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May, 2012
Despite the "street heat" that congressmen Bobby Rush and Danny Davis, and dozens of protesters brought to Metra during a march outside its offices on Thursday, the commuter rail company has not yet buckled to demands that it rebid contracts for a major construction project so more African American companies are included. The $133 million project, called the Englewood Flyover, will take place in...
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May, 2012
Fifteenth Ward Alderman Toni Foulkes was one of seven council members to vote "nay" on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's controversial $1.7 billion infrastructure trust last week, in large part because of, well, trust.
After the ordinance sailed through city council, Foulkes told the Chicago Sun-Times that residents of Englewood--who comprise a big chunk of her ward--simply "don't trust the Trust".
Foulkes...
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May, 2012
Fifteenth Ward Alderman Toni Foulkes was one of seven council members to vote "nay" on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's controversial $1.7 billion infrastructure trust last week, in large part because of, well, trust.
After the ordinance sailed through city council, Foulkes told the Chicago Sun-Times that residents of Englewood--who comprise a big chunk of her ward--simply "don't trust the Trust".
Foulkes...
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October, 2007
The murder of 11-year-old Ryan Harris in July 1998 became national news when two boys, ages 7 and 8, were charged with first-degree murder; the charges later were dropped. It also focused attention on the troubled South Side neighborhood of Englewood.
In 1998, the Englewood Police District, which includes Englewood and West Englewood, recorded 56 murders, the city's second highest total....
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October, 2007
In the Englewood Police District (7th), which includes Englewood and West Englewood, resident attendance at beat community meetings trailed the citywide average last year. Fewer than 17 residents attended the average meeting from March 1998 through March 1999. About 26 people attend each beat meeting citywide, according to Wesley G. Skogan of the Chicago Community Policing Evaluation Consortium...
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October, 2007
The following telephone survey of 304 residents in the Englewood Police District was conducted by graduate students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
How would you characterize the level of crime in your neighborhood?
High 101
Somewhat high 45
Medium 93
Low 42
Have you been the victim of a violent crime?
w Yes 60
w No 211
What was the nature of...
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October, 2007
Mario Perry, 20, Air Force recruit
Reporters often paint a grim picture of life in Englewood. Whenever the South Side community makes the news, the story always seems to be about poverty, crime and despair.
Twenty-year-old Mario Perry sees something different. The lifelong Chicagoan, who has lived in Englewood since he was in preschool, knows a community of working men and women taking...
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October, 2007
1840: A settler named Wilcox claims land in a swampy prairie area seven miles south of what is now the Loop. Part of the area lies on a ridge that would become Vincennes Avenue.
1852: Railroad companies begin laying tracks and building stations in the area. The intersection of 63rd and LaSalle streets takes on the name "Chicago Junction" or "Junction Grove." An early resident reports looking...
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September, 2007
Sixteenth Ward Alderman Shirley A. Coleman remembers when some used to call her South Side community "the murder capital of the world." Sixty-eight people were killed in the 7th Police District in 1989, the first year of Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration. That number jumped to 91 the next year, then 99.
In 1993, Daley launched the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy as a pilot...
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