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Maria Perez, whose primary language is Spanish, is shown in her apartment on North Clark Street in Chicago on Sept. 6, 2019. She wants better language services for Chicago Housing Authority residents whose primary language is not English.

Public housing residents with limited English need more language help from CHA, advocates say, urging Lightfoot to make changes

September 6, 2019 at 4:29 p.m.

For three months, Maria Perez went without hot water in the bathroom of her publicly subsidized apartment because of a language barrier with her landlord. "I told her, 'You don't...

Robbers smash windows of Near West Side restaurant, steal ATM, flee in Jeep and Prius

September 6, 2019 at 1:33 p.m.

At least two men smashed through the glass doors of a Near West Side restaurant and took off with an ATM, according to Chicago police. The robbers broke into the...

Attorney Chris Bergin speaks with Esperanza Perez, mother of Miguel Perez Jr., a veteran facing deportation to Mexico, following a citizenship interview for his client outside of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices in Chicago on March 15, 2018.

Regresa la esperanza a veterano deportado, podría volver a EEUU

September 4, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.

CHICAGO — Miguel Pérez Jr. todavía estaba en estado de shock días después de que el gobernador de Illinois J.B. Pritzker, le concediera clemencia, acto que le abre la puerta...

Deported Army vet hopeful he’ll be allowed to return to Chicago after governor’s pardon

March 11, 2024 at 2:08 p.m.

Miguel Perez Jr. was still in shock days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker granted him clemency, opening the door for the deported U.S. Army veteran's possible return to Chicago. "I'm still...

16-year-old Chicago girl killed outside store in Dolton; third recent shooting in south suburb

August 28, 2019 at 8:10 p.m.

A 16-year-old Chicago girl was shot and killed Tuesday night in Dolton when someone fired into a car parked outside a convenience store, according to police in the south suburb....

Early sunlight illuminate the ten crosses with the names of the the 10 children killed by fire last year in Little Village, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. Abel Uribe/baiduhai

Hace un año 10 niños murieron en uno de los incendios más mortales de Chicago, la causa aún se desconoce

August 26, 2019 at 12:16 p.m.

Diez cruces de madera, cada una pintada de blanco y con el nombre de un niño, están clavadas en el suelo de un pequeño jardín en el Southwest Side. Flores...

Waves crash into a breakwall at 31st Street Beach on Lake Michigan in Chicago on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, a day after a man died trying to save a daughter who was swept into the water.

Rene Padilla wanted one more day at the beach with his daughters before school. He died trying to save one of them from drowning.

August 23, 2019 at 8:09 p.m.

Rene Padilla wanted to spend one last summer day with his daughters before school started. So he took the day off from his construction job Thursday and headed to the...

Derek Starr, a forensic electrical engineer, assesses the fire damage on Sept. 7, 2018, in a gutted Little Village apartment where 10 children died.

10 children were killed a year ago in one of Chicago’s deadliest fires. The cause is still unknown, and officials have been mostly silent.

August 23, 2019 at 5:44 p.m.

Ten wooden crosses, each painted white and bearing the name of a young child, are staked into the ground of a small garden on the Southwest Side. Fresh flowers and...

Chicago police Officer Marni Washington, left, walks with then-Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot on May 19, 2019 at Resurrected Life Church International in Hermosa.

Chicago cop on Mayor Lightfoot’s security detail cleared of misdemeanor domestic battery charge

August 16, 2019 at 10:15 p.m.

A Chicago police officer who had been assigned to Mayor Lori Lightfoot's security detail was acquitted Friday of a misdemeanor domestic battery charge that alleged she physically attacked her then-girlfriend....

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul speaks to the media on Aug. 15, 2019, in the Loop. Illinois was one of more than a dozen states that jointly filed a federal lawsuit this week seeking to stop the rule proposed by the Trump administration that could deny green cards to legal immigrants who receive public aid.

Illinois sues over new rule that could deny green cards to those on public aid: ‘It’s another attempt … to intimidate immigrants’

March 11, 2024 at 2:09 p.m.

For U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, a new rule that could curb the ability of working-class immigrants to seek permanent residency in the United States struck a personal note. Krishnamoorthi, a...

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