Antonio D. Johnson, 21, of the 120 block of West 112th Place, was arrested about 2:45 a.m.

Published by Chicago Tribune on September 5, 2008.

The announcement is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Dunne Technology Academy, 10845 S. Union Ave.

Published by NBC 5 on September 4, 2008.

Nikenya Spires was fatally shot in her home at 48 E. 100th Pl., a spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said.

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

...shot in her home in the South Side Roseland neighborhood  Saturday morning. Nikenya Spires of 48 E. 100th Pl. suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at 6:30 p...

Published by Fox News Chicago on September 2, 2008.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Five people have been shot on Chicago's South Side near 107th and Wabash.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 22, 2008.

The shooting happened at 9:05 p.m. at 107th Street and Wabash Avenue, according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

Published by NBC 5 on August 22, 2008.

The shooting happened at 9:05 p.m. at 107th Street and Wabash Avenue, according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

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

The shooting happened shortly after 9 p.m. at 107th Street and Wabash Avenue in the Roseland neighborhood, police said.

Published by Chicago Tribune on August 22, 2008.

Shortly after 9 p.m., the victims were outside a residence at 107th Street and Wabash Avenue when a passing vehicle approached, police said. At least one occupant from that vehicle opened fire on the victims, three females and two males ranging in ages from 16 to 21, police said.

Published by Chicago Tribune on August 22, 2008.

The shooting happened at 9:05 p.m. at 107th Street and Wabash Avenue, according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

Published by Fox News Chicago on August 22, 2008.

To learn more about this weekend's fundraiser, go to www.gridirongreats.org. To make a donation to Gridiron Warriors, send checks to Gridiron Warriors, C/O Kenneth Jennings, 11153 S. King Drive, Chicago, IL 60628.

Published by The Southtown Star on August 22, 2008.

To make a donation to Gridiron Warriors, send checks to Gridiron Warriors, c/o Kenneth Jennings, 11153 South King Drive, Chicago, IL 60628.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on August 22, 2008.

State Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) nominated a candidate to run against the son of Senate President Emil Jones Jr. (D-Chicago) during the little-publicized meeting at the 34th Ward Regular Democratic Organization office, 507 W. 111th Street.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on August 22, 2008.

Police say the five victims were sitting on the porch of a home near 107th and Wabash. They say someone drove up and opened fire.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 22, 2008.

State Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) nominated a candidate to run against the son of Senate President Emil Jones Jr. (D-Chicago) during the little-publicized meeting at the 34th Ward Regular Democratic Organization office, 507 W. 111th Street.

Published by Fox News Chicago on August 22, 2008.

...S. Constance, Brandon Gowdy, 18, of 7111 S. Union, and Anthony T. Smith, 22, of 220 W. 111th Place, were arrested in connection with a brutal beating that put two people in the hospital...

Published by Lake View Booster on August 21, 2008.

Prosecutors told Circuit Judge Donald Panarese that between June 24 and Saturday, Alexander Pearson, 21, of the 100 block of West 110th Street shook the boy numerous times, causing multiple fractures to his arms and ribs, and blunt trauma to his head.

Published by Chicago Tribune on August 21, 2008.

Alexander Pearson, 21, of 107 W. 110th St., is charged with one count of aggravated battery to a child. His bail was set at $2 million Wednesday by Cook County Judge Donald Panarese Jr., according to Cook County State's Attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton.

Published by The Southtown Star on August 21, 2008.

Alexander Pearson, 21, of 107 W. 110th St., is charged with one count of aggravated battery to a child. His bond was set at $2 million Wednesday by Cook County Judge Donald Panarese Jr., according to Cook County State's Attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 21, 2008.

Alexander Pearson, 21, of the 100 block of West 110th Street, is charged with one count of aggravated battery to a child. His bond was set at $2 million Wednesday by Cook County Judge Donald Panarese Jr., according to Cook County State’s Attorney’s office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on August 21, 2008.

Democratic Party leaders in the South Side and south suburban 14th Senate District unanimously chose Jones over community activist Dozier Thomas to replace Emil Jones Jr. on the Nov. 4 ballot during a brief meeting at the 34th Ward Regular Democratic Organization office, 507 W. 111th Street.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on August 21, 2008.

The shooting happened at 9:05 p.m. at 107th Street and Wabash Avenue, according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on August 21, 2008.

...aka Bernie Mac" memorial service is at noon Saturday at the House of Hope Church, 11401 S. Prairie. This celebration is open to the public and to all his friends and fans who...

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on August 14, 2008.

His funeral service will be at noon Saturday at House of Hope, 11401 S. Prairie.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on August 10, 2008.

11248 S. Michigan Ave.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 6, 2008.

...The last major incident came June 13 when a ComEd field worker was robbed at 115th and Princeton Avenue. That worker was not injured...

Published by Chicago Tribune on August 4, 2008.

...The last major incident came June 13 when a ComEd field worker was robbed at 115th and Princeton Avenue. That worker was not injured...

Published by Chicago Tribune on August 4, 2008.

...22-year-old man were chased by a vehicle that made a U-turn on Forest Avenue near 113th Street and Forest Avenue. One of the vehicle's occupants began firing with a handgun, hitting...

Published by Chicago Tribune on July 23, 2008.

Steven Cullers, 45, of the 11300 block of South Prairie Avenue on Chicago's Far South Side, was charged with one count of first-degree murder...

Published by Chicago Tribune on July 22, 2008.

A rash of shootings over the weekend claimed at least four people, including a 38-year-old woman at a Ukrainian Village bar, a 26-year-old man on a Roseland street, an 18-year-old in a drive-by shooting on the South Side and another 18-year-old in south suburban Chicago Heights. In addition, a 31-year-old man died of head trauma after an assault on a Southwest Side street.

Published by Chicago Tribune on July 21, 2008.

A rash of shootings over the weekend claimed at least four people, including a 38-year-old woman at a Ukrainian Village bar, a 26-year-old man on a Roseland street, an 18-year-old in a drive-by shooting on the South Side and another 18-year-old in south suburban Chicago Heights. In addition, a 31-year-old man died of head trauma after an assault on a Southwest Side street.

Published by Chicago Tribune on July 21, 2008.

DePaul University students are digging into the past of a Chicago community that was the brainchild of rail car magnet George Pullman.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 14, 2008.

Led by Jane Baxter, an associate professor of anthropology at DePaul, the students and community members are finishing a five-week excavation of a small city block bordered by East 111th Place, South Forrestville Avenue, East 112th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue.

Published by Chicago Tribune on July 14, 2008.

Shopping at the arcade began to decline at the turn of that century as rail lines and new neighborhoods further connected the Pullman community to Chicago. By the 1920s, the arcade had become obsolete and was demolished.

Published by Chicago Tribune on July 14, 2008.

About 20 miles south, in the West Pullman neighborhood, the family of Marlow Jones came together to comfort the 17-year-old's mother and the grandmother who raised him.

Published by Chicago Tribune on July 14, 2008.

Mount Sinai Hospital. In the second incident, Marlow Jones, 17, was fatally shot. Also, a 30-year-old man was grazed in the head by a bullet as they stood on the street early Sunday morning in the city's West Pullman neighborhood.Jones was pronounced dead at the scene, and the 30-year-old was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in stable condition.

Published by NBC 5 on July 13, 2008.

A group of concerned citizens marched for peace Sunday after the latest shooting took the life of a 15-year-old in Little Village and a 17-year-old gunned down in West Pullman overnight.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 13, 2008.

The FBI says two men brought the kidnapped victim at gunpoint to a home in the Roseland neighborhood on 119th Street, bound him with duct tape and handcuffed him to a chair. They beat him, shot him in the leg and left a pit bull to keep him in place.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 12, 2008.

As neighbors gathered in South Side yards for 4th of July barbecues, Ronald's family sat on the front steps of his home in the 10400 block of South State Street, stunned and weeping.

Published by Chicago Tribune on July 4, 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.

The South Side’s Roseland community, where CeaseFire began operating in October 2006, has seen the biggest increase in the number of shootings, from 15 between September 2006 and March 2007 to 22 during the same period one year later.

Published by Chicago Reporter on July 1, 2008.

An anonymous donor has contributed $5 million to the Salvation Army's capital campaign for a West Pullman area community center.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on June 30, 2008.

The Salvation Army has received a big boost for its plans to build a new community center in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on June 30, 2008.

Harrison Ellis, 32, of the 10400 block of S. Calumet Ave., was shot at 10755 S. Calumet Ave. and was pronounced dead at Roseland Community Hospital at 2:10 p.m., the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said.

Published by Chicago Sun-Times on June 29, 2008.

Otis McDonald, 74, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, lives in the Morgan Park and Beverly area, and keeps a shotgun at home and a handgun outside the city. He'd rather have the handgun close by to protect himself in a neighborhood he says is plagued by gangs.

Published by Chicago Tribune on June 27, 2008.

-- Reginald Knight, 24, of 10800 S. Parnell Ave., was shot late Sunday June 15

Published by Fox News Chicago on June 26, 2008.

-- Reginald Knight, 24, of 10800 S. Parnell Ave., was shot late Sunday June 15

Published by Fox News Chicago on June 25, 2008.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Palmer Park (201 E. 111th St) This Lyons Family Classic (seriously) is bizarrely misogynistic, unbelievably dated, and sort of about Stockholm syndrome. But one of the characters is named Dorcas and there's so much dancing!

Published by Chicagoist on June 25, 2008.

Alderman Ed Smith says three times in recent years...he's been caught in the crossfire of gunfights in his 21st ward. He doesn't fault police who act in self defense when they see a gun.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on June 25, 2008.

Reginald Knight, 24, of the 10800 block of South Parnell Avenue, was shot late June 15 in the 300 block of West 109th Place and was pronounced dead at 12:20 a.m. June 16.

Published by NBC 5 on June 25, 2008.