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Mexico City hopes to lure Chicagoans by touting cheaper health care

May 13, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.

Banking on worries over rising health costs in the U.S., government and hospital officials in Mexico City are courting Chicagoans searching for affordable medical care. On Wednesday, about a dozen...

Immigration: Swirling hope and despair

May 9, 2019 at 8:55 a.m.

The subject of illegal immigration has been in the news a lot lately, with Republican presidential candidates seeking to out-flank each other on ideas for enforcement. Not to be left...

Illinois AG files suit against Waukegan activist

May 16, 2019 at 8:45 a.m.

The Illinois attorney general's office Friday filed a civil lawsuit against a well-known Waukegan activist, alleging that Margaret Carrasco misrepresented herself as an immigration attorney and collected "unconscionable fees" from...

Illinois AG files suit against Waukegan activist

August 23, 2021 at 1:54 a.m.

The Illinois attorney general's office Friday filed a civil lawsuit against a well-known Waukegan activist, alleging that Margaret Carrasco misrepresented herself as an immigration attorney and collected "unconscionable fees" from...

Emanuel expected to name Charlotte exec new Chicago Housing Authority CEO

May 15, 2019 at 1:38 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday is expected to name an outsider from Charlotte, N.C. to head the Chicago Housing Authority, according to a top City Hall source. Charles Woodyard, who...

Emanuel expected to name Charlotte exec new Chicago Housing Authority CEO

May 23, 2019 at 3:49 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday is expected to name an outsider from Charlotte, N.C. to head the Chicago Housing Authority, according to a top City Hall source. Charles Woodyard, who...

Immigrants hope for deportation reprieves

August 23, 2021 at 1:33 a.m.

After he was brought into the U.S. illegally as a 1-year-old, Luis Pedrote did so well in school that he won a President's Education Award in 2006. Today, his family...

Cook County will not detain some illegal immigrants sought by feds

May 16, 2019 at 8:30 a.m.

Casting the contentious debate over illegal immigration as a fiscal issue, the Cook County Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance that would allow illegal immigrants in jail on misdemeanor charges...

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez arrives for a press conference regarding a long term undercover investigation into forced sex-trafficking of children and young women by Chicago street gang members.

9 charged in sex trafficking investigation: ‘So much of this out there’

May 16, 2019 at 8:25 a.m.

Dozens of girls, some as young as 12, were pulled into a human trafficking ring that forced them into prostitution, State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said today. The girls and women,...

They call me Miss Brooks

August 23, 2021 at 1:19 a.m.

Like Aibileen Clark, the central character in the movie, "The Help," no one ever asked me what it felt like to be a maid. It was something I never talked...

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