‘For Boogie’: March, street sign pay tribute to Pilsen activist killed 51 years ago

The course of David “Boogie” Gonzalez’s life changed when, in 1971, he lost his older brother Jacob, a year home from Vietnam, to Pilsen’s gang violence. “I guess that was his wake up call,” remembered his sister, Annabelle Gonzalez-Falcon, 72. “That’s when he made up his mind he was going to change things.” Boogie Gonzales, the second youngest of five siblings, had been in a street gang in his youth. But with his brother’s death, he dedicated himself to the Chicano Movement that at the time sought to unify PIlsen’s Mexican American community. As an outreach worker with a Pilsen […]

44-year-old man fatally wounded Saturday morning near the Dearborn Homes on South Side

A 44-year-old man was fatally wounded Saturday morning near the Dearborn Homes on the South Side, Chicago police said. Around 10:40 a.m., the victim suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the 2900 block of South State Street near the CHA Dearborn Homes, police said. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. No noe was in custody and detectives were investigating.