Carlos Ramirez-Rosa

All of the residents — about 35 — were matched with housing thanks to an interagency effort. The outcome shows what can be done with more funding for homelessness, advocates say.

Nature's Grace and Wellness and budding company Green & Randle want a special-use permit to open a dispensary in a long-vacant storefront on Belmont Avenue.

Ramirez-Rosa ran unopposed after his lone challenger fell five signatures short of what was required to make the ballot.

Some neighbors were annoyed when the CTA added a canopy to the station years ago but didn't install an elevator. Belmont is one of three Blue Line stations getting major upgrades thanks to federal funding.

Hundreds of petition signatures for challenger Richard Mpistolarides were invalidated, leaving him just short of the requirement, elections officials ruled Friday.

This week’s event is the latest go at the Police Department’s spray-painting strategy, held to cut down on skyrocketing catalytic converter thefts.

The lanes will be installed on Kedzie Avenue between Diversey Avenue and Addison Street.

New plans have emerged for the long-vacant Grace's Furniture building in the heart of Logan Square.

A homeless encampment was a fixture of Fireman's Park for years, even as the city tried to clear the area. Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa credits a huge boost in city housing funding with helping its residents.

Drivers often barrel down the street, smashing into cars, neighbors say. Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa hopes removing one lane of traffic will cut down on crashes.

Bickerdike Redevelopment Corp., the nonprofit developer behind The Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments, has taken over the project and has secured a 99-year lease for the CTA-owned land.

Nixon Elementary also is getting a new basketball court, running track and a fence for security.

On the Blue Line, the CTA is only running 50-55 percent of its scheduled trains. "People are no longer able to trust that this vital public service going to get them where they need to go on time," Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa said.

Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is teaming up with the city to restore the deteriorating Fireman's Memorial Park mural, which was painted in the mid-'80s after the devastating blaze.

A complete overhaul of Milwaukee Avenue — a project that has been in the works for 15 years and includes the much-anticipated redesign of the Logan Square traffic circle — also is inching forward, city officials said.

Someone pretending to be neighborhood leader Andrew Schneider declared his candidacy while disparaging Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa. Schneider said it's "an example of a cowardly troll hiding behind a veil of anonymity."

Formerly known as Emmett Street Apartments, the development has been renamed after Chicago labor activist Lucy Gonzalez Parsons.

In his bid for Congress, Villegas is touting a Logan Square affordable housing project as an achievement. Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa and others said Villegas is taking credit for something he "had nothing to do with."

The outage, planned for 8 a.m.- 4 p.m., will impact households in the area bounded by Milwaukee Avenue, Diversey Avenue, Lawndale Avenue, Wolfram Street and Central Park Avenue.