(Courtesy of the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council)

Fiesta Back of the Yards is back in full force with food, music and carnival rides on 47th Street.

A $58 million mixed-use development, known as United Yards, will include retail, a health clinic, brew pub and affordable housing. (WTTW News)

Chicago’s Invest South/West project is underway in the Back of the Yards. A $58 million mixed-use development, known as United Yards, will include retail, a health clinic, brew pub and affordable housing.

Chicago Public Library sign. (WTTW News)
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The only library in Back of the Yards shares a space with a local high school. Some residents have advocated for a new freestanding library, securing $15 million in state funding to build it. But a new proposal would incorporate the library into a public housing project.

They closed some 44 years ago, but Chicago's Union Stockyards profoundly shaped the development of the city and the modern world. Dominic Pacyga, a local historian and former stockyard worker, tells the story in his new book "Slaughterhouse.” Pacyga joins us tonight.

Four suspects are in custody for the mass shooting in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood. Paris Schutz has the latest.

We take a closer look at what happened the night of the Back of the Yards mass park shooting, and examine Chicago's persistent violence, with Felicia Davis, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's deputy chief of staff, and Chicago Tribune reporter Peter Nickeas.

Tonight's edition of Geoffrey Baer's Biking the Boulevards takes us on a tour through the McKinley Park and Back of the Yards neighborhoods.