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CHICAGO — Te’Jaan Ali was playing basketball in a school gym on the South Side of Chicago when he started feeling hot. The heat in the gym — which didn’t have air conditioning — was likely just as bad as the sweltering temperatures outside, which reached 90 degrees on July…

A new year is a good time for resolutions, and in 2023, America’s health care providers should follow the example of St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center on Chicago's South Side.

Leaders from the civil rights organization’s educational arm — PUSH for Excellence — announced a plan to emphasize technology education as they unveiled the agenda for an upcoming scholarship celebration.

“I’m just grateful to have something under the tree for the kids,” one mother said.

Joseph Stancak, who lived a private, frugal life in working-class Gage Park, was buried in a pauper’s grave.

The designation will help preserve over 200 historical assets in Bronzeville and bring up to $1 million annually to the area over a 10- to 15-year span.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

In the spirit of the holiday, Pastor Kenyatta Smith’s Another Chance Church hands out more than 17,000 toys and puts smiles on children’s faces.

The 2-year-old, found with the bodies of Javonni Jenkins, 27, and Curtis Hardman, 79, in Jenkins’ South Side apartment in early December, is now in the care of an aunt.