Lamont Brown, who "junks" and works on old cars, saw the gold, old-model Buick LeSabre Custom parked near the corner of East 84th Street and South Dante for "like a year or two, and nobody ever moved it or touched it."

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on September 16, 2008.

An employee of the city's revenue department was shot Monday while applying the Denver boot to a car near 84th Street and Dante Avenue, police said.

Published by The Southtown Star on September 16, 2008.

The shooting occurred on the 8400 block of South Dante Avenue on Monday morning, according to a Calumet Area police detective lieutenant, who said they are on the scene as of 12:15 p.m.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 15, 2008.

The shooting occurred on the 8400 block of South Dante Avenue on Monday morning, according to a Calumet Area lieutenant, who said they are on the scene as of 12:15 p.m.

Published by Fox News Chicago on September 15, 2008.

The shooting occurred on the 8400 block of South Dante Avenue on Monday morning, according to a Calumet Area lieutenant, who said they are on the scene as of 12:15 p.m.

Published by NBC 5 on September 15, 2008.

A Department of Revenue employee was shot and wounded this morning while booting a car on the 8400 block of South Dante Ave. It's not clear if the shooter was also the car owner. The city employee was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious condition. [WBBM]

Published by Chicagoist on September 15, 2008.

The shooting occurred in the 8400 block of South Dante Avenue, she said.

Published by Chicago Tribune on September 15, 2008.

The shooting occurred on the 8400 block of South Dante Avenue on Monday morning, according to a Calumet Area lieutenant, who said they are on the scene as of 12:15 p.m.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on September 15, 2008.

Crews were out trying to repair the break today near 85th and Dorchester.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 5, 2008.

Then again, what we don't need is what Stroger has offered in terms of leadership. He runs a government that spits in the eye of the taxpayers who support it. It is an 8th Ward fiefdom in which friends, relatives and precinct workers get high-paying, often six-figure jobs whether they have credentials to do the work or not.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on July 2, 2008.

Carlos Hensley is charged with first degree murder and attempted murder. He is accused of fatally shooting 21-year-old Kiana Green as she sat in a car at a stop light in Calumet Heights neighborhood on May 24. Green died two days later.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on June 26, 2008.

Shots fired from outside hit a man in a bedroom Monday night in an Avalon Park community house on the South Side. The man was in a bedroom of a house at the 1600 block of East 84th Street when someone outside fired shots and struck the man, 27, in the left leg at 10:15 p.m., according to South Chicago District police.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on June 24, 2008.

Shots fired from outside hit a man in a bedroom Monday night in an Avalon Park community house on the South Side. The man was in a bedroom of a house at the 1600 block of East 84th Street when someone outside fired shots and struck the man, 27, in the left leg at 10:15 p.m., according to South Chicago District police.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on June 24, 2008.

A book analyzing the U.S. Census data, Poverty and Place by Paul Jargowsky, discovered the fact that more than 90 percent of white poor live in middle class communities, while only approximately two-thirds of African American poor lives in communities that are not majority poor. Mixed income communities are all around us, not just in Rogers Park and Burnside.

Published by Chicago Reporter on June 5, 2008.

Mixed income communities are all around us, not just in Rogers Park and Burnside. Mixed income communities have housing options that can accommodate families at different income levels. Against the backdrop of Chicago’s historic deficit of high quality mixed income housing alternatives for poor people of color, the new communities are a critically important addition to the housing options for all Chicagoans.

Published by Chicago Reporter on June 5, 2008.

dozens of suburban towns. However, in Chicago, Burnside on the South Side, Rogers Park on the North Side and the Lower West Side were home to the city's heaviest concentration of mixed-income residents.

Published by Chicago Reporter on May 21, 2008.

A 53-year-old man was fatally shot in the head on the South Side in the Burnside neighborhood Thursday afternoon.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on May 16, 2008.

The Realtor group's data compares average sales prices in city neighborhoods for the one-year period ending Nov. 1, 2006 against average prices in the year-long period ending Nov. 1, 2007. Besides Englewood and Belmont-Cragin, drops of more than 2 percent were recorded in West Englewood; New City; Chicago Lawn; Auburn Gresham; West Pullman; Roseland; South Chicago; Garfield Ridge; Dunning; Calumet Heights; Gage Park; South Shore; Norwood Park; and Portage Park.

Published by Chicago Tribune on March 6, 2008.

Former Cook County Board President John Stroger died Friday, nearly two years after suffering a stroke during a reelection campaign. Stroger was 79 at the time of his death. His funeral was Wednesday at St. Felicitas Church, 1526 E. 84th St., and was attended by friends, family and elected officials from Chicago and around the state.

Published by Austin Weekly News on January 24, 2008.

Wednesday's funeral is being held at St. Felicitas Church, 1526 E. 84th St. He will be buried later in the day at St. Mary Cemetery, Evergreen Park

Published by Chicago Tribune on January 23, 2008.

Stroger's funeral is set for Wednesday at St. Felicitas Church, 1526 East 84th St., Chicago. Viewing is scheduled from 9am to 11am. The funeral mass begins at 11am.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on January 22, 2008.

Passengers have been removed from the train car and the train is stopped near East 83rd Street and South Avalon Avenue, according to Miller. Nobody was injured, MacGregor said.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on January 8, 2008.

Passengers have been removed from the train car and the train is stopped near East 83rd Street and South Avalon Avenue, according to Miller. Nobody was injured, MacGregor said

Published by NBC 5 on January 8, 2008.

A power outage left 2,900 customers in the Chatham, Avalon Park and Jeffery Manor neighborhoods without power Wednesday morning.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on January 2, 2008.