Back of the Yards

The market kicks off Saturday at Davis Square Park and features locally grown produce, honey and flowers.

People can buy books and other goods from local book vendors, participate in family-friendly activities and renew their library cards at the Sunday event.

A $20 ticket to the Friday fundraiser inside The Plant includes food. All beer sales will support scholarships for students who cannot access traditional financial aid.

Edgar Florentino is brightening up the neighborhood he grew up in by landscaping "hot corners" — streets where there is a lot of gun violence.

Twenty-one people were shot — two fatally — Tuesday in Chicago. No one was in custody in two mass shootings that happened in Woodlawn and Back of the Yards.

A second lawsuit alleges New City Supportive Living in Back of the Yards failed to properly care for another resident who experienced physical injury and emotional harm.

The vision for the 47th Street and Ashland Avenue corridor is expanding after city officials asked competing developers to team up for the ambitious project.

Another grantee, Esperanza Health, is using its $4.2 million grant to build a sprawling neighborhood health campus in Brighton Park.

Neighborhood restaurants, businesses and community centers were awarded grants of up to $7 million as part of the Chicago Recovery Plan's community development initiative.

Relatives of Karina Peña Alanis launched a GoFundMe this week to memorialize the mother of three, who was missing nearly two weeks before authorities found her body Friday morning in Pilsen.

Harvest Food Group will build the facility in New City, turning an 8.3-acre site into a 220,000-square-foot building focused on food production and storage, with public green space and landscaping.

The development also will bring a performing arts center to the site of a former furniture store.

The South Side alderman hopes his promise to be tough on crime can oust Mayor Lori Lightfoot from City Hall. "I am sick and tired of watching Chicago flounder at the hands of a rudderless ship,” he said.

Hundreds of Chicagoans attended a city-sponsored town hall to discuss strategies to stop crime. "The stronger relationship you have with your neighbor, the safer block you're going to be living on," one city leader said.

Attendance is down. Behavioral issues are up. COVID has waned and surged. At Richards Career Academy, staff and students are forging ahead.

Jesus Segoviano struggled to find low-cost care for 15-year-old Whiskey, who had a painful, potentially fatal dental infection. But PAWS is connecting low-income residents with care for their furry loved ones.

Grants from the Chicago Fund in 2021 helped an East Garfield Park block club organize a block party and a North Lawndale anti-violence group put on community bike rides, a Juneteenth concert and a back-to-school event.

The family was able to escape, but their dogs died in the fire. It's not the first time they've faced adversity — the family sued ICE and the city in 2017 after father Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez was wrongfully put in the Police Department's gang database.

Nine truckloads of stuff have been carted out of Ald. Ray Lopez’s ward, which covers parts of Back of the Yards, Gage Park and Brighton Park.