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March, 2008
The white van pushes out of a frozen South Side parking lot in the dark on a winter Saturday morning. Ed Paschal's handful of passengers, mostly strangers to each other, are headed to a pair of downstate towns they might never have known existed if it weren't for their loved ones. The riders–"three women and two teens–"will spend the next five hours talking or watching a movie, but mostly dozing...
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March, 2008
A convicted arsonist, burglar and two murderers each take turns in the classroom. For the next several minutes, each will leave his uniform, the walls and the barbed wire of the Central Illinois prison where they are serving time. For a few brief moments, they will return to the places they are known as father, dad, daddy or uncle. It's bedtime, at home, with their kids at their side.
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February, 2008
With a pen stroke in November 2005, Gov. Rod Blagojevich opened a new chapter in Illinois' long history as a home for immigrants. At a convention hosted by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights at Navy Pier that year, flanked by thousands of immigrants, community organizers and lawmakers, Blagojevich, the son of a Serbian immigrant, signed Executive Order 2005-10.
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