CHICAGO (CBS) – More than 100 years ago, North Lawndale was predominately Jewish. On Wednesday, members of the Jewish community went to meet with young people, who now call North Lawndale home.

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Members of Chicago's Jewish community will partner with neighbors in North Lawndale to find new meaning in the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Part of the observance includes building ...

CHICAGO — Earlier this month, 40 people gathered in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood to design a sukkah.But they hadn’t come together only to build a hut for the upcoming Jewish festival of ...

I grew up in Albany Park, a few blocks from where, according to law enforcement, Elias Rodriguez left Chicago on May 21 with ...

“A lot of the Jewish symbolism ... embarking on building a thousand homes here in North Lawndale.” Added Charles Jenkins, of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, “By spring, we could ...

The Sukkah Design Festival is a bridge between North Lawndale’s history as one of Chicago’s most prominent Jewish neighborhoods in the first half of the 20th century, to a majority-Black ...

in North Lawndale. The festival ... which was built in the mid-1920s as a synagogue for Jewish immigrants who came to Chicago to escape antisemitism in their native Romania.

My grandma Bess, who grew up in North Lawndale, had to change her name to Betty in the 1940s and ’50s just to get a job as a Jewish woman in Chicago. My grandpa Sol from the Austin neighborhood ...

Max Long was one of the Israeli soldiers who responded to the massacre on Oct. 7, 2023. He remained in combat long enough to be part of the force that entered Rafah at the southern end of the Gaza ...