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.

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

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 ...