Medical Centers Team Up To Host Free Summer Health Screening Event In Austin Community
Two Chicago medical centers have joined forces for free health screenings for people who live in the Austin neighborhood.
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Two Chicago medical centers have joined forces for free health screenings for people who live in the Austin neighborhood.
For more than 20 years Creative Salon has been considered a safe place, and now the community refuses to let the double murder deter them from giving people a second chance.
Children and seniors were inside a West Side barbershop this week when two men walked in, found their target, and opened fire.
Sailing is new experience for some Chicago teenagers. As CBS 2's Jim Williams reported Tuesday, a West Side pastor and community leader is hoping the maritime life shows the kids a world of possibilities.
Three mass shootings transpired over a period of four days recently on the city's West Side – leaving two teenagers dead and 13 other people injured after gunshots rang out in North Lawndale and Austin. As CBS 2's Jackie Kostek reported Sunday, community members say the violence does not sit well with them.
Six people, mostly teenagers, were injured in a mass shooting at a West Side party Saturday night.
A chunk of money in the Illinois state budget, currently on Gov. JB Pritzker's desk, is marked for violence prevention in Chicago neighborhoods dealing with rising crime.
A car was caught on video speeding down Madison Street on the city's West Side Monday morning, only to crash and split in half.
Nine Inch Nails and The Smashing Pumpkins are among the headliners announced on Friday for Riot Fest in September.
Prosecutors on Sunday said an 18-year-old man charged in the shooting that killed of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams stayed in a car while two other men with him got out and opened fire, and also said he had threatened Jaslyn's father before.
It's an astounding number – more than 1 million people are driving with expired licenses or using expired IDs in Illinois right now. Making the problem worse in the Chicago area is that almost a half dozen Illinois Secretary of State's driver's license facilities are closed.
Earth's Remedies, a local non profit, is back with more community developing resources as many businesses attempt to recover during the pandemic.
Loretto Hospital President & CEO George Miller publicly posted a video announcing vaccinations at his church, Valley Kingdom Ministries International in Oak Forest, more than 30 miles away from the West Side community that Miller said in December needed these vaccines the most.
A man was charged Sunday with shooting and killing another man on the city's West Side, and then crashing into a squad car and another vehicle as he drove several miles.
The year was 1913 - Woodrow Wilson became president, the population of the United States was only 97 million, and Dolores Quiroz was born.
It was an amazing day Sunday for a single mom of four from Chicago's West Side.
Police late Wednesday issued a community alert about a spree of carjackings and armed robberies that have been happening around the city in recent days – including one that occurred right downtown early Wednesday morning.
Officers shot and wounded a suspect in the Homan Square neighborhood late Monday, police said.
Monday is the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and a day before, a group West Side community leaders got a head start on the day of service that honors the Dr. King's legacy.
Two men were shot Wednesday inside a community center on Chicago's West Side.
A Chicago pastor and victims' advocate was offering help Sunday for a West Side mother who was charged after her seven children were found alone in an apartment.
In another string of instances of an ongoing crime crisis in Chicago, police on Tuesday put out two community alerts about carjackings in two different areas of the city.
"We were seeing it once COVID hit immediately Austin and West Garfield Park were hit hardest."
A police standoff was under way Wednesday night on the city's West Side.
"When the dust settles on the ground, we are boldly optimistic. The 37th Ward won't be silent or stopped."
