Pilsen

Work is beginning on a new housing project in Pilsen on the West Side.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Pedro Martinez will be the next head of Chicago Public Schools, becoming the first Latino to be Chief Executive Officer of the nation's third-largest school district.

"He was disabled. He couldn’t even really walk, much less run. He was in a church and he had just finished eating."

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker led a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning to celebrate the Ray Castro Parking Lot Plaza at the National Museum of Mexican Art.

Chicago police are warning business owners on the Lower West Side about a string of burglaries reported in August.

The victims were standing on a sidewalk near Peter Cooper Dual Language Academy around 6 p.m. Saturday when they were shot.

A woman said she was walking near the 2100 block of South Ashland Avenue when she saw a car pull up and heard someone say, “Shoot her.” “I just froze,” she said. “I don’t remember anything.”

"My mom was born and raised in Chicago and is cultishly loyal to Lawrence’s fried shrimp. She now lives in Utah, where good seafood is hard to come by," wrote Hank Hansen in the essay that beat out 600 others.

A pop-up pet food pantry will be held Friday morning in the Pilsen neighborhood, courtesy of Chicago Animal Care and Control.

Two dozen residents protested on Saturday against the opening of Headquarters Beercade and Color Cocktail Factory in Pilsen.