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As migrants move into shelters, surrounding communities respond: ‘They have value’

CHICAGO -- On a recent sunny afternoon in Chicago's Woodlawn area, more than a dozen men from Venezuela gathered in a parking lot outside a shuttered elementary school that is now a shelter for migrants, kicking a soccer ball and blaring music from cars.

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Three people shot in Woodlawn

Two men and a woman were in the 6700 block of South Eberhart Avenue when gunfire erupted about 1:30 a.m.

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Rise of 63rd Street continues with plan for $48 million ‘Woodlawn Social’

With the Obama Presidential Center rising to the east and the redevelopment of the 63rd and Cottage Grove intersection, it seems as if a new era for the street is finally at hand.

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Man killed, woman wounded in Woodlawn shooting

The man, 29, was driving with a 22-year-old woman when two men walked toward their car and began shooting.

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Man fatally shot in Woodlawn home

About an hour earlier, another man was shot to death less than four miles away in the Oakland neighborhood.

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City development agency backs housing plan for 63rd Street in Woodlawn

The plan would mix subsidized and market-rate homes on a commercial street plagued by vacant lots.

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Chicago police officer responding to burglary call in Woodlawn is wounded in knife attack

The officer was at a home where a break-in was reported in the 6100 block of South Vernon Avenue. He suffered minor cuts and was hospitalized in good condition.

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Three new libraries headed to the South and West sides

The libraries in Back of the Yards, Humboldt Park and Woodlawn “will provide crucial resources and support to our residents,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.

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1 killed, 2 children among 17 wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago

Two children were wounded in separate shootings Saturday at homes on the South Side. A 3-year-old boy was shot in Calumet Heights and a 6-year-old girl was shot about two miles away in Woodlawn.

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2 kids wounded in separate shootings at South Side homes

The first on Saturday left a 3-year-old boy wounded at a home in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. Hours later a a 6-year-old girl and a 33-year-old man were shot at a home in Woodlawn.

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Man found fatally shot in Woodlawn

The 39-year-old was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 6700 block of South Rhodes Avenue.

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As real estate giant prepares to open first office on Chicago's South Side, residents feel torn about the influx of development

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.

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Brewpub, daycare — along with new housing — among proposals to transform vacant lots on West, South sides

The city is seeking input until the end of February on the potential transit-oriented developments in East Garfield Park and Woodlawn near the CTA’s Green Line.

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Police issue citations as activists attempt to enter shuttered Woodlawn school housing newly arrived immigrants

The city’s plans to transform the shuttered James Wadsworth Elementary School into a temporary shelter for migrants seeking asylum has been met with controversy in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood.

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City opens temporary shelter for asylum seekers in Woodlawn despite effort to block bus moving them

At least 3 busloads of recently arrived immigrants were dropped off at a once-shuttered South Side school that has been transformed into a shelter. Two protesters tried to stop a bus from reaching the former Wadsworth Elementary School.

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Man dies days after Woodlawn shooting

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.

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Woodlawn residents share deep frustrations as city outlines plans to open temporary shelter for asylum seekers in shuttered school

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.

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I am that immigrant you fear

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.

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City delays opening of South Side shelter for asylum seekers amid community concerns, according to alderperson

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

Woodlawn immigrant shelter sounds good, but give community the full story on city’s plan

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.

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14-year-old boy and man shot and wounded in Woodlawn

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 Tribune

Influx of migrants to Chicago places a strain on city resources; city moving forward with temporary shelter

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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Law center shows benefits of cash bail reform, South Side school to become temporary shelter for migrants and more in your Chicago news roundup

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

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Shuttered Woodlawn elementary school to house newly arrived asylum seekers

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?”

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For Chicago artist Rahmaan Statik, painting ‘Black Panther’ murals was ‘a childhood dream come true’

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.

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