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The shelter for migrants at 21st Street and Racine Avenue in Chicago, shown on Aug. 22, 2023, is set to close in under two weeks.

Pilsen shelter set to close first week of September, forcing nearly 100 asylum-seekers back to police stations

March 11, 2024 at 12:45 p.m.

Nearly 100 asylum-seekers who made a home at a community-run shelter in Pilsen must leave the building by Sept. 3 due to a confluence of bad luck that includes a...

Venezuelan migrants Carla Perez and Ronald Larez chat as they arrive for the first day of school and their parents talk with school administrators at The Ogden International School Monday. Ronald had to wait with other migrants while parents filled out additional paperwork.

Chicago Public Schools’ new year begins with help from the new mayor — and many old and looming challenges

March 11, 2024 at 12:46 p.m.

When more than 320,000 Chicago youths resumed classes Monday, the sense of renewal brought by a fresh school year was underscored by the presence of Chicago's new mayor, a former...

La migrante venezolana María Alejandra Larez Fuentes lee una hoja de información luego de lograr inscribir a su hijo de 9 años en la Escuela Internacional Ogden en 24 W. Walton St., el jueves 17 de agosto de 2023, en Chicago

Hijos de la crisis: CPS recibe a migrantes que necesitarán mucho más que instrucción académica para sanar el trauma

April 15, 2024 at 3:45 p.m.

Esperaron durante más de cinco horas. Apenas unos días antes de que su hijo, Ronald, comenzara el tercer grado en las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago, María Alejandra Larez buscaba conseguirle...

Maria Alejandra Larez reads an informational pamphlet after successfully enrolling her 9-year-old son, Ronald, at Ogden International School in Chicago on Aug. 17, 2023.

Children of the crisis: CPS prepares to welcome migrants who will need much more than schooling to heal from trauma

March 11, 2024 at 12:49 p.m.

They waited for more than five hours. Just days before her son, Ronald, started third grade in Chicago Public Schools, Maria Alejandra Larez was on a quest to get him...

Temp worker Brisa Chavez outside her home in Cicero, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023.
Advocates say new state legislation will increase protections for temp workers in Illinois. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

El gobernador J.B. Pritzker firma una ley para fortalecer las protecciones para los trabajadores temporales de Illinois

April 15, 2024 at 3:45 p.m.

Durante las últimas dos décadas, Brisa Chávez, de Cicero, ha encontrado trabajo a través de agencias de empleo. Como muchos inmigrantes, la madre soltera ha podido encontrar trabajo a través...

Hailee Hrusosky sits on Logan O'Brien's shoulders to watch Lana Del Rey perform on the Bud Light stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago's Grant Park on Aug. 6, 2023.

Lollapalooza Day 4: For the final day, Chili Peppers and Lana Del Rey, and the mud is part of it

August 6, 2023 at 6:21 p.m.

The final day of Lollapalooza opened in Grant Park under low gray skies, persistent patches of rain and the mud here to stay. Sunday headliners are Red Hot Chili Peppers...

El libro para niños escrito por Margarita Quiñones-Peña, quien fue traída por sus padres al barrio de La Villita de Chicago cuando tenía 3 años y es beneficiaria de DACA.

‘Homecoming’: el nuevo libro de una soñadora de La Villita humaniza el viaje de los niños indocumentados en EEUU

April 15, 2024 at 3:45 p.m.

Aunque fue hace 30 años, Margarita Quiñones-Peña aún recuerda que se despidió de su abuelo con un abrazo cuando su madre embarazada, la tomó de la mano a ella y...

"Homecoming," a new children's book by Margarita Quiñones-Peña.

‘Homecoming’: New book by a ‘Dreamer’ from Little Village humanizes the journey of undocumented children in US

March 11, 2024 at 12:49 p.m.

Though it was 30 years ago, Margarita Quiñones-Peña still remembers hugging her grandfather goodbye when her pregnant mother took her and her older sister by the hand to make their...

Temp worker Brisa Chavez, outside her home in Cicero on Aug. 3, 2023, could benefit from new state legislation that will increase protections for temp workers in Illinois.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs law to strengthen protections for Illinois temp workers

August 8, 2023 at 10:52 a.m.

For the last two decades, Brisa Chavez, of Cicero, has found work through staffing agencies. Like many immigrants, the single mother has been able to find work through temp agencies...

Migrants outside of the Broadway Armory after arriving on Aug. 1, 2023. Community residents have both protested and welcomed the migrants.

Migrants are moved out of police station near Grant Park ahead of Lollapalooza, some to newly opened Broadway Armory shelter across town

March 11, 2024 at 12:49 p.m.

In advance of Lollapalooza — the music festival that will bring hundreds of thousands of people to Grant Park this weekend — more than 100 migrants have been moved out...

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