The nonprofit bought a former South Chicago church building and will renovate it into the Full Circle Performing Arts Center. Dance classes, culinary education, financial literacy courses and event rentals are planned for the center starting in September.
The multi-hyphenate West Side native comes home for a two-day fest featuring screenings of his films, a comedy showcase and a bid whist tournament to raise money for charity.
A live-work building for young Black residents, a co-op snack manufacturing facility and a restaurant in a collectively owned South Shore building are among six grantees in the inaugural round of the Wealth Our Way grant program.
Unions of UChicago faculty, nurses and Lab School teachers called for the university to ban warrantless immigration operations. They also want the university's emergency alert system to notify people of agents' activity on or near campus.
The 61st Street pizzeria is closed just over a year after its debut, with its owner citing high costs and low traffic. Lynn's will still offer catering, and it plans to launch a pasta meal kit business next month.
About 30 acres of the 440-acre former steel mill are polluted beyond modern standards, developers said as they submitted their cleanup plan to state regulators. Plans include capping the entire site with asphalt, concrete or clean soil.
The building averaged more than one emergency call a day over the almost five years before a high-profile federal raid. The raid led to even more calls to police.
With the Obama Presidential Center set to open next year, Maxwell Evans joins the Block Club Chicago podcast to discuss how neighbors feel as it nears completion — and what Chicagoans really think about its look.