Chicago was an obvious draw for poor, southern African-Americans. Up the Mississippi from Memphis, the rapidly expanding metropolis offered an escape from the cotton plantations of the South.

Brandon Z. Miller, 25, presided over a crew that bought more than 100 guns, some used in a murderous South Side street war, ...

A man between the ages of 35 and 45 was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting on the city’s Far South Side, with no one currently in custody.

CHICAGO (CBS) — A 12-year-old girl is dead after a shooting inside a Calumet Heights home on Sunday night. Just before 8:30 p.m., Chicago police said officers responded to a home in the 9200 block of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two women were wounded in a shooting on the South Side Friday morning, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 4:45 a.m. 900-block of East 45th Street.

Islamic and Chicago history. The founding imam, Mikal Ramadan, was unable to attend the tour, but said later that the mosque has been an important site as Black Muslims on the South Side deepened ...

A teenage boy is hospitalized after being gunned down in an alley Saturday afternoon on Chicago's South Side, authorities said.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two women were wounded in a shooting on the South Side Friday morning, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 4:45 a.m. 900-block of East 45th Street. Police said ...

Two men were shot in the head and killed Tuesday morning in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.

“This is a play that’s about the South Side of Chicago—not just in the 1950s, but the South Side of Chicago that began at the dawn of the Great Migration and continues to live with us today,” said ...

"Sub-areas" within neighborhoods like Chatham inspire a strong sense of pride, while in Englewood, neighbors are working to ...