Englewood, Chatham, Auburn Gresham

You can also go to a bike garage sale, help identify native bird and plant species, and volunteer to clean up the Chicago River. 

Jahmal Cole, who founded the group, said he'd like to turn the closed Walmart into a community center, though those plans are still in early stages.

Someone ignited an object and threw it at the back of a home, setting it on fire, police said. The 4-year-old was critically injured.

Buddy Bear Car Wash will replace vacant land despite protests from neighbors who demanded local leaders work to put a sit-down restaurant or a business that would spur more jobs there instead.

But the charter school network that serves Black boys said Wednesday it filed a lawsuit to keep control of two South Side high schools.

You can also do yoga with bunnies, celebrate Earth Day with various activities and workshops and watch a film shot in Rogers Park.

The Feed the Dream fundraiser goes until May 31 and will include prizes for the top individual and team fundraisers. Every $1,000 raised will provide produce for one family for a year.

The nonprofit gave away 1,000 boxes of food Sunday in the Chatham Walmart parking lot — and group leaders have vowed to hold more distributions.

Neighbors have said they were stunned by the announcement and are worried about losing access to affordable food, prescriptions and necessities.

Smaller grocery stores were forced to close after Walmart opened in Chatham in 2012, Father Michael Pfleger said at a protest Thursday. “Now the bully pulls out and says it doesn’t want to be here anymore."

Customers and local leaders are scrambling to find alternatives for groceries, prescriptions and other necessities in the wake of the mega chain's decision to abruptly shutter four of its eight Chicago stores.

A prominent neighborhood group wants developers to pause work and host a community meeting. The housing, originally pitched for an Invest South/West site, was revived as a separate proposal in May.

The stores are closing due to years of poor sales, company officials said. Elected leaders rebuked the move, saying the company was abandoning neighborhoods already lacking grocery stores and pharmacies.

The city now has about $29.4 million in federal, state and city funding to build the nature trail — a $72 million project, city officials said in March.

Reams, a native South Sider whose mother owns Brown Sugar Bakery, is in "Proximity," an opera that focuses on societal challenges. The final performance is Saturday night.

Neighbors, officials and community leaders said they felt blindsided as the company announced it'd open Thursday. Following the pushback, store leaders postponed the opening.

With all 29 precincts reporting, Mosley held 52.12 percent of the vote over Cornell Dantzler.

With all 27 precincts reporting, Hall held 57.8 percent of the vote to challenger Richard Wooten's 42.1 percent. 

Abdul Muhammad has been reassigned to a district network office. It was not immediately known why, but CPS officials said it was not related to reports of teachers taking students to vote.

“Lil Chico From Tuley Park,” a free, family-friendly exhibit dedicated to Veney's love for the South Side, will debut Saturday at A Very Serious Gallery in River West.