Auburn Gresham

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was in North Lawndale on Monday to promote the next phase of the city's INVEST South/West program.

Summer can be a difficult and sometimes dangerous time of year in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, which is why Saint Sabina Church is kicking off a number of programs to help keep people healthy and safe.

An activist Roman Catholic priest cleared by an Archdiocese of Chicago investigation into claims that he sexually abused several boys decades ago returned to the pulpit of his longtime church on Sunday for the first time in five months.

Father Michael Pfleger will return to Saint Sabina Church on Sunday for the first time in five months.

Fr. Michael Pfleger said he is "forbidden" to be present at "any public events or activities" until the investigation into accusations against the reverand is over. This includes any events that take place this Easter weekend.

An Auburn Gresham man has been charged with the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man.

The white priest’s job, his reputation in a Black community that’s long respected him, and the parish’s future are in jeopardy because three men — two who are Black and the third whose race hasn’t been made public — have accused him of sexually abusing them decades ago.

Chicago Police arrested two people suspected of shooting three others on Saturday afternoon. Police tweeted: "Great job for the quick response."

On Friday night, dozens gathered outside of Saint Sabina on Chicago's South Side in support of Father Michael Pfleger, who was accused of sexual assault earlier this week.

“Forty-five years I’ve been here and never has it been as bad as it is right now in terms of hopelessness, anger and despair. Never,” says the Rev. Michael Pfleger.

A Chicago man was sentenced last week to seven and a half years in federal prison for illegal gun possession on the South Side.

Two children were shot in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Sunday afternoon. The boys are about 11-years-old and 10-years-old.

A man charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend and leaving her tied up in a Gresham bathtub allegedly tried to cover his tracks by posting a fake social media post on her account telling family to “leave her alone,” prosecutors say.

There was a demand Wednesday night for Chicago’s violence to end on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. 

Kevin Green says he was working on his van in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood recently when he was fired on with a barrage of bullets.

A suspect in the shooting of a 22-year-old man Saturday during a carjacking in Gresham has been taken into custody, police said.