Woodlawn

A 6-year-old boy was shot inside a West Woodlawn apartment. He was transported to an area hospital in critical condition.

The Archdiocese of Chicago and the Carmelites will pay a reported $1.75 million to a woman who claimed she was repeatedly sexually abused as a girl by a priest at St. Cyril Catholic Church on the South Side.

A 13-year-old boy died days after he was shot while he and at least three others tried to break into a parked vehicle in Woodlawn on the South Side, police said.

Woodlawn community organizers are questioning the Archdiocese of Chicago’s decision to ban public masses at Shrine of Christ the King Catholic Church and worry officials may be planning to shutter the historic landmark building.

Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks has been living and sleeping on top of a rooftop since November 2021, trying to raise $35 million to build a new South Side center, which would include a trade school, classrooms, restaurants, theater, gym and an Olympic-sized pool.

Mount Carmel High School will remain an all-boys school.

A man was shot during an argument Saturday night in West Woodlawn on the South Side.

A boy was shot and killed early Thursday in the Woodlawn neighborhood.

A cultural preservation organization announced Tuesday that Emmett Till's Chicago house will receive a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

A 14-year-old boy suffered a graze wound to the abdomen Friday night in Woodlawn.

"There should never be a time in one of the wealthiest cities in the world where the life expectancy of Black people in our city is 10 years less — 10 years less! — than any other demographic," Chicago Mayor Lightfoot said.