One autumn day in 2003, rival gang members shot Johnnie “Big Cat” Williams to death on a contested street corner in the Maquis Park section of Chicago’s South Side. (The names are fictional ...

ccording to Arnold Hirsch, in Making the Second Ghetto (Cambridge, $10.95 paperback), Chicago`s postwar housing projects were a colossal exercise in moral deception. Frightened by the rapid growth … ...

Lloyd Newman, who made ‘Ghetto Life 101’ documentary at 13, dead at 43 He was well known for the radio documentary “Ghetto Life 101” that he, LeAlan Jones and David Isay produced. He later ...

A veteran Chicago police detective faces termination after posting hundreds of offensive comments on social media that targeted Blacks, Muslims, immigrants, and LGBTQ people over ...

In the early 90s, teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman recorded a week of their lives on Chicago's South Side. Working with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, LeAlan and Lloyd produced a documentary ...

Fiery meeting over planned lakefront development on old South Chicago steel mill site A gathering of neighbors on Chicago's South Side turned fiery Tuesday night, as they call for answers on a big ...

In Black Metropolis, their great study of Chicago’s south side originally published in 1945, St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton acknowledged this disparity by referring to the neighborhood as ...

South Chicago, past and present The area around the Calumet River could have become the site of downtown Chicago. It became a manufacturing community instead, and now moves into a post-industrial era.

DIXMOOR, Ill. (CBS) -- Record-high property taxes are hitting homeowners in the south suburbs of Chicago—after a reassessment was conducted in those communities. Some property owners in south ...

About a dozen cars were damaged and ransacked early Saturday morning in the South Loop, Chicago police say.

Shawn Popow, a 20-year employee with the Chicago Police Department, found himself in hot water last November when he was notified by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, which ...