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CHICAGO — Since moving to Bronzeville in 2007, Vanessa Harris has seen the many vacant lots in the South Side neighborhood get scooped up by developers and turned into $800,000 townhomes, some of them right outside her window.

PITTSBURGH — I've always believed one of the strengths of the Steelers organization was their family-first atmosphere. Art Rooney II is a present, involved team owner. He is at the team's South Side facility every day, just as his late father, Dan, was. Every indication is Rooney cares about his…

Devasish Nandepu, 23, had been in Chicago less than two weeks when he was killed in a Walmart parking lot in Chatham.

A 17-year-old boy was killed and a 15-year-old boy was wounded in separate shootings about the same time Sunday night on the South Side.

The Atkinsons and the Bernsteins are South Side families who have had a role in aspects of Chicago’s history.

Incumbents Michelle Harris (8th), Anthony Beale (9th) and Jeanette Taylor (20th) had comfortable leads Tuesday evening. With a wide field of candidates, at least some races are expected to be headed to April 4 runoffs, preliminary returns show.

Two people were found fatally shot in a Chatham apartment complex on the South Side, police said.

The Gyrls in the H.O.O.D. Foundation has opened a new health services center on Chicago’s South Side.

CHICAGO — The Soul Street Collective band was tearing up the Black Fire Brigade’s fundraiser on Chicago’s South Side Sunday when Mayor Lori Lightfoot walked in the door.

Also among the wounded were a Cook County corrections officer and a woman on the Near South Side.

Nine candidates for mayor made some of their final pitches, trying to get souls to the polls across the city with two days to go before the balloting ends.