Stephanie Coleman

In Evanston, longtime residents and their families who are descendants of enslaved people can get $50,000 per household to buy or fix up a home.

Four proposals center around repurposing the former firehouse near 63rd and Halsted. Residents can share feedback on the proposals through online surveys until Thursday.

Local businessmen and volunteers are stepping up to stand watch at neighborhood gas stations as part of "Operation Safe Pump."

The Census in the Ward event is noon-3 p.m. Tuesday at the southwest corner of 63rd and Halsted streets.

Community members are invited to share poetry, songs and other creative expressions to remember the lives of Chicago children lost to gun violence.

The $2.7 million project is just one part of the plan Moore has for the 115 year-old park.

The Trap Pastor will return to his outpost near Moran Park on Friday at 3:30 to give out hot dogs, hamburgers, groceries, masks and baby items for those in need.

Those who come forward about baby Sincere's killer should be protected by their neighbors, activists say. We must "circle around those who speak up."

Working out of a makeshift studio in Moran Park Field House, Sylvia Joy Smith is amplifying the voices of Englewood neighbors normally excluded from the conversation.

More than 500 people and five aldermen packed a South Side auditorium to discuss solutions to issues facing Englewood.

"For so long, the aldermen of Englewood have not worked together," one alderman said. But the current crop of aldermen are trying to change that now.

An Englewood pastor is bringing the party back this summer. Donations are welcome.

It was the second straight election that Stephanie Coleman challenged Toni Foulkes in the Southwest Side ward.