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 … ...

'Worthless Ghetto Mutts': Chicago Cop's 20-Year Job Is On the Line After Being Exposed for 'Hundreds' of Hateful Social ... a name he chose due to his German heritage and his work on the South Side.

He later was framed by corrupt Chicago cop Ronald Watts for drug possession, then exonerated. Lloyd Newman, made ‘Ghetto Life 101’ documentary at 13, dead at 43 of sickle cell complications ...

SPECIAL: Remembering Lloyd Newman of Ghetto Life 101 : StoryCorps In the early 90s, teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman recorded a week of their lives on Chicago's South Side. Working with ...

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 was annexed by Chicago in 1889. The community then had about 24,000 people, and more were on the way. Many of these settlers were Poles and other Eastern Europeans.