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Larry Neuman sought to bring folks together and hoped to do more for young people. The retired police officer, Vietnam veteran and ordained minister 'probably knew just about everybody in the neighborhood.'
Plans to add housing in the downtown corridor will help reinvigorate the district, architects and developers said, but there are still construction challenges with turning office spaces into residential units.
A 16-year-old boy shot Jai’mani Amir Rivera Tuesday afternoon near the child's apartment complex in the 2300 block of West Jackson Boulevard, police say.
Larry Neuman, 73, was found with multiple gunshot wounds about 11:30 a.m. Thursday in the 4300 block of West Monroe Street. He was a "pillar" of his beloved West Garfield Park community, according to Pastor Paul Sims of St. Michael Missionary Baptist Church.