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Aging in the shadows: A crisis of older undocumented workers awaits Illinois

CHICAGO — In a cold basement apartment on the Southwest Side, Gregorio Pillado and Martina Alonso count pennies and pray for relief.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 21, 2022

Catholic high school on Southwest Side fires teacher who used N-word while discussing sports teams with racist names

DeVoto, a teacher of 41 years, was discussing why the former name of the Washington Football Team was offensive to indigenous people, telling students the term was just as bad as the N-word — saying the full word.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 4, 2022

Editorial: A grieving mother’s question for Chicago. ‘How is it possible that a little girl dies in broad daylight?’

For children in Chicago’s Little Village, a predominantly Mexican neighborhood on the Southwest Side, there’s no buffer between a moment of family joy and the sudden terror of bullets flying. Broad daylight gives no cover. Neither does Halloween trick or treating on a street full of costumed children, nor the…

Chicago Tribune · Jan 31, 2022