Little Italy

A city panel recommended Friday that Chicago permanently remove its three Christopher Columbus statues and the Balbo Monument in Burnham Park, and consider altering or removing nearly 40 other monuments.

With multiple festivals, parades and events happening throughout the city this weekend, there's something for visitors and residents alike.

A security guard was among four men who were wounded during a shootout Monday night in the Little Italy neighborhood.

A suspect is in custody after a Chicago police officer was shot and seriously wounded Friday morning in the University Village neighborhood on the Near West Side.

The FBI is looking for three people who robbed a Chase Bank at gunpoint Tuesday in the Little Italy neighborhood.

A UIC employee saw someone throw a brick through an exterior window at the building at 800 S. Halsted St. around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

A lawsuit was filed against the City of Chicago and Mayor Lori Lightfoot Wednesday, claiming she used obscene language and defamed a former Chicago Park District lawyer who was involved in the Christopher Columbus statue controversy in 2021.

A historic Chicago school finally solved a 150-year-old mystery of who designed the distinctive building back in the 1860's.

The city of Chicago has cited five businesses for failing to enforce the city's COVID-19 indoor mask mandate.

An annual festival in the Little Italy neighborhood has been canceled for a second straight year, largely to avoid further stressing vendors already struggling to find workers, organizers said.

A 25-year-old man was riding a bike on Racine Avenue when he swerved into a CTA bus and struck the right rear tires, police said.

An Italian-American organization has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the Chicago Park District to return a Christopher Columbus statue to its pedestal in the city’s Little Italy neighborhood, officials said Wednesday.

A Christopher Columbus statue on Chicago’s South Side that was left standing after two other Columbus statues were removed last week may also be taken down, a City Council member says.

A 35-year-old man was shot in the backyard of a home in Little Village on Saturday, one of at least 36 people shot so far this weekend in Chicago.

During an eight-hour period from Friday night until Saturday morning, 24 people in Chicago were shot.

Chicago Police shot and wounded a man on Sunday afternoon in Little Village.

Nearly a dozen elementary school students were taken to hospitals Wednesday after pepper spray was discharged in a classroom.