The Latest Breaking News from Woodlawn

On Jan. 3, Dominique Nash, 31, was traveling in a car with a 14-year-old boy in the 6600 block of South Greenwood Avenue when someone fired shots from the sidewalk.

Plans to repurpose the former James Wadsworth Elementary School in Woodlawn into a temporary shelter for asylum seekers has been met with controversy. City officials delayed opening the site to allow for more community feedback.

There are valid concerns about the plan to house migrants in a closed school in Woodlawn. The mayor didn’t give our alderperson advance warning. But it’s not as if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave Chicago any warning when he sent migrants to our city during Christmas.

On Friday afternoon, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office released a statement saying that a firm date had not been set on when the shelter would open at the former James Wadsworth Elementary School in Woodlawn.

Before the shelter opens, city officials ought to first schedule a meeting that fully alerts the neighborhood on what is happening — and what will happen — with the facility.

They were traveling in a car in the 6600 block of South Greenwood Avenue when someone fired at them from the sidewalk, police said.

CHICAGO — The strain on Chicago’s resources from a continued influx of migrants was underscored this week when Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked the state for $54 million in emergency funding and her administration confirmed it will open a shelter at a former school in Woodlawn to temporarily house asylum-seekers.

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But Ald. Jeanette Taylor threatens to protest over city’s decision about her South Side ward: “They didn’t go about this the right way,” she said. “Did they ask Lincoln Park? Did they ask Hyde Park?”

He used one he’d painted in 2020 on a building in South Chicago to get Marvel and Disney to commission him to do a ‘Wakanda Forever’ promotional mural in Woodlawn.

Eric Harrell, 38, handed over his cell phone and attempted to start driving away when one of the robbers opened fire.