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With a federal review of the site resuming, the $5 million pledge underscores uncertainties about the Obama Foundation’s plans.
Over the past few decades, the US has gradually lowered the ceiling for refugees.
Here’s everything you need to know about the latest developments and challenges to the Obama Presidential Center.
Trump has expanded and escalated the most punitive policies he inherited from his predecessors.
Fort Sill, a military base in Oklahoma, will soon house 1,400 Central American children, the Trump administration says. It’s not the first time the US has used army bases to house refugees.
The inaccurate perception that African American families are devastated by absent fathers that need to return to their responsibilities informs policy and law formulation in a variety of harmful ways.
Protect Our Parks, which had sued to stop construction of the presidential center in Jackson Park, has said it will appeal the ruling.
Next week, a judge is expected to decide the fate of a project that could alter the South Side forever in limitless ways.
The Illinois Traffic Stop Study — launched 15 years ago under legislation sponsored by then-State Sen. Barack Obama — would have ended on June 30.
With a black mayor at the helm once again, it remains to be seen whether a Harold Washington-style African-American and Latino coalition can emerge to fight for socioeconomic and political parity with whites in Chicago.