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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Martin Nesbitt, left, chairman of the Obama Foundation, announce on May 12, 2015, that Chicago will be the home of Obama's presidential library and museum.

South Side community activists push for economic promises from Obama center

May 23, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

South Side community activists who want residents to see dividends from the Obama Presidential Center have begun drafting their wish list for community benefits agreements that seek new jobs, improved...

María teme ser deportada si intenta salir de una situación de violencia doméstica.

El temor a la deportación ahuyenta las denuncias de abuso

June 3, 2018 at 10:03 a.m.

María nunca llamó a la Policía, ni siquiera cuando su novio le apretó el cuello lo suficiente como para dejarle moretones, contó. Él pertenece a una pandilla, relató la mujer;...

Immigration advocates gather at O’Hare as partial travel ban takes effect

May 22, 2019 at 11:37 p.m.

Lawyers and immigration advocates were again on hand at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Thursday night when portions of President Donald Trump's travel ban went into effect. A small group...

Residents turned away from community meeting on Obama center, Jackson Park

May 22, 2019 at 11:36 p.m.

Dozens of residents were shut out of a community meeting Tuesday to discuss plans for the Obama Presidential Center, an expanded golf course and the rest of Jackson Park. The...

Baraa Haj Khalaf, left, gets a kiss from her brother, Uday Haj Khalaf, after arriving at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Feb. 7, 2017.

Supreme Court travel ban ruling changes little for Illinois refugees

May 11, 2019 at 6:30 a.m.

Refugees in Illinois who are hoping to reunite with loved ones still overseas felt a small bit of relief Monday when the Supreme Court announced that only foreigners who have...

Maria, whose last name is withheld because she fears being deported, spends time with her children in a reading room at a Chicago church May 4, 2017.

Immigrant women fear deportation under Trump if they report domestic abuse, advocates say

May 11, 2019 at 6:30 a.m.

Maria never called the police, even when her boyfriend clutched her neck and squeezed hard enough to leave bruises, she said. Because he is in a gang, she said, she...

Springfield bishop: No communion, last rites, funerals for same-sex couples

May 22, 2019 at 11:35 p.m.

Ahead of Chicago's festivities celebrating gay pride this weekend, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield has issued a decree instructing priests in the central Illinois diocese...

Obama Presidential Center’s plan now includes Lake Shore Drive changes, more road closures

May 23, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

To make the proposed Obama Presidential Center a reality, the Chicago Department of Transportation and Obama Foundation made their case to neighbors Wednesday that roads must be closed and traffic...

Michael Van Valkenburgh visits the site of Maggie Daley Park, where he served as the landscape architect, in 2014. Van Valkenburgh is now designing the 20-acre campus for the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park.

Obama center’s landscape architect plans playground and performance lawn

June 3, 2018 at 1:57 p.m.

Though plans for the Obama Presidential Center still call for the controversial closing of Cornell Drive, a six-lane artery that cuts through Jackson Park, the absence of a road from...

Hospital chapel to reopen after fire on Northwest Side: ‘Now we’re rejoicing’

June 3, 2018 at 2:50 p.m.

When an extra alarm fire broke out at Chicago's Presence Resurrection Medical Center in December 2014, clergy prayed for the two firefighters hurt in the blaze and the 230 patients...

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