It was three o’clock in the afternoon, dismissal hour at Roosevelt High School in Albany Park, where the student body is 74 percent Latino. A young white woman stood on the corner of Wilson and St. Louis avenues, with a whistle around her neck and a tab with the phone number of the Illinois Coalition … Read more
The city’s go-to restorer has worked on everything from two particular bronze lions (you know the ones) to ancient rock art.
As the feds cracked down on immigration in Chicago this fall, filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz’s camera was rolling. These stills and footage show a city in crisis — and a city defiant.
A poet reacts to the immigration crackdown in his hometown the way he knows best: through verse.
The answer dates back to 1703, when the French controlled the Illinois Country. That year a Jesuit group established its mission along the east bank of the Mississippi River to minister to the Kaskaskia tribe of Native Americans and founded a permanent settlement named for the group. They also set up a fur trading post … Read more
Not only are we No. 1 in production, but we’re about three times as big as other producing states.
Yes, several — the GOP was the party of Lincoln, after all — but it’s been nearly a century. Chicago’s last Republican chief was William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson, who served from 1915 to 1923, then from 1927 to 1931. He was best known for his isolationism, his feud with Britain’s King George V (whom he once vowed to … Read more
