Archer Heights

Traffic flies by on Archer Avenue as if it were taking off from a runway at nearby Midway International Airport. The six lanes of concrete — two for parking and four for navigating one of the city's famous diagonal streets — resemble a runway....

Police issued a community alert this afternoon warning about an armed man who has been robbing small retail stores at night in the city's Chicago Lawn District. Police said the man displays a handgun and demands money from the register and safe. One...

Shootings across Chicago have left at least four people hurt since Saturday night, according to police. The first shooting happened just before 10 p.m. in the Archer Heights neighborhood, near Midway Airport. A man, age 20, was shot in the torso...

A 16-year-old boy and a woman were among four people shot overnight in the city, police said. Someone shot the woman in the leg about 5:20 a.m. today while she was outside in the 700 block of West Gladys Avenue  in the West Loop Gate neighborhood,...

A vehicle struck two pedestrians in the Ravenswood neighborhood Friday night, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, police said. In a separate collision in the Archer Heights neighborhood, a 61-year-man died after being struck by a...

West Nile cases in the United States are 40 percent up from last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there are 1,590 confirmed cases nationally. There have been 66 deaths so far this year. More than 70 percent of the cases were...

Nearly a dozen vehicles were damaged by rocks thrown from an overpass on the Stevenson Expressway near Pulaski Road on the Southwest Side. In at least the third such incident in about a week, rocks rained down on motorists between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m....

A man was shot twice in the South Chicago neighborhood at about 7:30 p.m. today, one of at least four shootings in Chicago since noon, police said. The man, 24, was standing on a corner near 83rd Street and Saginaw Avenue when he heard several shots...

Illinois Bar & Grill This year marks the 25th birthday of Illinois Bar & Grill in the Archer Heights neighborhood, not far from Midway Airport. Happy birthday, guys. Don't change. These burgers have garnered a cult following on the Southwest Side (and...