CHICAGO (WLS) -- A newly elected Chicago alderman is refusing to grant St. Sabina Church a permit for its annual block party. Alderman David Moore of the 17th Ward is refusing to approve the ...

A South Side alderman has denied a Chicago church a permit for a "Chiraq" block party intended to celebrate the filming for Spike Lee’s upcoming movie “Chiraq” because he opposes the film’s title. "I ...

A Chicago alderman who earlier this week denied a permit for a “Chiraq” block party has changed his mind and now granted the permit for the party. Ald. David Moore, who is serving his first term as ...

(CBS)-- David Moore, the alderman in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood where the Spike Lee movie "Chiraq" is being shot, is denying a permit for a block party for the film. Last month, Lee went to St.

Alderman David Moore says the party planned by St. Sabina’s Catholic Church and the Rev. Michael Pfleger is co-sponsored by Lee and the cast of “Chiraq.” A casting call last month for the movie was ...

CHICAGO — Permit or not, Father Michael Pfleger’s St. Sabina block party was going to happen Saturay. The alderman who first tried to block the permit, because Spike Lee and his cast of “Chiraq” was ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago alderman who wants director Spike Lee to change the title of his upcoming movie about black-on-black violence says he will not approve the closing of a street for an annual ...