A gunman opened fire Saturday in Krakow, Poland’s main market square, killing at least six people and wounding 15 others, with Polish officials designating the attack as terrorism.
The Cook County Department of Public Health announced $475,000 in grants to bring mental health education and care connections into barbershops, salons and other trusted community spaces for young people in four suburban communities.
The Chicago Park District opened a 4-acre Child Wild Exploration Garden at the Garfield Park Conservatory on the West Side, described as the first nature-play installation of its scale inside a densely populated urban neighborhood in the country.
The Cook County Department of Public Health awarded $92,270 to three organizations to bring restorative practices into schools and support community power building across suburban Cook County.
The Chicago Park District opened the Child Wild Exploration Garden at Garfield Park Conservatory, a first-of-its-kind four-acre outdoor nature space in an urban neighborhood designed for children from birth through age 16. The garden is free with reservations and open year-round.
Goodman Theatre announced the principal cast for the Chicago premiere of Kimberly Belflower’s Tony-nominated “John Proctor Is the Villain,” running Jan. 23 through Feb. 21, 2027, directed by Marti Lyons. The production is a co-presentation with the Guthrie Theater and opens Feb. 1.
A fire killed four people in a North Side townhouse early Friday, as Chicago also recorded a fatal road-rage shooting in Brighton Park and a triple shooting in Englewood, leaving multiple victims hospitalized.
Gianna Detloff, a 19-year-old North Central College freshman from Carol Stream, was fatally shot at a Halloween party near Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, prompting an outpouring of grief from her home community.
The Chicago Community Trust announced nearly $6 million in Neighborhood Capital Fund grants for six community-led real estate projects in Austin, Englewood, Little Village, North Lawndale and West Garfield Park aimed at expanding access to health care, fresh food, violence prevention and small-business support.
Trinity Health will invest $306 million in a new seven-story Support Services Building at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, the first phase of a broader campus redevelopment plan scheduled to open in winter 2029.