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Venezuelans and supporters gather at Daley Plaza, Aug. 5, 2024, to protest the reelection of President Nicolás Maduro after authorities declared him the victor in last Sunday’s election against presidential candidate Edmundo González. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Protesters in Daley Plaza rally decry reelection of Venezuelan president, claim voter fraud

August 6, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

Four Venezuelan girls sat cross-legged on the ground Monday night with gags on their lips that said, “liberty, peace, dignity and justice" to protest the reelection of their country’s authoritarian...

Esperanza Mendez sits on the couch with her daughter Yuledy Mendez, 11, in their home on July 24, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

A migrant family’s first year in Chicago: sadness, setbacks and ‘beautiful moments’

August 5, 2024 at 8:52 a.m.

They had risked their lives to make it to the United States. A year later, they find themselves in deep isolation.

A fence surrounds a field next to the Near West District (12th) police station in Chicago on Aug. 2, 2024. According to migrants, several personal belongings were thrown away by officials when they were removed from the space in late June. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Migrant homeless encampment cleared; city officials deny it’s because of DNC

August 3, 2024 at 11:29 a.m.

The encampment clearing was the latest of the city’s overall “encampment initiative” at eight tent cities across Chicago, according to Chicago Department of Family and Support Services spokesman Brian Berg.

Jennifer Leigh Husbands, 51, is shown near her home on Aug. 1, 2024, in Chicago. Husbands is Caribbean American; her mother is from Michigan and her father is from Barbados. “When people like Trump say things like what he said (Wednesday), I feel like it kind of sets the conversation back 20 years,” she said. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

For multiracial people, questions confusing ancestry and identity are exhausting: ‘It’s happened my entire life’

August 3, 2024 at 1:27 p.m.

Kamala Harris shouldn’t have to justify how her ancestry and biology align with her racial identity: her customs, languages and traditions, experts said.

Former President Donald Trump answers a question while participating in a Q&A with Rachel Scott, senior congressional correspondent for ABC News, during the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention and Career Fair at Hilton Chicago in the Loop on July 31, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Donald Trump questions Kamala Harris’ racial identity at Black journalists’ convention

August 1, 2024 at 7:13 a.m.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump questioned Kamala Harris' racial identity and compared himself to Lincoln at the National Association of Black Journalists' convention in Chicago.

From center, Keila Rodriguez, 43, talks with her grandson Thiago Gonzalez, 5, both from Venezuela, outside a migrant shelter on North Ogden Avenue on July 29, 2024, in Chicago. On Sunday incumbent Nicolás Maduro and challenger Edmundo González both claimed victory in Venezuela's presidential election. The National Electoral Council has declared Maduro the victor. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Chicago migrants disheartened over presidential election results in Venezuela: ‘We want our country to be free’

July 31, 2024 at 9:55 a.m.

Heymerling Drownosky said when Venezuelan incumbent President Nicolás Maduro announced his victory overnight Monday, migrants around her broke down in tears at the shelter in the West Loop. She could...

Children play on a basketball court at the Henry Horner Annex across the street from the United Center where the Democratic National Convention will be held next month on July 25, 2024 in Chicago. The Henry Horner Annex is within the vehicle screening perimeter for the DNC. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Many West Side residents say they were left in the dark about DNC plans: ‘No one asked’

July 28, 2024 at 1:17 p.m.

Local and federal authorities announced long-anticipated details of the planned security perimeter around the DNC Thursday, but surrounding residents said they have felt left out of the conversation.

Protesters jump over a vehicle barricade while marching through downtown during the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

‘We’re not intimidated’: Chicago protesters head to Milwaukee for RNC

July 15, 2024 at 7:32 p.m.

As the Republican National Convention kicked off Monday morning in Milwaukee, hundreds of protestors in Chicago crossed the Illinois-Wisconsin state line to raise their voices for liberal causes.

A migrant woman from Venezuela holds her 1-year-old son near their home in the Austin neighborhood, July 9, 2024. In June, while looking for an apartment with her son, she was sexually assaulted in an alley near Roseland Community Hospital. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Migrant woman sexually abused while on the search for housing highlights the vulnerability for attacks, experts say

July 15, 2024 at 5:27 p.m.

She didn’t know the neighborhood. The 35-year-old Venezuelan had found an apartment listing on Facebook for a room in the Roseland neighborhood, 17 miles south of where she was staying...

A police officer works the scene where a 47-year-old man and a 39-year-old man were shot in the 2400 block of West Monroe Street in Chicago on July 7, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Mayor condemns ‘choice to kill’ after more than 100 people are shot in Chicago over holiday weekend

July 8, 2024 at 5:24 p.m.

City leaders gathered at Chicago Police headquarters Monday morning to once again decry the city’s entrenched violence and call for accountability for those who carried out shootings over the holiday...

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