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K-Town is a nickname for an area in Humboldt Park, North Lawndale, and West Garfield Park.Although these long streets extend beyond the bounds of North Lawndale, and West Garfield Park, published sources identify the name K-Town as referring specifically to an area of North Lawndale, and West Garfield Park, i.e. the area through which these streets pass. between Pulaski Road and Cicero Avenue ...
That man, 26-year-old Dexter Reed, was killed in “an exchange of gunfire” shortly after 6 p.m. on March 21 in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand, according to COPA and the Cook County Medical ...
A passenger in the ride-share was shot, but survived.
A 49-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting Sunday morning in the Garfield Park neighborhood, according to Chicago police. Police said a vehicle approached the man at 6:08 a.m. while he ...
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
The Four Corner Hustlers (4CH) is an African American street gang founded in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago in the 1960s by Walter Wheat and Freddy Gauge. [1] The Four Corner Hustlers at first were a single gang that would wear the colors black and brown.
Two people were killed and two others were injured, including a 7-year-old boy, after a Sunday afternoon shooting in Garfield Park, according to Chicago police. At about 2:32 p.m. an unknown ...
The North Western Railway had thousands of their employees establish a community in West Garfield Park. [32] At this point, the West Side had immigrant industrial employees from all over Europe. There was a Polish majority in West Town; the Danish, Norwegians, and Russian Jews populated Humboldt Park, and Italians were in East Garfield Park.