Little Village

Ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, advocates in Chicago are continuing his mission of inclusion, working to ensure marginalized communities have equal access to health care by supporting a new proposed community center. NBC 5’s Karen Aguilar reports.

“When the Mag Mile gets hit, they take our resources, our police officers and send them that way,” Baltazar Enriquez, president of the Little Village Community Council said. “So why not do the same thing when this happens to our neighborhood?”

Little Village residents are working to make their community safety after several incidents in which street vendors were robbed at gunpoint. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports.

Little Village community members are demanding more police presence in the morning hours after four street vendors were robbed at gunpoint, NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports.

A Chicago family is expressing anger and heartbreak after a grandmother of 10 died from injuries sustained in a hit-and-run in the Little Village neighborhood, authorities said. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen reports.

A Chicago family is expressing anger and heartbreak after a grandmother of 10 died from injuries sustained in a hit-and-run in the Little Village neighborhood, authorities said. Relatives described the victim, Juana Tapia Lopez, 56, as the rock of her family. “My mom was literally the light in everybody’s life,” said daughter Monse Soto. “As soon as you met her…

A Chicago family is hoping for a holiday miracle after a mother of five and grandmother of 10 was critically injured in a hit-and-run crash in the city’s Little Village neighborhood.

A hit-and-run crash in Little Village left a grandmother of 10 critically injured weeks before the holidays, NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen reports.

Jason Benitez, an Army veteran who was shot and killed in the city’s Little Village neighborhood this week, is being remembered as the glue in his family.

A family of a young army veteran is desperate for answers after he was shot to death in Little Village earlier this week, NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

At least two people are dead after a shooting in the Little Village neighborhood, and a Chicago police officer was injured after a crowd gathered near the scene Monday afternoon. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

At least two people are dead after a shooting in the Little Village neighborhood, and a Chicago police officer was injured after a crowd gathered near the scene Monday afternoon.

A person robbed a West Side bank Saturday morning, according to the FBI.

A man has been charged after allegedly attacking a USPS employee in Little Village, NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

Kidnapping and attempted sexual assault charges have been filed against a man accused of attacking a postal worker over the weekend in Little Village and stealing her mail truck.

As the number of assaults and robberies on letter carriers in the Chicago area continues to rise, police have released enhanced surveillance video of the suspect who they say on Saturday in the city’s Little Village neighborhood hid inside a U.S. Postal Service van and then attempted to sexually assault the van’s letter carrier. Lisa Chavarria has more....

A man was killed and three other people were wounded in a drive-by shooting early Monday in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.

According to National Association of Letter Carriers, there have been least 30 assaults or robberies on letter carriers in the Chicago area since August.

The Chicago Police Department has released a new photo of the man suspected in the sexual assault of a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Saturday in the Little Village community.

A $50,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest of the man wanted for sexually assaulting a mail carrier Saturday in the city’s Little Village neighborhood, authorities said.