The Latest Breaking News from Far South Side

A 22,000-square-foot park is the latest installment in the city’s team-up with nonprofits to reimagine “underutilized” spaces, though its planners say it’s a gateway to much more.

Far South Community Development Corp. is one of six finalists for the Pritzker Traubert Foundation $10 million Chicago Prize 2022.

Kids enjoy the final days of summer, Chicago police honor fallen officers, the Sky reach the end of the line and more in our best unseen pics of the week.

A 19-year-old suburban man is facing felony charges for allegedly driving toward a police sergeant, and another man had his car impounded — but otherwise, the mayhem went on for two straight nights.

The illegal street takeovers, organized and fueled by social media, resulted in clashes with police late Friday on the Far South Side, but the mayhem ended up in the heart of downtown.

CHICAGO — Officials pulled an invasive silver carp from the waters of Lake Calumet on the city’s Far South Side Thursday.

They were in the 2000 block of West 87th Street when a black sedan drove by and two people fired gunshots, striking all three of them.

The shootings occurred across the city, from the Kelvin Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side to South Deering on the Far South Side.

Daniel Golden, who hails from a family of cops, “was doing what he could to keep people apart” and had even stopped someone from chasing the man who minutes later grabbed a gun and fired off 19 rounds, Asst. State’s Atty. James Murphy said in court Tuesday.