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Fast-Track Deportations

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

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Enhanced Drug Laws

March/April 2013

In the ongoing "war on drugs," lawmakers pass harsher laws with little examination of the extra costs.

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Road to ruin

Angela Caputo

Lawmakers continue to pass harsher drug laws. And that’s come at an enormous cost. 

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Cover Stories

Camino a la ruina

Los legisladores continúan pasando leyes más duras de control de drogas. Y eso ha llegado con un enorme costo.

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Cell blocks

Taxpayers are spending billions to incarcerate Chicagoans who hail from a small fraction of the city’s blocks

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Celdas en las cuadras

Los contribuyentes están gastando billones para encarcelar a los residentes de Chicago que provienen de una pequeña fracción de las cuadras de la ciudad.

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New Voices

Balancing act

Acrobatics coach strives to take youth to new heights

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Youths are the No. 1 target in Chicago’s homicide epidemic

As the city leads the nation in murders, young people under 25 are often the ones who die—and who kill

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No rooms for refuge

As Hotel Chateau closes, couple fears becoming homeless

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A judge's decision dashes an immigrant's hope for deportation reprieve

A Chicago judge denied an immigration prosecutor’s request last week for an “administrative closure” of a deportation proceeding against Sebastian Pineda, a Mexican immigrant whose case was chronicled by The Chicago Reporter in August.

The decision threw a wrench into the...

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Editor's Note

Time to sound the alarm

It could have been Drew. That thought has been my personal preoccupation lately. I think often about my younger brother, who could have been a casualty of multiple wars—in Afghanistan, Iraq, and right at our back door—on the South Side of Chicago.

Drew could be just another number, one...

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Reporter Impact

Reporter News: March/April 2013

With this issue, The Chicago Reporter kicks off two new features, “#Muckrakers” and “In Focus.” They  will showcase investigations, enterprise reporting and photojournalism previously published at www.chicagoreporter.com and on our Chicago Muckrakers...

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Hotel Chateau

Henrietta Riley opens her closet door to reveal canned goods and other food items. Storage space is limited in the single-room occupancy unit she shares with her partner Curtis Horton. “It’s not much, but it’s ours,” she said. A handwritten inscription of “Psalm 23” hangs on one wall. Small...
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Transplanting hope

Jorge Mariscal was on dialysis for seven years before receiving a life-saving kidney in December. Because of his legal status, the 24-year-old undocumented man could not be put on the organ transplant list. But his mother, Sonia Lopez, would not give up. Lopez and several other mothers in...