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Reaching Out: Immigration Group Provides Support to Community
Tears filled his eyes as he remembered the feeling of losing his grandfather and not being able to be with his extended family in Mexico during the time of sorrow. Edy Angel Dominguez Quezadas, a Chicago resident, is one of more than five million undocumented immigrants separated from their families by the U.S.-Mexico border. He […]
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She never knows when it’s going to happen. The last time it did, Darlene Clair-Clark was in the bathroom at work when she suddenly remembered she’s lost two sons to homicide and broke down. The 55-year-old mother of three wishes she could forget the losses and just remember the lives, but the pain she feels […]
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Illinois student smokers may soon be forced to snuff out their cigarettes. Sen. Terry Link, D-Waukegan, introduced the “Smoke Free Campus Act” on Feb. 15, which, if passed, would prohibit smoking on any campus of a state-funded college/university starting July 1, 2014. The act would also require each state-funded college/university to establish a task force committee to […]
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In the 1960s and ’70s, he was a member of a notorious, Chicago gang, but today he can be heard along the main streets of Pilsen saying “God bless you,” to passersby. Raymond Gutierrez Jr. spends his time reaching out to communities with high crime rates to help decrease the violence in Chicago by inviting […]
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Sexual assault crisis centers can finally count on a new source of funding—strip clubs. The Illinois “skin tax,” that went in to effect on Jan.1, requires strip clubs that serve alcohol to pay a tax that would raise money for underfunded rape crisis centers. Clubs have the option of paying a $3 surcharge per customer or […]
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Gold Coast residents learned Monday about recent plans to transform The Hunt Club, at 1100 N. State St., into an upscale, three-in-one restaurant, bar and club. Owner of The Hunt Club Jim Lasky and developer David Pisor presented their plans to knock down the building and start the new one from the ground up. Though the […]
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