9 arrested in Gold Coast drug sting
Nine people have been arrested in a three-month investigation into an open-air drug market in the Gold Coast, Chicago police said Tuesday. Police are looking for three more people.
The investigation, dubbed Operation Hemlock, focused on the area around Division and Clark Streets. It began after citizens complained to police of drug dealing in the neighborhood, said Police Lt. Peter Piazza.
[via Chicago Tribune]
1 killed, 1 wounded in South Side shooting
One man was killed and another critically wounded when a gunman fired into their van parked on a Far South Side street overnight, Chicago police said.
Police said they have little information so far about the circumstances of the shooting. Just before 2 a.m., responding officers found two men wounded inside the van in the 10400 block of South Corliss Avenue, said Calumet Area Sgt. John Doherty.
[via Chicago Tribune]
Pace cutting begins and will get worse without more state aid
While kindergarten remains in session under the dome of the State Capitol Building in Springfield, the deterioration of mass transit continues in the Chicago area.
On Friday, Pace, the suburban bus agency, started eliminating or reducing the frequency of buses on 23 routes amid a dismal economic climate that includes a $50 million gap in its 2007 budget. First to be eliminated was the Route 835 South Suburban Chicago Express. At one point, Pace ran 22 inbound and outbound buses on Route 835 between Orland Park and downtown Chicago, stopping in several southwest suburbs each way. Last year, the route was reduced to eight daily trips each weekday and only went as far south as Worth.
[via Chicago Daily Southtown]
