Hundreds head to Springfield to push for funding for new Little Village hospital
They're pushing for funding for a new Saint Anthony Hospital facility in Little Village.
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They're pushing for funding for a new Saint Anthony Hospital facility in Little Village.
They'll be heading to Springfield to ask state lawmakers for the necessary funding to build the new Saint Anthony development.
They'll be heading to Springfield to ask state lawmakers for the necessary funding to build the new Saint Anthony development.
Organizers are expecting about 400 people to board buses here at Saint Anthony Hospital and set off at 7 a.m.
Police said the driver of the SUV was issued citations for operating an uninsured motor vehicle and driving on a revoked license.
A head-on crash involving a school bus sent several people, including children, to the hospital in Little Village on Tuesday. According to the Chicago Police Department, the crash took place in the 3100 block of South Kedzie Avenue and left 17 people injured.
What began as a typical day inside Kyle Nowicki's design lab at Little Village Academy took a sudden turn that left him baffled.
The CIA set out on a mission on Thursday, closing in on a deserving educator working hard to help students. CBS 2's Andrew Ramos was there for the surprise that's bringing much needed funds to a Chicago classroom.
Numerous charred pieces of wood were left behind at the pallet yard at 25th and Rockwell streets.
Numerous charred pieces of wood were left behind at the pallet yard at 25th and Rockwell streets.
The wind Monday night made fighting the fire more difficult.
The wind Monday night made fighting the fire more difficult.
Walmart claims the stores they're closing aren't profitable and have been losing millions of dollars a year.
The new location is a vacant Kmart, and more than 40 ousted vendors from the Little Village Discount Mall are set to move in. CBS 2's Marissa Perlman reports.
Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez (25th) hopes this will be a fresh start for these families.
Dozens of vendors who were kicked out of the Discount Mall building in Little Village will officially have a new home. The news comes amid an ongoing battle over leases at the Discount Mall, a place some of these vendors have been running their businesses for decades
Community members will gather this afternoon at the Walmart neighborhood market on West Cermak to push to keep the location open.
Every month, the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation highlights the bravery of Chicago police officers. On Thursday, the honorees included officers who saved seven people from a burning building in Little Village last year.
Saturday volunteers from Cook County Crime Stoppers were out in the Little Village neighborhood handing out flyers in hopes of catching Reina Seb's killer.
Cook County Crime Stoppers told us volunteers will be out in that neighborhood on Saturday handing out reward flyers.
In February, Reina Cristina Ical Seb was found shot to death in the alley behind the 2400 block of South Drake Avenue.
The community has been pushing for answers about the deaths of two young women.
The community has been pushing for answers about the deaths of two young women.
Back in 2001, parents and community leaders held a 19-day hunger strike -- demanding CPS build a new high school that had been promised by the Chicago Board of Education when Vallas was serving as chief.
Their leases were supposed to expire on Tuesday, but got extended thanks to a deal negotiated by the city.
