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This Chicago Neighborhood With Beaches Is Sadly One To Avoid (Or Explore With Caution)

Although this Chicago neighborhood is home to South Shore Beach and Rainbow Beach Park, its safety ratings are concerning.
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Lead pipe problem worst in Chicago’s majority Black and Latino neighborhoods

As Gina Ramirez buckled her 11-year-old son into her car for their drive to school, she handed him a plastic water bottle. “I would love to be able to have him put a cup under the tap if he was ...
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Community gardener beautifies one of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods

CHICAGO -- Edgar Florentino is from Chicagos Back of the Yards neighborhood. In 2020, he decided to become a community gardener to beautify the area he grew up in. "Back of the Yards, definitely is a ...
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They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.

Archie Collins went to sleep the night of the raid like he often does: on the floor and hungry. He was up on the fifth floor of the five-story brick building at 7500 S. South Shore Drive, in Apartment ...

Chicago’s “worst landlord” sells off vacant lots, but city’s big auction falls flat

Only about a third of Suzie B. Wilson's 800 parcels sold, generating $3.4 million, significantly less than anticipated.

Grassroots resistance swells in the wake of the immigration crackdown in Chicago

Chicago is no longer the main focus of the federal immigration crackdown. For one neighborhood group, the intense enforcement activity was a test of resistance tactics they developed eight years ago.