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As crime and public safety are top of mind across Chicago’s communities, there are people who are working to prevent conflict before it happens and stop it from escalating when it does. Throughout 2025 WTTW will spend a year exploring violence interruption and prevention in Chicago in FIRSTHAND: PEACEKEEPERS. BUILD…

The leaders’ message was delivered inside the Walnut Room at Macy’s — letting kids and adults know you can’t be it unless you see it. Shardaa Gray reports on BUILD Chicago’s Black Table event. Watch on www.cbsnews.com/chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) — This holiday season, there’s a chance to shop local and to support diverse talent from all over the Chicago area. The annual Austin Holiday Market opened Friday morning on the West Side, showcasing and supporting small Black- and Brown-owned businesses and nonprofits from around the city. “If you…

For the past nine seasons, the NFL’s annual My Cause My Cleats initiative has provided players with a platform to support causes and non-profit organizations close to them through custom cleats on game day. While community involvement and advocacy is a year-round priority for the Bears, the team’s strong and…

CHICAGO, Nov. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Sharp Capital Advisors, a boutique investment bank specializing in the cannabis industry, proudly supported the BUILD organization in Chicago last week during its annual turkey and winter coat giveaway. Sharp donated 1,000 turkeys to the most needy families in the Austin and Humboldt Park neighborhoods, two areas served by BUILD’s youth…

When Michele Clark Academic Prep Magnet High School gets out each afternoon, students trickle across West Harrison Street to BUILD Chicago’s Austin campus, an impressive 51,000-square foot, three-story building buzzing with youth from all over the community. BUILD, a West Side nonprofit that offers violence intervention, education, community wellness and…

D is 16, and had been struggling with low self-esteem and trust, hanging around the wrong group of guys. So early on in our relationship, the four of us took him and his mother grocery shopping: they were so amazed. ‘Nobody ever did this for us,’ D said, looking up…

Jaisol Marinez among Latino leaders at ‘La Mesa Latina’ youth luncheon. Watch the full story from ABC 7 Chicago here.

While there was a 9% increase in violence in Austin in 2023, the half mile surrounding the Austin campus of BUILD — or Broader Urban Involvement & Leadership Development, a gang intervention, violence prevention and youth development organization — experienced a 13% decrease, according to the Chicago Data Portal. The…

HUMBOLDT PARK — Community leaders are ramping up efforts to interrupt gang violence amid a series of Humboldt Park shootings in recent months. There have been 28 shootings, five of them fatal, in the neighborhood since July, according to city crime data. During the same time period last year, there were…

CHICAGO – A group of Chicago activists took their bikes out for a ride Saturday on the city’s West Side to spread the message of non-violence and hope to young people. Saturday was a picture perfect day for a bike ride, or in this case, a bike ride with a…

In a Fox 32 special report, Terrence Lee looked at a new program that’s highlighting a number of local fresh food sources growing right under our noses. It’s not your typical trolley tour. “I think that it’s absolutely beautiful,” said Cynthia Streeter, a trolley tour participant. “Beautiful, beautiful. I think it’s a beautiful…