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Do you think High-Tech Companies to Invest $ Billions with the investment -- say by Intel, I.B.M., Samsung, GlobalFoundries and TSMC -- would create 2,500 high-technology jobs as well as 1,900 construction jobs if they relocated and built a high-tech industrial park in the Chatham Market perimeter? Leave your comment on the comment line.

Gunman misses off-duty cop, hits friend in Chatham neighborhood

Police at the scene where a gunman fired on an off-duty officer and his friend, missing the officer but wounding the friend. (WGN-TV)

An off-duty Chicago police officer managed to avoid being hit by gunfire in the Chatham neighborhood early the morning of September 1st, but a friend with him was hit, police said.

The two were outside a residence in the 7500 block of South Wabash Avenue about 2:20 a.m. when a gunman opened fire on the pair, said Police Officer Amina Greer, citing preliminary information.

The officer returned fire but missed, Greer said.

It was not clear if the site of the shooting was the officer's home.

The officer's friend, described as an adult male, was shot in the shoulder and taken to an area hospital in "stable" condition, Greer said.

Police are looking for the gunman.

Chatham is the same neighborhood where off-duty police officer Thomas Wortham IV was slain last year during an attempted robbery.

Man shot multiple times in East Chatham, Avalon Park neighborhood

A man was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds the morning of August 30th, in the East Chatham Avalon Park neighborhood, police said.

Police found the 23-year-old man lying in the 900 block of East 85th Street just after midnight, police said.

He was shot in the abdomen, wrist and groin, police said, and was taken to Stroger Hospital in stable condition. He is expected to survive.

No arrests had been made that morning, as Calumet Area detectives continued their investigation, police said.

BREAKING NEWS: Chatham store owner shot in attempted holdup

A convenience store owner was recovering late Wednesday after he was shot inside his Chatham neighborhood store during an attempted holdup, police said.

The 66-year-old owner was shot once in the groin by one of two masked bandits who entered the business in the 400 block of East 79th Street at around 7:20 p.m., police said.

After shooting the man, the two thieves ran out of the store without getting any cash, police said.

The man was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition. Police said there were no surveillance cameras inside the store.

Police only had a vague description of the masked men and hadn't made any arrests.

New Library New Construction Funded

The funding for the new Whitney Young branch of the Chicago Public Library at 7901 South King Drive in Chatham will be for $16.3 million, with $15.7 million coming from General Revenue Library Bonds floated by the Chicago City Council, $1 million from 87Th Street & Cottage Grove Revitalization Area TIF money, and $600,000 from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for clean-up.