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The boy, Nazia Banks, was playing with other children outside of his home in the 8800 block of South Brandon Avenue when his father called over to him to come inside just after 10 p.m., police said.

A 35-year-old man died after he was shot in the head and chest on the South Side about midnight, on the 10100 block of South Michigan Avenue, police said. The man, identified as Dwayne Billingsley, was approached by someone who emerged from a gangway, police said.

A man was shot in the back about 2:40 a.m. on the 1300 block of West 108th Street, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said. Circumstances surrounding the shooting weren't clear. The man was taken to Christ Medical Center, Gaines said.

A 19-year-old man refused to cooperate with investigators after getting shot in the abdomen in the Logan Square neighborhood, police said. He was shot on the 2700 block of West Francis Place about 2:15 a.m. Additional information about the shooting wasn't available.

About 12:15 a.m., a 29-year-old man's head was grazed by a bullet at 61st Street and Champlain Avenue,  Gaines said. He walked into the Bernard Mitchell Medical Center at the University of Chicago about 12:30 a.m., Gaines said.

The city’s Department of Housing and Economic Development recently announced that it will acquire the former Near North High School site, an 11-acre property at 1450 N. Larrabee St. that sits at the top of Cabrini’s once-notorious public housing block.

If the high school property does fall into CHA’s care, the site would be a timely addition to the agency’s growing portfolio around the intersection of Clybourn and Larrabee.

In December, CHA acquired the former White Way Sign & Maintenance Co. site, 1317 N. Clybourn Ave., located across the street from the high school site. The $8.8 million property was...

...transferred to the agency by Target in exchange for a former public housing parcel at Larrabee and Division, where the company is currently planning to develop a 150,000-square-foot store...

CHA also owns a property just south of the school at 1340 N. Larrabee, next door to Stanton Park and the long-standing Northside Strangers Home Baptist Church. That property was once the site of a public housing high-rise — one of eight that made up the now-demolished William Green Homes.

...of about 100, Federal Protective Service officers stood in front of their vehicles next to 525 W. Van Buren, a building that houses Chicago Immigration Court and ICE Office of Chief Counsel. Fifty Chicago...