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The myth of the migrant crime wave
A mass shooting in Chicago should have been inspiration for a discussion of violence prevention. Instead, some blamed Venezuelan immigrants.
‘Chicago has always been a city of immigrant workers’: Some Chicago businesses close their doors to protest immigration crackdown
As immigrant communities entered a third week of fear and uncertainty in the shadow of immigration action, some business ...
Chicagoans with birthright citizenship fear for ‘future of millions of others like me’ after Trump's order
President Donald Trump's executive order, barring legal challenges, would impact people born in the United States after Feb. 18 to parents without legal citizenship status.
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Retracing Martin Luther King’s Time in Chicago With Shermann ‘Dilla’ Thomas
King began speaking across Chicago and leading marches through Gage Park and Marquette Park ... name several years ago because namesake Stephen Douglas, a U.S. Senator from Illinois, owned over 150 ...
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Little Village’s 26th Street A Ghost Town As Deportation Threats Loom: ‘People Are Worried And Scared’
On Tuesday, Illinois and other states sued Trump over his ... Two mothers of students in Acero Schools and Chicago Public Schools in Brighton Park and Gage Park told Block Club last week at a Know ...
Burglar targets pizzeria in Chicago's Gage Park neighborhood
Chicago police said an unknown man smashed the glass door of the pizzeria before entering and took cash from the register.
Cats killed, 2 residents injured in Gage Park house fire: CFD
Two people are hospitalized and several cats died in a Southwest Side house fire Tuesday, Chicago fire officials said.
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2 people critically injured, some pets dead in house fire on Chicago's South Side
CHICAGO (CBS) --Two people were critically injured, and some pets died in a house fire Tuesday morning in the Gage Park neighborhood. Chicago firefighters responded to a fire around 10:30 a.m. in ...