Around two million people across the country protested an anti-immigration bill that year
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Posted inImmigration
Q&A: Expert Voices on Migration and the Humanitarian Crisis
The Weekly spoke with Caroline Tracey and Todd Miller on the reasons for migration, what happens at the border, and what to expect going forward.
Posted inNotes
Welcome to the Migration Issue
Welcome to the Migration Issue The politicization of the term “migration” has obscured just how common, and how human it is to move. Yes, a person who walked from Venezuela to the US-Mexico border is, perhaps most obviously, a migrant. But so are the half a million foreign-born Chicagoans who left their birth country, pulled […]
Posted inTransportation
Op-Ed: Chicago’s Transportation System Reinforces Insularity and Inequity
An essay on getting around in Chicago, in conversation with South Side poetic luminaries.
Posted inEnvironment
‘This is How You Do It Right’
Environmental activists on the last couple of years, the progression of their organizing, and what they want to see next.
Posted inEn español
Lo que debe saber sobre los recortes a los programas de seguro médico para indocumentados
Las personas indocumentadas verán limitado su acceso a dos programas de seguro médico financiados por el estado y enfrentan costos si ya están inscritos.
Posted inCommunity Organizing
La larga lucha de Pilsen contra el TIF en medio de la gentrificación
Con los impuestos sobre la propiedad a niveles sin precedentes, los residentes de Pilsen se oponen a la ampliación del TIF en su vecindario por temor a que desplace a más.
Posted inEn español
La comunidad llora la muerte de Luis Alberto Aguilar Peres, residente de albergue para migrantes
Cuando su hermana lo invitó a irse a vivir con ella, Peres se negó porque “ya amaba la ciudad de Chicago”, ella dijo durante el servicio en el lado sur de Chicago.
Posted inEn español
Una sobreviviente de abuso sexual y doméstico podría ser deportada
Una mujer del sur de Chicago sufrió abuso sexual, violencia doméstica y cárcel. Ahora podría ser deportada a pesar de tener una solicitud de visa U pendiente.
Posted inImmigration
Survivor of Sexual and Domestic Abuse in Chicago Faces Deportation
Leer en español Southeast Side resident and abuse survivor is facing deportation despite being eligible for a U visa. Attorneys from the National Immigration Justice Center in Chicago (NIJC) say Ana Navarro, thirty-one, qualifies for a U visa because she is a survivor of child sexual abuse and gender-based violence and has cooperated with law […]