The Latest Breaking News from Englewood

The Englewood, N.J., native was an innovator in his sport.

Heavy rains are lashing the Cayman Islands as forecasters warn that a nearby cluster of thunderstorms could soon become a major hurricane en route to the southeast U.S. Hurricane watches were in effect for Florida’s Tampa Bay and from Englewood to Indian Pass, as well as for eastern Mexico from…

The fire, which possibly was started by a child playing with a lighter, erupted about 7:15 a.m. in a multiunit apartment building in the 500 block of West Marquette Road.

About 10:45 p.m., the man, 40, and another person were arguing on the mezzanine level at the Garfield station in the 200 block of West Garfield Boulevard when the man took out a knife and was shot in the right shoulder, Chicago police said.

Mayor Brandon Johnson plans a range of resources, including another round of guaranteed basic income, targeted this time to four neighborhoods.

Lorenz Elion, 23, who works in real estate, knows people from his neighborhood who’ve been killed and others in prison for murder. But Englewood, he says, is home.

Brian Beals was convicted in 1988, following the death of the child and the injuring of his mother in Chicago’s Englewood area

The unidentified 50-year-old was shot in his chest while in the back seat of a vehicle Tuesday morning in the 6600 block of South Hamilton Avenue, Chicago police said.

More than eight miles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on the South Side were brightened with lights, inflatables, ornaments and wreaths.