Officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert about 1 p.m. in the 7000 block of South Hermitage Avenue, found the man laying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head.
Auburn Gresham
(Bloomberg) On a block of South Hermitage Avenue on Chicago’s South Side, rows of crenelated brick apartment buildings stand behind low iron fences and tidy lawns. It’s a residential street like thousands of others across the country, home to nurses, computer techs, hairdressers and retirees.
But if records from the Small Business Administration are to be believed, one block is also a bustling commercial hub. One man claims to employ at least 10 people in his apartment on one floor of a two-flat. Next door, an occupant of a handsome three-story with limestone quoins does the same. Ditto for a couple of her neighbors across the street. In all, the block, lacking so much as a single storefront or neon sign, contains 18 businesses employing at least 10 people each, according to the SBA. In June and July, all 18 were approved for $10,000 pandemic-relief grants. Some didn’t respond to messages seeking comment, and the rest couldn’t be reached.
On a block of South Hermitage Avenue on Chicago s South Side, rows of crenelated brick apartment buildings stand behind low iron fences and tidy lawns. It s a residential street like
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1of3Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Small Business Administration head Jovita Carranza at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing in 2017. Carranza has defended the agency s performance during the pandemic and has said that repeated fraud warnings by its inspector general were overblown.Bloomberg photo by Andrew HarrerShow MoreShow Less
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