The One System Initiative refers to the effort by the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois to combine Chicago’s migrant ...

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Bayan Fares learned Palestinian cross-stitching as a child. She is now teaching the skill to preserve the art amid an ongoing ...

Cisneros, the founder of the Chicago chapter of the Amistad Car Club, always considers the larger lowrider community when planning events with his club. When Cisneros initially came to Chicago from ...

From city colleges to local organizations, find out how to sign up for free English Language classes for adults with ...

Hatice Özge Akbudak has grown a following, sharing her Turkish culture through food and navigating life in another country.

Despite lukewarm feelings about the genre as a child, Mariachi Sirenas cofounder Ibet Herrera helped form Chicago’s first all-women mariachi band. The group has fostered a sisterhood of talented ...

City officials’ decision to consolidate city-run migrant shelters comes as the number of residents has dwindled and fewer asylum seekers are arriving in Chicago. Chicago has closed two more migrant ...

In majority Latino neighborhoods like Brighton Park on the southwest side, residents have come together to push the city to invest more in parks and neighborhood green spaces in the face of climate ...

For a century, Chicago’s Roger C. Sullivan High School has been a home to immigrant and refugee students. In 2017, during the worst global refugee crisis in history, its immigrant population numbered ...