Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share Community leaders in South Shore say they were left in the dark about plans to convert a shuttered high school into a shelter for families seeking asylum as Chicago ...

"I'm outraged, and I don't understand why our community was chosen," another woman said. Passionate South Shore neighbors would not let city leaders share their plans to turn the former high ...

Authorities accuse Dwayne Jenkins, 45, of South Shore, of attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of a man near the ...

With the assistance of University of Chicago’s Office of Civic Engagement and the Harris School of Public Policy, the compact of community organizations found: South Shore has a high vacancy ...

CHICAGO — South Shore residents say they are standing up to crime and a surge of squatters ... team leader of the South Merrill Community Garden. “We had addicted people in the building ...

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A Cook County sheriff's deputy strolls outside a south ... South Shore, with its rising violent crime rate, can scarcely afford. But long-term tenants have a stabilizing effect on a community, ...