83rd St. Food Mart: CLOSED

After months of complaints of illegal tobacco sales, sale of tobacco to minors, loitering and alleged marijuana sales, the store is permanently CLOSED. The owners have  moved out their inventory and fixtures.

Per the Alderman,the store owes the City of  Chicago thousands of dollars for code violations. The store was previously closed because they were fined $10,000 for code violations.

A big thanks to the residents of the 8000-8200 blocks of King Drive,Vernon and Eberhart, Alderman Roderick T. Sawyer and his staff,the Chicago Police Department and all the residents of Chatham for their vigilance to rid the community of the problem business.

2 teens shot in Park Manor neighborhood

From ChicagoBreakingNews.com

Two teenagers were shot and wounded Wednesday night in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

The victims, an 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl, were standing on the sidewalk on the 500 block of East 74th Street at about 10 p.m. when the gunman approached, police said.

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2 teens shot in Park Manor neighborhood

UPDATED: 6th Ward Service Office Changes

Added some new information to this post first written on May 16, 2011. Added are the office hours to Alderman Sawyer's service office. Some of this information was announced at the recent GCA meeting with Ald. Sawyer and Chief of Staff Sleet - Levois

Alderman Rod Sawyer

From Worlee's blog, Concerned Citizens of Chatham:

Effective 5/17/2011 the 6th ward service office will relocate to

463 1/2 E. 83rd Street (83rd and Eberhart),
Chicago, IL 60619

Office Phone
773-635-0006

E-mail
6thWardChicago(at)gmail.com

Facebook
6th Ward Chicago

Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/6thWardChicago



Office Hours
Mon-Thursday 9am-5pm
Friday-Saturday 10am -2pm
Closed Sundays.
Evening hours will be scheduled in the future.



The new staff of the 6th ward is as follows:


Chief of Staff Brian Sleet

Roderick Sawyer - Alderman

Brian Sleet - Chief of Staff

Jasmine McCalpin - Aide

Candace Briggs - Aide

Craig Davis - Aide (part-time)

Paul Bryson - Supervisor, Streets and Sanitation



St. Dorothy Catholic Church

I was walking by St. Dorothy Catholic church and snapped these phots. What struck me was how "un-Catholic" it sounded...or at least an adapted Catholicism like the Faith Community of St. Sabinas.

What struck me on the signs:

• Healing Services (like a Pentecostal church)
• Liturgical Dance (not what you think of when you say Catholic)
• Faith Community (rather than parish)
• "Black Jesus"

I am certainly not criticizing these things.  Rather, I think these things are great. But it makes me interested to find out mor eabout the churhc, and how they relate to not only the Chatham community, but especially other Christian churches.

Does anyone have any other information or stories about the church?

We would love to hear them!

Police seek missing 15-year-old South Side girl

Just saw this story on the Chicago Breaking News website ...very concerning for me, as the missing girl lives literally 2 blocks from my home.

Police are asking for help finding a 15-year-old South Side girl who has not been seen by her family since she left for her charter high school on Friday.

Brianna "Bri-Bri" Lacey, who lives near 80th Street and South Eberhart Avenue, left for school Friday morning and has not been seen by her family since, according to a police alert issued today. She had been headed to Chicago International Charter School's Longwood Academy Campus, 1309 W. 95th St., police said.

Lacey spends time at locations near her home and also near 105th Street and Yates Avenue, according to police. She also goes by the name Brianna Wright.

Lacey was last seen wearing school clothes: gray pants, a navy blue polo shirt, a navy blue sweater, a brown coat, and black gym shoes.

She is black, stands about 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs about 110 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes, with a light complexion. She also has pierced ears.

Anyone with information regarding Lacey's whereabouts
should call the Calumet Detective Area's Special Victims Unit at 312-747-8274.