{"id":78535,"date":"2025-07-20T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78535\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:29:13","slug":"vandal-targets-multiple-buildings-including-community-center-in-little-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78535\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandal targets multiple buildings including community center in Little Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-chicago-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chicago police are searching for the person who vandalized multiple buildings with hateful messages, including a community center, in the Little Village neighborhood early Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Police said three buildings were vandalized in the 2700 block of West Cermak Road, one of which was the Latinos Progresando Community Center. A fourth was vandalized in the 2500 block of South Central Park Avenue, all happening around midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The person used spray paint on the outside walls of the buildings, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/latinospro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post on social media<\/a>, Latinos Progresando said the person spray-painted a swastika on their front door along with at least four other entities that are based in and provide services for the Mexican community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The organization, which provides services including immigration legal services and wellness programs, responded to the actions, saying in part, &#8220;Latinos Progresando will not back away from our values or be deterred from our work because of this heinous criminal act. We are not going anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A description of the suspect was not released, and no further information was available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Area 4 detectives are investigating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/jeramie-bizzle\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeramie  Bizzle<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin Weekly Newspaper, OakPark.com and Sportskeeda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live Chicago police are searching for the person who vandalized multiple buildings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,7122,4219,39476,5386,1818,53975],"class_list":{"0":"post-78535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-police-department","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-hate-crime","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-little-village"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114886748908709283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}