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People gather in Daley Plaza during the Families Belong Together rally on June 30, 2018, to protest families separated by the Trump administration.

Demonstrators rally in the Loop against separation of immigrant families

May 23, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

As 2,000 immigrant children still wait to be reunited with their parents, tens of thousands of people converged on downtown Chicago in opposition to the Trump administration's immigration policies. The...

Silos and other equipment are prepared for use at MAT Asphalt LLC, on May 25, 2018, in Chicago. The new asphalt plant, across from McKinley Park, caused concern over health and implications for property values in the community.

Worried about fumes, McKinley Park residents say officials failed to notify them about asphalt plant being built nearby

May 15, 2020 at 12:29 p.m.

Growing up on Chicago’s Southwest Side, Cristina Martinez cherished the days she spent at McKinley Park. As a child, she enjoyed the park’s swimming pool, the geese at the lagoon...

An undocumented immigrant is given water by U.S. Border Patrol agents after she was aprehended in a sugarcane field near the U.S.-Mexico Border on June 12, 2018 near Mission, Texas.

Marcha en Chicago contra el trato de EEUU a familias migrantes

April 16, 2024 at 12:33 p.m.

La oposición a la práctica de la administración Trump de separar a niños inmigrantes indocumentados de sus padres, en la frontera sur de EEUU llegará a un punto crítico el...

Protesters plan Chicago rally against U.S. treatment of immigrant families

December 13, 2018 at 7:23 a.m.

Opposition to the Trump administration’s practice of separating immigrant children from their parents at the southern U.S. border is expected to come to a head Saturday, with demonstrations planned in...

A woman holds a poster reading "I really do care do you?" as activists gather on June 22, 2018, outside of the White House in Washington, D.C., to protest children being separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Chicago group housing 66 separated minors says it’s ‘a scavenger hunt’ to find their families

May 23, 2019 at 12:58 a.m.

A Chicago nonprofit said Friday it is housing 66 migrant children who have been separated from their parents in the past six weeks under the federal government’s “zero tolerance” policy....

Children and workers stand outside an encampment June 19, 2018, in Tornillo, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. The recently built tent facility is housing immigrant children separated from their parents.

Chicago shelter, Sessions sued after 2 Brazilian boys separated from parents at border transferred here

December 13, 2018 at 6:54 a.m.

A group of attorneys is suing the U.S. attorney general and a Chicago-based nonprofit that houses immigrant children on behalf of two Brazilian children who were separated from their fathers...

Criage Althage, of Chicago, joins in the protest across from Trump Tower on Aug. 13, 2017.

Activistas en Chicago critican la ley ejecutiva de Trump que ordena mantener las familias juntas, pero detenidas

December 13, 2018 at 6:50 a.m.

Parada en una valla que rodea un refugio recién construido para niños migrantes en el suroeste de Texas, la activista de Chicago Tania Unzueta observó el miércoles cómo los autobuses...

Chicago activist Tania Unzueta, shown in 2012, is among hundreds of protesters who have flocked to Tornillo, Texas, to oppose the U.S. Department of Justice's practice of separating children and their parents who have crossed into the U.S. illegally.

Chicago activists decry Trump move that will keep families together but still in detention

May 23, 2019 at 12:58 a.m.

Standing at a fence surrounding a newly constructed shelter for migrant children in southwest Texas, Chicago activist Tania Unzueta watched Wednesday as buses rolled through the arid landscape and into...

Belongings are placed along a wall in an area know as "the Triangle" on Lower Wacker Drive where some homeless people and others camp, on June 6, 2018, in Chicago. Notices are posted in the area stating residents must leave during a period of construction from June 11 to 22.

Advocates criticize plan to fence off Lower Wacker homeless encampment; city cites safety

May 23, 2019 at 12:54 a.m.

The city plans to fence off a homeless encampment along Lower Wacker Drive, a move it says is intended to reduce crime, but one that homeless advocates say raises legal...

A casket bearing the body of Chicago Fire Department diver Juan Bucio, 46, is hoisted on June 4, 2018, to a ladder truck after Bucio's funeral at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel on the South Side. Bucio died during a rescue attempt last week.

Family, friends remember fallen Chicago firefighter as strong, steady: ‘He was the go-to guy’

May 23, 2019 at 12:54 a.m.

Juan Bucio was a man of few words. Quiet but devoted. Stoic but determined. Disciplined and precise. Bucio preferred to let his work do the talking, family and his fellow...

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