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September, 2007
Jaqueline Espinal was still wearing her brown leather bomber coat, despite the pressing heat inside the old Logan Square mansion on an unseasonably warm winter day. A slight girl who had just reached her 16th birthday, Jaqueline could easily hide her rounded belly. But it was harder to hide her fears about motherhood.
On Casimir Pulaski Day, Jaqueline came to Casa Central's Adolescent...
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September, 2007
Manal El-Hrisse prays in the basement of the Mosque Foundation in southwest suburban Bridgeview. within hours of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, El-Hrisse said, a woman shouted at her, "I wish I had a gun. I wouldshoot you right now." Many local Arabs say the backlash continues. (Photo by Mary Hanlon) On a chilly Friday evening in November, after prayers at a local mosque, Mamoun Alrifai...
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September, 2007
When Tyrone McGhee began missing classes at Austin Community Academy High School halfway through his junior year, few noticed. The tall, quiet young man said not one teacher or counselor called his house or tracked him down.
"Some of the students cared," he said. "My friends were like, –˜Hey, where's Tyrone?'"
McGhee was a ward of the state, and the official guardian listed on his...
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September, 2007
It's just minutes before the televised noon lottery drawing, and hurried, last-minute players are lining up inside 115th St. Food...
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March, 2004
One morning in January, José L. Oliva braved the crisp, bone-chilling weather to join a hardened group of jornaleros—day laborers, most of them immigrant men—at a dingy strip mall in Albany Park. Oliva stepped into a scrum of about 50 workers, megaphone in hand, and called out in Spanish: “We are not illegals; we are human beings. The contractors should treat us as human beings." To the...
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September, 2007
Blair Hull, a wealthy, first-time candidate, received the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the state's highest-ranking Latino elected official. (Photo by E.J. Rublev)
Everyone on the 7900 block of South Dorchester Avenue knows Kim Gilmore. Now 41, Gilmore grew up in a home around the corner, and still lives in the neighborhood. On weekdays he's a deputy bureau chief with the Cook County...
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September, 2007
Rose Marie Dukes holds up a photo of her son Kenneth as a child. Kenneth Dukes was shot and killed by police this summer in an incident that the officers and Dukes' family describe very differently. (Photo by Louis Byrd III)
Both men ran. The suspect, a black man in black clothes, took a sharp left, with his left arm pumping and his right buried in his coat. Officer Jake Alderden chased him...
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September, 2002
At Westlake Hospital in west suburban Melrose Park, Dr. Santhi Priya Yalamanchili (middle) is accompanied by Carmen A. Jerez, who has undergone 200 hours of training on interpreting techniques. (Photo by Mary Hanlon)All she needed was a routine prenatal check-up. But Rosa Campos dreaded the thought of visiting a northwest suburban Rolling Meadows clinic. “I felt terrible because there was nobody...
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September, 2007
Deborah Smith moved to Hoffman Estates 11 years ago. The northwest suburb has grown increasingly diverse over the last 10 years, but about a third of its minority residents live in a single census tract. (Photo by Richard Stromberg)
Bill Brough had dreams of a country retreat near wildlife, wooded areas and small lakes far away from the hustle and bustle of city life. In 1955, he purchased 45...
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