It’s one of the reasons he became president of the Chicago Heights Southside Cruisers. The club began in the early 1980s and disbanded a few years later. Mascitti and a group of fellow ...

For Southside Blooms owners Quilen and Hannah ... The crack cocaine epidemic ravaged Chicago in the 1980s. And the following decade saw an outsourcing of jobs that further undermined Englewood ...

Around 1938, Marshall Hatch’s father hopped on a train in Mississippi to follow his older sister to Chicago, a city that ...

The restaurant got its start in Southside Chicago in 1950. Made famous in Southside Chicago and beyond, Harold’s Chicken Shack is celebrating 75 years as a family-owned eatery. Its origins have ...

Kicking us off, we look at some of the top Chicago-area stories from the 1980s. Which was the most memorable for you? Vote below! Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the news you need ...