Greater Grand Crossing

A gunman opened fire on a car on Chicago’s South Side overnight. Police reported that one person was killed and two others were injured during the deadly shooting. The incident occurred around 3 a.m. in the 7100 block of South Champlain Avenue, located in Greater Grand Crossing.

A shooting occurred in Greater Grand Crossing on Monday night on Chicago's South Side. The incident resulted in one death and another injury. Police reported that the shooting took place just after 9:30 p.m. near the 7300 block of South Indiana Avenue.

Brown Sugar Bakery and Stylez Caribbean Snack Shop were broken into early Wednesday on East 75th Street in Greater Grand Crossing, according to Chicago police. The incidents occurred at neighboring businesses in the same area.

Human remains, including two skeletonized legs and parts of a skull, were found in a garbage can in the 300 block of East 68th Street in Greater Grand Crossing. Detectives are investigating the discovery, which follows a similar incident two weeks earlier in Back of the Yards where a woman's body was found in an alley.

A new Best Buy Teen Tech Center in Greater Grand Crossing offers South Side teens opportunities to learn coding, game design, music production, and digital literacy through specialized zones and equipment. The center, funded by Best Buy with $170,000, includes areas for photo/video production, gaming computers, an audio lab, and a makers’ lab with sewing machines and quilting tools.

Possible human remains were discovered in a South Side alley located in Greater Grand Crossing, Chicago, according to police. The remains were found on Monday morning.

Tarsha Jackson opened Roots: The Brunch Experience, a Southern-style restaurant in a former church on 75th Street in Chicago's Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. The restaurant features a menu by chef Jada 'Juice' Henderson and showcases portraits of Black historical figures like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.

The Gary Comer Food Sovereignty Hub in South Side's Greater Grand Crossing opened with a greenhouse, hydroponic container farm, and chicken coop to expand urban agriculture and address food injustice. Funded by a $250,000 grant, the hub aims to increase fresh food production by 30% and includes youth-led initiatives at the Gary Comer Youth Center.

Seven people were injured after a fire broke out in the trash chute of a high-rise apartment building in Greater Grand Crossing on Saturday morning. Firefighters responded to the building on West 71st Street around 6 a.m., and the building was evacuated. Four injured individuals were in good condition, while three were in fair condition.

A man was found shot to death on a sidewalk in Greater Grand Crossing, South Side Chicago, on Friday evening, according to police.

Food delivery robots are expanding to Chicago's 6th Ward after Ald. William Hall approved the program. Serve Robotics, which operates in other neighborhoods, will launch its fleet in the 6th Ward this fall, aiming to provide residents access to new technology. The expansion follows a community event where residents experienced robot-delivered meals.

A woman was killed and a teen was shot in a Greater Grand Crossing residence during a Friday morning shooting. Police responded to the 7600 block of Eberhart Avenue in Chicago at 12:50 a.m. to find a 37-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy inside the home when gunfire occurred.

A 48-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. He was found with stab wounds inside an apartment building on the 8000 block of South Ellis Avenue around 9:25 p.m. and died at the scene. Area 2 detectives are investigating the incident.

Spencer Leak Jr., vice president of Chicago’s Leak and Sons Funeral Homes, a community-focused funeral service provider, has died. Tributes highlight his leadership in handling Rev. Jesse Jackson’s funeral and his impact on shaping funeral service professionals.