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Cerila Cruz checks on her7 year-old son, Jesus Anthony Cruz, left, as he plays on his computer in an upstairs hallway at their home in Bolingbrookon March 9, 2017. Jesus Anthony's father has been detained by immigration offiials for half of his son's life.

A rare look at life inside one of the Chicago area’s 2 ICE immigration detention centers

May 11, 2019 at 6:29 a.m.

From a jail cell in McHenry County, Jesus Antonio Cruz-Martinez counseled his 15-year-old stepdaughter over the phone about a boy she likes at school. He penned letters to the family,...

Chris and Patrice Bedford hold their 6-week-old son, Theodore, at their home in Chicago's Roscoe Village neighborhood. The Bedfords plan to move out of Chicago around July.

Chicago area leads U.S. in population loss, sees drop for 2nd year in a row

August 23, 2019 at 2:57 p.m.

Patrice Bedford had never questioned raising her baby in Chicago. But on a springtime stroll during the first trimester of her pregnancy last year, a heightened sense of smell —...

Michael Riley grieves March 16, 2017, after his 3-year-old son was critically injured in an apparent accidental shooting in the 6200 block of South Aberdeen Street in the Englewood neighborhood. Riley was charged a day later with a gun offense and child endangerment.

Father of critically injured 3-year-old ordered held on $750,000 bail

May 22, 2019 at 11:13 p.m.

The father of a 3-year-old boy who was critically wounded in an apparent accidental shooting on Chicago's South Side was ordered held in lieu of $750,000 bail Saturday. "We have...

Desirae Kirchmeier hitches a ride ona leprechaun at the dyeing of the Chicago River on March 11, 2017.

Green dye splashes river onlookers who plan to take home ‘a bit of St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago’

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

Excitement swept the crowds that gathered along the Chicago River on Saturday morning as the moment some waited all year for neared. Some held their cameras at the ready; others...

Thousands of demonstrators attend a rally for International Women's Day on March 8, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.

In small, local meetings, volunteers plot strategies for women’s movement

June 5, 2018 at 5:17 p.m.

Tucked away behind rows of brightly colored comic books and board games, more than a dozen people gathered Saturday afternoon in the back room of G-Mart Comics in Logan Square,...

A wheelchair is used to hold up police tape around a car riddled with bullet holes parked at the emergency room entrance of the University of Chicago Medical Center on Feb. 25, 2017. The shooting occurred in the6200 block of SouthRhodes in Chicago; a victim of the shooting was transported in the damaged car to the U. of C.

1 dead, 7 wounded in Chicago shootings

May 22, 2019 at 11:08 p.m.

A man was killed and at least seven other people were wounded in shootings from Saturday morning to early Sunday, police said. Three people, including a 15-year-old girl, were wounded...

Hundreds rally, march for transgender rights in Boystown

May 22, 2019 at 11:08 p.m.

Returning to the 7-Eleven parking lot where they'd gathered after the nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., in June, Chicago's LGBTQ community again joined in solidarity Saturday — this time to...

Nareman Taha, right, of Arab American Family Services, listens to comments being made during a roundtable discussion at the State of Illinois Building in Chicago on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. Representatives from local civil rights and human rights groups talked about the impact federal executive orders might have on their communities.

Hate crime rising, report activists at Illinois attorney general’s summit

May 22, 2019 at 11:07 p.m.

At a summit of civil rights leaders Thursday called by the state's attorney general, local activists say they are seeing an increase of hate crime incidents in the Chicago area...

Candy Navarrete stands in her clothing booth at Source Fashion inside Discount Mall in Little Village during a very slow sales day on Feb. 15, 2017.

Little Village streets, restaurants quiet as deportation fears rise

August 21, 2019 at 10:15 p.m.

The specter of Trump-era immigration enforcement has dimmed the energy of Little Village, where streets no longer bustle with commerce and conversation, residents say. News of last week's immigration raids,...

Chicago police investigate the scene where five were shot, three fatally, in the 3900 block of South Albany Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood Feb. 15, 2017.

Details emerge as student, 18, held without bail in Brighton Park shooting that left 3 dead

May 22, 2019 at 11:06 p.m.

A Cook County Judge on Saturday ordered held without bail an 18-year-old high school student in connection with a failed drug heist that ended with five people shot, three fatally....

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