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Pilsen group partners with N.C. credit union to save failed Chicago bank's mortgages
A Pilsen neighborhood group has partnered with a North Carolina-based federal credit union to acquire almost 1,100 Chicago-area mortgage loans, with the goal of preserving homeownership in several largely Hispanic communities. Self-Help Federal Credit...Tags: Finance, Financial and Business Services, Pilsen, Little Village, Chicago Mortgages
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Community Close-Up: Brighton Park
As the second fastest-growing neighborhood in the city, Brighton Park is home to a large proportion of Chicago's low-income families and children. Dramatic changes in the last decade have transformed a previously predominant Polish, Irish, Lithuanian, and...Tags: Family, United Way
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Chicago surpasses 400 homicides
RedEyeChicago on Friday surpassed 400 homicides for the year--the fastest the city has done so in nearly 10 years. On Friday morning, two men were found beaten to death in the trunk of a vehicle in the 2400 block of West 45th Street in Brighton Park, officials...Tags: Murder, Garfield Park, Calumet Heights
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Bus, car crash sends 3 to hospitals
Three people were taken to hospitals in good condition following a collision involving a CTA bus and a car this afternoon in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the city’s Southwest Side. A southbound Western Avenue bus No. 49 was stopped when it was...
Tags: Chicago Fire Department, Hospitals and Clinics, Chicago Transit Authority
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Five hurt in SW Side bus, car crash
Five people have been taken to hospitals, including one who was seriously hurt, following a crash with a CTA bus and a car on the Southwest Side this morning. About a dozen more people are still being evaluated on the scene of the crash that happened...
Tags: Chicago Fire Department, Hospitals and Clinics, Chicago Transit Authority
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West Nile Virus cases increase in U.S.
WGN NewsWest Nile cases in the United States are 40 percent up from last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there are 1,590 confirmed cases nationally. There have been 66 deaths so far this year. More than 70 percent of the cases were...Tags: Chicago, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Archer Heights, Viral Diseases and Infections, Health Organizations
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Ten wounded in shootings across city
Tribune reporterTwo 16-year-old boys and eight others were wounded by gunfire across Chicago Friday night and Saturday morning, according to police. One of the teens was shot in the 1800 block of West 18th Street in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood on the West Side...Tags: Shootings, Injuries and Wounds, Pilsen, Portage Park, Chicago Police Department
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4 dead, 19 wounded in overnight shootings in city
Tribune reporterFour men were killed and at least 19 other people, including a 16-year-old boy, were wounded in overnight shootings across the city, according to police. Police responded to the violence on a steamy night punctuated by the constant calls of illegal...Tags: Shootings, Injuries and Wounds, Health, Little Village, Hospitals and Clinics
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Boy, 13, shot; friend says he saved her life
WGN NewsOf the eight people shot overnight, the youngest victim was a 13-year-old boy who was shot on his own front porch. Deneysi Valdovinos, 14, says she was sitting with Rony Monzon, 13, on the porch in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood when three shots...Tags: Chicago Tribune
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Greater Grand Crossing, Lower West Side see 2 homicides
RedEyeGreater Grand Crossing and the Lower West Side each recorded two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. In Greater Grand Crossing, a 30-year-old man was shot to death Tuesday in the 7000 block of South Perry...Tags: Ashburn, Roseland, Auburn Gresham, Greater Grand Crossing, Murder
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Man killed in hit-and-run on Southwest Side
Tribune reporterA 36-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run crash in the Brighton Park neighborhood early Friday morning, according to Chicago police. Eugenio Campos, of the 3900 block of South Campbell, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 1:41 a.m., a... -
1 dead, 8 wounded in shootings across city
Tribune reporterOne man died and eight others were wounded in separate shooting attacks across the city Friday night and Saturday morning, police said. A 26-year-old man was shot on the 1300 block of West Washburne Avenue in the University Village / Little Italy...Tags: Humboldt Park, Ashburn, Shootings, Injuries and Wounds, Health
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