The Latest Breaking News from Little Village

The 17-year-old son, shot in the ankle, hid behind parked cars and fled to a neighbor’s house in the 2600 block of South Millard Avenue, according to a police report.

The boy was shot in the chest in the 2200 block of South California Avenue, police said. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

CHICAGO — For as long as she can remember, Martha Armenta felt invisible in the only country she knew as home. She grew up in Little Village, where her parents settled after moving to Chicago from Sinaloa, Mexico, escaping poverty and violence, she said.

Several in the group of about 40 vendors have tried different means of remaining in business after their half of the mall shuttered, but business isn’t the same and they feel isolated without one another.

Johnathan Salgado, 22, was shot in the 2400 block of South Homan Avenue, police said.

Chicago hosted an international conference on teaching chess to detainees in jails and prisons. Officials from the International Chess Federation and corrections agencies from around the world are exploring how chess can be used to help rehabilitate incarcerated people.

The work by Chicago-based artist Salvador Jiménez-Flores was made after Flores won the Chicago Sculpture Exhibit’s Richard Hunt Award. It’s one of 42 the exhibit is installing this month.

The boy’s mother was next door at a medical clinic with one of her other children and was monitoring Garcia and his 7-month-old twin brothers on a baby monitor

Corporations get subsidies. Mom-and-pop stores should get them too, to be able to offer a variety of fresh and affordable food in areas that are food deserts, student Monica Jimenez Jaimes writes.

The drivers of the school bus and the car were hospitalized in serious to critical condition, the Chicago Fire Department said.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced she will not seek reelection, Chicagoans celebrated Earth Day at a Little Village community garden, and more in our best pictures of the last week.