The lunch hour at Minna’s Restaurant last week hummed with activity. Families packed into booths, men lining the long counter bolted down tacos while their impatient phones beeped at their sides. Stacks of to-go orders formed little towers on the …
Belmont Cragin restaurant owners say business hasn’t returned pre-immigration enforcement levels Read MoreEnrique Espinoza has an unusual perspective for an immigration lawyer, having moved from Mexico nearly two decades ago and become an American citizen. He now guides his Chicago-area clients through an immigration system far different from the one he navigated. …
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, formed to help immigrants, now being turned against them Read MoreRobert Payne lost his brother at a young age. The 66-year-old said he “tried to use drugs and everything else (so that) I could not feel and remember what had happened.” He said that when the money would run out, …
A Cook County drug court program is helping non-violent offenders overcome substance use Read MoreIt’s beginning to look a lot like Krampus around Chicago. If you haven’t met the mythical holiday figure yet, consider yourself lucky — or on the perma-nice list. This towering half-goat, half-demon adorned with horns, a long red tongue and …
Here comes Krampus: How the half-goat, half-demon became a cultural phenomenon Read MoreIf you followed the twists and turns of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already know that several prominent names emerged from the tranche of emails that the Epstein estate released. Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard …
Bannon, Epstein friendship inexcusably stays under the radar Read MoreThe warning signs of a mental health or substance use crisis vary. Some people may be agitated, express suicidal thoughts or appear disconnected from reality. Others may withdraw or become unable to care for their basic needs. When a person …
Improving crisis care, 988 hotline awareness in suburban Cook County Read MoreDEAR ABBY: My best friend of more than 10 years, “Ian,” ghosted me! We used to talk about everything — wives, children, jobs. We spent hours together and helped each other sort out our problems. He knew more about me …
Dear Abby: Wife carries on communicating with former best friend Read MoreFour people were injured in a three-vehicle chain-reaction crash late Thursday in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side. Just before midnight, a gray car was going north in the 6200 block of South King Drive when it rear-ended …
4 injured in chain-reaction crash in Washington Park Read MoreLAS VEGAS — In the middle of the third quarter, inside their Huntington Bank Field and trailing only 10-8, the Browns doomed themselves with a horrible fourth-down play in their territory. Terrible special-teams debacles greased a deficit that would become …
NFL picks: Browns QB Shedeur Sanders will thrive vs. Titans Read MoreGood morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: How the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a wing of the Department of Homeland Security, is now being turned against the immigrants they were meant to help. 🗞️ Plus: The State/Lake train station’s closing, Mayor Brandon …
Agency meant to help immigrants turns against them Read MoreChris Getz couldn’t wait until his plane landed in Orlando for the winter meetings to kick-start his offseason plan. The White Sox’ general manager inked left-hander Anthony Kay to a two-year contract, bringing Kay back to the United States. It’s …
Low-risk signings likely theme for White Sox at winter meetings Read MoreCristel Paiz cierra la puerta de su estudio de yoga en Berwyn antes de atenuar las luces y sentarse en su tapete rosa de yoga. “Concéntrate en este momento”, dice Paiz mientras guía a cuatro mujeres de diversas edades en …
Inmigrantes tienen niveles más altos de ataques de pánico y ansiedad, y poca ayuda Read MoreEl estado ha advertido a las empresas nacionales de alquiler de automóviles de que el hecho de que agentes federales de inmigración cambien las placas de las matrículas asignadas a los vehículos por otras placas viola la ley de Illinois …
Advierte Illinois a agentes de inmigración y agencias de alquiler de autos que no se pueden alterar placas Read MoreMiles de residentes de bajos ingresos en el área de Chicago serán elegibles para nuevos descuentos en sus facturas de electricidad a partir del próximo año, esto mientras las tarifas de la energía eléctrica suben de precio. A partir del …
Entrarán en vigor nuevos descuentos para residentes de bajos ingresos mientras suben las facturas de la luz Read MoreEl senador estadounidense Dick Durbin está haciendo un último esfuerzo para impulsar un proyecto de ley que garantice un camino legal hacia la ciudadanía para los inmigrantes menores de edad a través del Congreso antes de su próxima jubilación. Durbin, …
Durbin vuelve a presentar la DREAM Act con la esperanza de que más jóvenes inmigrantes tengan la ciudadanía Read MoreAn ex-employee of the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center has filed a lawsuit against the institution and its president and CEO, Perri Irmer, alleging misuse of public funds, harassment and retaliation. The lawsuit is the latest in an …
Former DuSable Museum director files whistleblower suit Read MoreTruth serum would be wasted on Ron Weber. The Chicago hairstylist was the king of unvarnished assessments. There was the time he told a 50-ish matron unready to part with jet black hair: “Time to say good-bye to darkness, my …
Ron Weber, hairstylist who did it his way, dies at 80 Read MoreA federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried the actions of …
U.S. vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth Read MoreChicago is No. 1 nationally for worst vehicle congestion, so we asked readers how they make the most of getting stuck in traffic. We also asked which expressways need the most improvement. Here’s what you said, lightly edited for clarity: …
How do you make the most of getting stuck in Chicago traffic? Here’s what you told us. Read MoreTo help meet Chicago’s growing demand for indoor pickleball courts, a new pickleball club, decorated by a mural wall created by more than a dozen of the city’s most prolific street artists, opened in November in the South Loop. On …
Chicago murals: New South Loop pickleball club mural features pickles and pickles playing pickleball Read More