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Thousands are being deported without a chance to appear before an immigration judge.

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May, 2013 Clock is running down fast on slow-moving school closings moratorium bills This is a tale of two bills. SB1571 was introduced in the Illinois Senate on Feb. 13, intended to put a moratorium on Chicago Public Schools’ plan to close 54 schools. Then that bill was amended to remove the provision seeking to put a moratorium on school closings. Despite the original text of the bill having been removed, and it only having three co-sponsors, the SB1571 is slowly moving... > Read More	May, 2013 Some Chicago Public Schools students give themselves a lesson in civics Despite a warning coming on high from Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett that “the only place students should be during the school day is the classroom,” some Chicago high school students thought otherwise and walked out of school to take part in the third day of a march in the name of education justice. The Chicago Teachers Union and community groups opposed to the 54 planned... > Read More	May, 2013 The clock is ticking to get tickets for the Reporter’s “Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me!” fundraiser The Chicago Reporter is an investigative magazine that doesn't shy away from the tough issues. Our 40th anniversary edition of the magazine shows just that: We looked at some of the changes in 40 years of the Reporter's main beats--criminal justice, immigration, labor and housing. But we also know when it's time to celebrate the long hours put in, the award-winning investigations we've produced... > Read More
May, 2013 Facing layoff, a CPS custodian sees few options A bright welcoming banner with blue and yellow lettering offsets the bleakness of the long, gray concrete wall across the street from Mahalia Jackson Elementary School. The canvas banner has cracks in it that runs across Jackson’s portrait, yet the face of the woman known as the Queen of Gospel beams out at the world. This is what Joseph Davis drives by most days. Past the blocks-long wall with a... > Read More	April, 2013 Low-wage workers use minority unionism to fight for $15 minimum wage When Judith Luna went to work at Sears, she never expected to be paid so little that she would seldom be able to shop at the clothing retail store. Nine dollars an hour barely covered her living costs, and it was especially hard when the store barely gave her enough hours to qualify as part-time work. And there’s more the sale associate didn’t expect. Luna never expected she’d be part of a... > Read More	May, 2013 Everything you want to know about the Reporter's investigations and the lawsuits they started From the practice of redlining in the 1960s to predatory lending in the 2000s, racial disparities in housing have long played out in Chicago. And for much of that time, The Chicago Reporter has been there to dig up the dirt on why it’s happening and who is profiting from it. This timeline looks at some of the Reporter’s key investigations, and the lawsuits and settlements that have come out of... > Read More
May, 2013 May Day rally marchers voice concern for those left out of proposed immigration reform bill It was the first truly warm day of spring, reaching a longed-for temperature above 80 degrees. Old men pushed their ice cream carts, the bells on them ringing as they moved. The sun filtered through the cracks between downtown’s skyscrapers and onto hundreds of marchers at this year’s May Day parade on Wednesday. The parade started at Union Park on the near West Side, ending in Daley Plaza in the... > Read More	May, 2013 Chicago Reporter staffers win 7 Lisagor Awards for exemplary journalism Here at The Chicago Reporter, we love what we do. And every now and then it’s nice to be recognized for it as well. The Reporter won seven Lisagor Awards Friday night honoring our investigations, photography and graphics in 2012. The awards are given by the Chicago Headline Club, which established them in 1922 to recognize great journalism in Chicago. They’re named in honor of Peter Lisagor, the... > Read More	May, 2013 Chicago Teachers Union report points finger for “failing schools” at CPS policy of disinvestment Neighborhoods across the city are desperately fighting to keep their schools open, many of them by arguing that the 50-plus closures suggested by Chicago Public Schools officials will devastate their already ailing communities. A report from the Chicago Teachers Union released last month looks at the devastation that the neighborhood schools were facing in another way--before the latest list of... > Read More