Near West News

CHICAGO - Three employees of a Michelin-rated restaurant on the Near West Side are in critical condition after being shot as several men tried to steal a car behind the restaurant Thursday night.

CHICAGO - Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck a University of Illinois at Chicago student last month on the Near West Side.

The audience applauds during the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights 2nd Annual Immigration Integration Summit at Malcom X College on Saturday.

Half of these shootings took place after midnight each night. Five of the shootings occurred early Saturday and another five took place in the early morning hours Sunday.

Courtesy of TED MAZOLA Ted Mazola's New West Realty Group has specialized in taking neighborhoods and cleaning them up.

On the Near West Side of Chicago, there used to be an annual saint's feast on the grounds of a Roman Catholic church.

CHICAGO - Power was shut off to part of the CTA Blue Line Sunday morning as fire personnel investigate reports of smoke in a subway in the River West neighborhood.

CHICAGO - The Jane Addams Hull House Association could be in danger of shutting down, according to a published report.

The Cook County Health and Hospitals System hopes to partner with NorthShore University Health System in a three-year deal to train emergency room physicians and net the county nearly $565,000. The proposed contract would create an emergency medical residency program for doctors of Evanston-based NorthShore at Stroger Hospital on the Near West ... (more)

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, to Fraser Robinson III,[3] a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian , a secretary at Spiegel's catalog store.[4] Her mother was a full-time homemaker until Michelle entered high school.[5] The Robinson and Shields families can trace their ... (more)