Pullman

A 30-year-old man was shot Tuesday night in the West Pullman neighborhood, authorities said. The shooting happened about 9:45 p.m. in the 500 block of West 119th Street, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said. The man was...

The first time they met, neither of the Far South Side school principals was sure what to expect. Taquia Hylton's school, West Pullman Elementary, is slated to be shut as part of the district's plan to close 54 schools in June. Its approximately 300...

A wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • Three young men who police say belonged to two different gangs walked into Roseland Hospital overnight with gunshot wounds, each shot within blocks of each other in a pair of West Pullman...

A wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • Eduardo Jaramillo ran up and down the stairs of the West Pullman apartment building screaming for help. Then shots rang out and Jaramillo fell, shot in the head. The 23-year-old collapsed...

A wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • A man crashed through a chain-linked fence and into a home after he was shot while driving through the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, authorities said. Dane Whitfield, 31,...

Eight people were shot Thursday afternoon and Friday morning from the Old Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side to the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said. A man, 34, was dropped off at Our Lady of the Resurrection...

Two men were shot, one fatally, in the West Pullman neighborhood this evening, authorities said. A 37-year-old man was dead on the scene in the 12000 block of South Normal Avenue following the shooting just before 8:30 p.m., said Chicago Police News...

A group of Chicago residents and preservationists are working to win federal approval to turn the entire Pullman neighborhood on Chicago's Far South Side into a national park. If approved by Congress or proclaimed a national monument by the president,...

Speaking publicly for the first time since Chicago Public Schools announced that more than 50 schools are to close, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the motive behind the plan is to ensure that all children in Chicago receive a quality education. Emanuel faced...

The Goodman Theatre announced its 2013-14 season Wednesday, a slate that includes a new play by Rebecca Gilman, a blues-infused Cheryl L. West drama about Pullman porters, Mary Zimmerman's "The White Snake" and the Chicago premiere of the sexy David...

Quarterbacks Aaron Bailey, Bolingbrook, Sr. Quinn Baker, Cary-Grove, Sr. Jack Beneventi, Benet, So. Don Butkus, Mount Carmel, Sr. Andrew Clifford, Lake Forest, Sr. T.J. Edwards, Lakes, Jr. A.J. Fish, Grayslake North, Sr. Austin Green,...

President Barack Obama will come to Chicago on Friday and talk about guns, heeding the calls from crime-ridden communities to make the city a priority in his national anti-violence agenda. But young African-American men, those most likely to be hit by...