Chicago South Side

Workers with Chicago’s Department of Streets and Sanitation discovered a deceased male inside a garbage can early Saturday morning on the city’s Far South Side, police said.

Chicago native Harry Lennix, a well-seasoned actor and producer both on screen and on stage, is spending his free time working to build a theater and museum in the city’s Bronzeville neighborhood.

Three more vacant buildings collapsed Tuesday on the South Side after a storm dumped a foot of snow in Chicago, raising the total number of collapses in February to six.

A man was critically wounded in an apartment building fire early Sunday morning in Oakland on the South Side. Firefighters responded to a blaze about 2:35 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 3800 block of South Ellis, according to officials. The fire began in the apartment of a 30-year-old man, Chicago police said. He suffered smoke inhalation and burns…