The Latest Breaking News from West Side

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 18, 2022

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 14, 2022

15-year-old boy dropped off at hospital with gunshot wound

The boy was left at Loretto Hospital on the West Side with a gunshot wound to the right leg, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 12, 2022

Urban farm cultivates development in East Garfield Park — but it’s no charity: ‘Let’s empower’

Herban Produce in East Garfield Park switched from a nonprofit farm to for-profit in 2018. The team urges residents to visit, not because they’re on the West Side of Chicago, but because they offer “the best produce.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 28, 2022

Why aren’t more Chicago parents going for free universal preschool?

CPS is offering universal pre-K for 4-year-olds in most of the city, but WBEZ found that thousands of seats are unfilled — mostly in schools serving high numbers of low-income families with large majorities of Black or Latino children.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 27, 2022

New West Side block party seeing ‘Purple’

Debuting Sunday, Purple Block Party is created by West Siders for their community.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 25, 2022

1 killed, 8 wounded in shootings in Chicago Wednesday

Four teenagers were shot in a drive-by attack outside an ice cream shop across the street from Schurz High School on the Northwest Side.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 25, 2022

A converted RV offers a new hope for fighting opioid deaths in the city’s hardest-hit areas

The mobile center — one of just 2 approved for operation in Illinois — offers a new treatment that could transform narcotics care for users on the West Side.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 22, 2022

Rehab of CTA Blue Line should include reopening closed stations

If these stations and entrances are restored, five neighborhoods on the West Side will have an opportunity for residential and commercial growth that they wouldn’t have otherwise.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 16, 2022

3 teens among 7 wounded by gunfire across Chicago Wednesday

In one of the attacks, a 14-year-old boy was shot while riding his bike Wednesday evening in the University Village neighborhood on the Near West Side.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 11, 2022