Atavia Reed

The Saturday event will provide volunteer and exemption opportunities to neighbors who could lose access to federal food assistance benefits this month.

A fundraising effort spearheaded by local tech hubs is underway to restore and reopen the century-old dilapidated pool inside the Salud Center.

From repurposed vacant lots near forthcoming nature trails to a 6,000-square-foot farm in a church's backyard, South Side farmers markets are in full swing.

Shoppers have until noon June 22 to visit the mall, which opened in 1965 and has been deteriorating for years. Sixteen tenants remain, including the city's last JCPenney.

The city is looking to force the sale of eight properties owned Paul A. Cawley and his now-dissolved company, Achadboy Properties, and recoup over $1 million in fines.

A Cook County judge is giving Paul Cawley 30 days to respond to a city foreclosure complaint about eight abandoned lots he owned on the South and West sides.

Two Southwest Side groups will host a community meeting Saturday to rally neighbors and collect feedback on the future of the site.

Nikkita Randle’s grab-and-go restaurant, four years in the making, will replace a long-vacant building and could welcome customers by the end of the year.

Over $500,000 in improvements are in the works for Tuley, Cole, Brown Memorial and Dawes Parks and the Hamilton Park Cultural Center.

Included in a gift bag from Mayor Brandon Johnson to the pope was a letter from three sisters — ages 9, 5 and 2 — who told the pope they were afraid for their father amid immigration raids.