Sara Olkon

Erick Mendez woke about 12:30 Wednesday morning to the sound of frantic pounding on his door and horrific screams from a neighbor's son. "He said, `My little brother is burning!...

Bertha Mares, a mother of four, has neither a job nor a husband. A quiet pragmatism settled over her on a recent afternoon as she waited 20 minutes for a...

For the Barraza family, life is conducted mostly in Spanish. The Elgin couple works together, cleaning newly built homes in the Aurora area, where they take orders from a Spanish-speaking...