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Community members gather at the end of a peace walk for 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams at McDonald's on Roosevelt Road in North Lawndale on April 25, 2021.

Girl, 7, fatally shot inside vehicle at West Side McDonald’s drive-thru

April 19, 2021 at 9:12 a.m.

A 7-year-old girl died Sunday after she was shot inside a vehicle in a drive-thru lane at a McDonald's restaurant on the city's West Side, according to Chicago police. The...

West Pullman man accused of chasing down, fatally shooting man nearly a dozen times

April 18, 2021 at 5:39 p.m.

Cook County prosecutors couldn't say why they believe two brothers chased down and killed a young man in a hail of bullets earlier this month, but the details of the...

Tyrone F. Muhammad, executive director of Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change, left, speaks with local resident Keith Fort on April 12, 2021, in front of Sunnyside marijuana dispensary in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood. Muhammad and others hosted a demonstration against big-money dispensaries muscling out would-be minority owners.

Legal weed’s first year in Chicago: High arrest rates for Black people, a boutique experience for others

April 16, 2021 at 3:23 p.m.

Marijuana legalization has been a boyhood dream come true for Keith Fort, a recently retired stage manager for live events who said he's glad Chicago finally joined the ranks of...

Vacant silos sit along the Calumet River next to the Calumet Fisheries seafood shack, top left, on March 3, 2021, in Chicago.

Fiercely proud of their home, residents of the Southeast Side — long a toxic dumping ground — are rising up against polluters

March 26, 2021 at 4:17 p.m.

In Far Southeast Side Hegewisch, a row of modest single-family homes and two baseball fields sit less than a mile from mountainous heaps of petcoke to the east and day-glo...

Residents fight Army Corps plan to expand sludge tank at the mouth of the Calumet River instead of building a park

March 26, 2021 at 4:21 p.m.

Growing up in the old mill neighborhood of South Chicago, Marcelina Pedraza said she and her siblings would have loved to have access to Lake Michigan without needing to make...

A man walks past a police crime barricade during a standoff in the 200 block of North LaCrosse after a Chicago police officer was shot in the hand March 20, 2021.

West Side man charged with attempted murder in shooting that wounded officer, led to standoff

March 21, 2021 at 7:59 p.m.

A West Side man fired at three bystanders shortly before turning the gun on five Chicago police officers, wounding one, in a failed attempt to have the officers fatally shoot...

Chicago police officers work at the scene of a mass shooting at South Side Think Tank that left 15 people shot.

2 people who were fatally shot have been identified in South Side mass shooting that left 13 others injured at ‘pop-up party,’ Chicago police say

March 14, 2021 at 6:46 p.m.

At least 15 people were shot, two of them fatally, inside a "pop-up party" early Sunday at a business that operates as a tow company and apparent event space on...

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