, top cop says department looking at making stations safer

In the latest shooting, officers wounded a man who allegedly pointed a gun at them inside the Ogden District police station on the West Side.

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Well-known West Side house staying, but distinctive pink trim is going

The 19th century Victorian house will lose its status as the ‘candy house’ but will remain a testament to another era of Chicago.

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Eight-week health and fitness challenge kicks off in Garfield Park

Participants will take fitness classes and healthy cooking classes; ‘I’ve never known anything specifically geared toward the health and wellness of the community like this,’ said one organizer.

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Man, 18, killed in Northwest Side shooting

John Park, 18, was shot in the chest Saturday in the 5600 block of North St. Louis Avenue, police and the medical examiner’s office said.

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Man found shot to death on West Side

He was found with a gunshot wound in the chest in the 2400 block of West Ogden Avenue, police said.

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Police shut down South Side, West Side businesses over violence, go easy on clout-heavy bars downtown

Since 2015, the Chicago Police Department has shut down at least 58 businesses, most on the South Side and West Side, after shootings at or near their premises even as violence surged downtown.

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1 killed, 4 others wounded in shootings Tuesday across Chicago

A man, 18, was fatally shot on the Southwest Side, and a 27-year-old off-duty police officer was shot during an apparent road rage incident on the Northwest Side.

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At least 8 injured in explosion at Chicago apartment building, officials say

CHICAGO — At least eight people were injured when a four-story building partially collapsed due to an explosion on the city’s West Side Tuesday morning, according to authorities.

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8 hurt in Austin apartment building explosion: ‘It sounded like a bomb’

At least three of the injured were in serious to critical condition, fire officials said, as rescue crews searched the four-story building at West End and Central avenues.

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CPD employee found dead of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at Dan Ryan Woods

The 55-year-old man worked as a detention aide in the Austin District on the West Side, according to sources and an alert from the Police Department.

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After a pandemic break, North Lawndale College Prep students are ‘Peace Warriors’ again

Based on principles inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., the West Side high school trains students to resist and prevent violence.

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12-year-old boy shot and seriously wounded in apparent ‘random act of violence’ on Near West Side

A car that fled the scene of the shooting Tuesday night was tracked to Hinsdale, where local police arrested three suspects.

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