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Ald. Stephanie Coleman, 16th, at Access Health Facility in Chicago on May 4, 2020.

Inaugural Englewood Music Fest is Saturday. Organizers’ goal is to celebrate the community and help change the narrative.

September 17, 2021 at 4:14 p.m.

Chicago Ald. Stephanie Coleman has had the idea for a music festival in Englewood for seven years. After going to other community festivals such as the Hyde Park Summer Fest...

New coalition called Justice Rising: Project 77 forms in Chicago to provide ‘holistic’ approach to preventing crime

September 7, 2021 at 6:21 p.m.

Fredrick Dennis was walking the straight and narrow during the first half of his freshman year at Prosser Career Academy. He was a straight-A student and spent his time outside...

Dr. Sheila Rowe ties 3-year-old Noah Hood's shoes after the two were playing outside Noah's father's store in the East Hyde Park neighborhood during the Labor Day holiday weekend on Sept. 5, 2021, in Chicago.

East Lakeview neighborhood parade returns on Labor Day

September 6, 2021 at 5:24 p.m.

About 150 people of all ages marched under a cloudless sky on Labor Day for the 58th annual Wellington Oakdale Old Glory Marching Society parade. Many children rode the parade...

Angela Gregg, mother of Mychal Moultry, Jr, left, Father Michael Pfleger, center, and Mychal Moultry Sr, hold a press conference at St. Sabina Church in Chicago on Sept. 9, 2021, to call for the person who fatally shot their son, Mychal Moultry, Jr, to come forward and surrender to police.

At least 58 people shot over Labor Day weekend

September 6, 2021 at 5:08 p.m.

The summer of 2021 ended on a violent note this Labor Day weekend, with close to 60 people shot between Friday afternoon and Monday morning. The weekend's total of 58...

Students from Eric Solorio Academy High School and Irene Hernandez Middle School for the Advancement of the Sciences arrive for the first day of classes on Aug. 30, 2021.

Masks, nerves and trying to social distance: How the 1st day went in Chicago Public Schools

August 31, 2021 at 2:57 p.m.

Hundreds of thousands of students returned to Chicago Public Schools' classrooms Monday, most for the first in-person instruction since the pandemic prompted a statewide school shutdown in March 2020. Here's...

CPS reopening: Worries, excitement, busing woes mark first day as schools reopen fully

August 30, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

Bianca Sligh returned to Kenwood Academy High School on Monday for her senior year after spending the last school year remote learning because of the pandemic. "I would hate to...

Vehicles drive along the Dan Ryan Expressway near West 31st Street on Aug. 25, 2021 in Chicago.

Expressway shootings on rise in Chicago area. License plate cameras being installed to help, but ‘more … needs to happen,’ advocate cautions.

August 27, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

Denise Huguelet and Tamara Clayton never met. But their lives, dedicated to the service of others, were as similar as their premature, unnecessary deaths: Both women were slain while traveling...

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