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Upscale dining, Isaac Hayes singing in Washington Park, new art galleries and front-row seats to the Bud Billiken parade are just some of the amenities available to residents in historic Bronzeville on the city's South Side. Read more about Bronzeville.
Upscale dining, Isaac Hayes singing in Washington Park, new art galleries and front-row seats to the Bud Billiken parade are just some of the amenities available to residents in historic Bronzeville on the city's South Side. Read more about Bronzeville.
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Protesters: Route to new school a 'danger zone'
Tribune reporterBeads of sweat dripped down Jitu Brown’s face as he addressed about 150 marchers who had gathered on Sunday afternoon outside Overton Elementary School in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. The school at East 49th Street and South Indiana...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Oakland (Chicago, Illinois), Health and Safety at School, Chicago Public Schools, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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School-closing foes take to the streets again
Beads of sweat dripped down Jitu Brown's face as he addressed about 150 marchers who had gathered Sunday afternoon outside Overton Elementary School in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. The school at East 49th Street and South Indiana Avenue is slated...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Chicago Public Schools, Health and Safety at School, Oakland (Chicago, Illinois), Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Wright's Unity Temple gets $10 million grant for face lift
Tribune reporterFrank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple, a pilgrimage site for architectural buffs, will get a face lift, thanks to a $10 million grant from a Chicago-based foundation. Wednesday’s announcement about the striking Oak Park structure comes as...Tags: Christianity, Frank Lloyd Wright, Politics, Streeterville, Religion and Belief
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Mom of slain teen: 'You can do all the right things and still come up with the same outcome'
Tribune reportersJust before Ebony Ambrose went to bed about 10 p.m. Tuesday, her son Kevin Ambrose asked her if she had made the spinach gnocchi and apple cider pork like she had planned for dinner. Kevin Ambrose, 19, was hanging out with a friend and had not eaten...Tags: Harold Washington Library Center, Entertainment Events, Columbia College Chicago, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago Police Department
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Man, 19, fatally shot in Bronzeville
Tribune reporterA 19-year-old man was gunned down and two other men were hurt in separate shootings late Tuesday, authorities said. About 11:05 p.m., someone fired shots from a light-colored sedan, striking the 19-year-old as he walked down the sidewalk in the 4700...Tags: Shootings, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Calumet Heights, Chicago Police Department, Hospitals and Clinics
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Deal in works to save Bronzeville church?
With the dispute over the proposed demolition of St. James Church on dockets in both Cook County and Vatican City, Chicago's Catholic Archdiocese hinted at the possibility of a settlement with preservationists fighting to save the 133-year-old Bronzeville...
Tags: Human Interest, Rome (Italy), Vatican City, Judges, Fines
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Obama library, casino among options for former Reese site
A casino-entertainment complex, a major convention hotel and a Barack Obama presidential library are being floated as possible anchors for a mixed-use development of the former Michael Reese Hospital site on the Near South Side. The scenarios were...Tags: Near South Side, Richard M. Daley, William D. Burns, Libraries, Homes
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Save St. James Catholic Church
As the editorial, (“A church in Bronzeville,” Editorial, April 17) reports, the Archdiocese of Chicago appears determined to demolish historic St. James, a sacred place that has served generations of Chicagoans. Known as the mother church of...Tags: Human Interest, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Africa, Religion and Belief, Francis I
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Squad car, school bus collide on South Side
A Chicago police officer and a school bus driver suffered minor injuries when the bus and a squad car collided in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side this morning, authorities said. No children were injured, they said. The crash occurred in...
Tags: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Hospitals and Clinics
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Girlfriend in custody after man, 26, stabbed to death
Staff reportA 26-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the Bronzeville neighborhood during an apparent domestic dispute Sunday night, police said. Authorities were called about 8:40 p.m. to a home in the 4000 block of South Wabash Avenue on the South Side, Chicago...Tags: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Police Department
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Chicago Crime Overnight Report
Tribune reporterA wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • A 26-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the Bronzeville neighborhood during an apparent domestic dispute Sunday night, police said. Read more • A gunman shot two 17-year-old boys as...Tags: Heart of Chicago, Shootings, McKinley Park
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8 injured in crash involving CTA bus on South Side
Tribune reporterEight people were injured this afternoon in a crash involving a CTA bus in the city's Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side. According to preliminary information, a No. 3 King Drive bus was northbound about 1:12 p.m. on King Drive when a vehicle...Tags: University of Chicago, Hospitals and Clinics, Chicago Transit Authority
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