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"I thought about, 'what if the slaves from the 1800s were to come here today, and have a conversation with us?' Like, how disappointed would they be?" playwright Richard Gallion said.
A photo from the scene showed a severely damaged single-story house.
The fire also spread to a neighboring house on South Homewood Avenue.
Police said the boy was walking on the sidewalk in the 11000 block of South Racine Avenue around 10 p.m., when someone shot him in the right leg.
A Chicago Police SWAT car crashed on the way to a domestic situation in Morgan Park.
A Rock Island Metra line train struck a vehicle near 112th Street In Morgan Park Friday morning.
Prayers were held at a Morgan Park church Monday night for Bradley, Illinois police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic, who was murdered in a hotel last month, and Officer Tyler Bailey, who was shot and critically wounded in the same incident.
Police said victims parked their cars in a driveway, when multiple armed teenagers demanded their vehicles and personal belongings.
Chicago police are investigating church burglaries in the Morgan Park neighborhood.
Three young teenagers were shot and wounded Wednesday evening in the Morgan Park community.
Rallies in support of Chicago Police were held in Chicago Wednesday evening, following Officer Ella French's on-duty murder and amid more divisiveness between the police rank-and-file and city leaders.
"We've been asking for help a long time and no one ever came down to cut these trees or none of that."
Eugene McLaurin is charged with one count of using a dangerous and deadly weapon to assault a special agent from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Detectives were questioning a "person of interest" Wednesday night, after a Chicago Police officer and two ATF agents were shot earlier in the Morgan Park neighborhood. Sources said they were targeted and ambushed.
Preparations were under way Wednesday night for the Beverly-Morgan Park Juneteenth Festival, planned for 110th Place and Longwood Drive. But some people were not pleased to hear about the festival.
"We will continue to meet every month with local USPS leadership to hold them accountable and ensure these solutions are working for our constituents."
It's not just an eyesore but a hazard – the city is trying to crack down on a problem property in Morgan Park that has infuriated neighbors.
The Chicago Department of Water Management confirmed two power issues between 9:15 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday affected pressure for drinking water from the Roseland Pumping Station, affecting service in Beverly and Morgan Park.
City officials have lifted a boil order that was issued for parts of the Beverly, Morgan Park, and Roseland neighborhoods on Thursday, after a brief outage at the Roseland Pumping Station.
Some of the items taken from the vehicles include three weapons, government IDs, travel cards and a bullet proof vest.
Dog owners in Morgan Park are on high alert – accusing a neighbor of trying to poison their pets using hot dogs.
Crews are responding to a water main break in Morgan Park early Wednesday morning.
A fire ripped through a house in the Morgan Park neighborhood Monday night.
A Chicago man has been charged in connection with a carjacking in Orland Park Friday.
We've told you about chronic trash dumping issues in a Far South Side community. Thanks to his dogged reporting, CBS 2's Tim McNicholas now has a better sense of what may be to blame.
