Archive dive: A report from Morton, Illinois, the self-declared pumpkin capital of the world

by Brianna Wellen on November 19, 2018 at 11:00AM

The Nestle USA plant in Morton produces Libby's Pumpkin using proprietary seeds to produce pumpkins with more meat, fewer seeds, less water. Inside the factory, somewhere between 50 and 80 percent of the seasonal workers come from tiny La Soledad.

Crashing the boys’ club: independent women directors in the 60s and 70s

by Patrick Friel on August 7, 2018 at 6:00AM

The explosion of American independent filmmaking in the 1960s and '70s was largely an all-male affair (surprise), but a few talented women also got their hand in during this vital and changing period. The Chicago Film Society is showing one such effort, Juleen Compton's 1966 rarity The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, which has been recently rediscovered and restored, on Wednesday, August 15.

100,000 'From Immigrants' love letters to the U.S. are being left around Chicago and other cities

by Tyra Nicole Triche on July 10, 2018 at 6:00AM

for immigrants." The wall will feature a compilation of the images that Torcal has created for the "From Immigrants" love letters.

Thousands protest Trump in the Families Belong Together March [PHOTOS]

by Aimee Levitt on June 30, 2018 at 2:28PM

Immigration activist who took sanctuary in Humboldt Park church spotlighted in Elvira

by Ben Sachs on May 18, 2018 at 6:00AM

or had relatives there talked about their own experiences." Phillips adds that he's learned as much from people who have attended the series as he has from the films themselves.

As others are deported, a Dreamer wrestles with fear and uncertainty

by Alex V. Hernandez on May 19, 2017 at 11:23AM

was in Back of the Yards. We have offices in Back of the Yards, and we had a meeting scheduled with someone there.

Immigration fears, state budget woes have made things worse for domestic violence victims

by Aimee Levitt on May 10, 2017 at 5:40PM

: lawyers and the media. In the presidential administration, it's the lawyers who are stopping overreaches.

Local Syrian-American doctors support Trump’s missile strikes, despite skepticism

by Sarah Conway on April 27, 2017 at 8:00AM

table, you don't ask the blood donor about their intentions-you just take the transfusion," Akhras says. "That's the position Syrians have been forced into today."

Teaching Chicagoans that in Rojava, resistance is life

by Sarah Conway on April 26, 2017 at 3:20PM

More than 30 people squeezed into a cozy space to hear eyewitness accounts of the radical paradise inspired by leftist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) revolutionary Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned in Turkey since 1999. Turkey bombed Rojava Tuesday, according to news reports.

Deportation fears can lead to higher risk of illness in undocumented populations

by Alex V. Hernandez on April 25, 2017 at 1:30PM

policies have ever faced the fear that you'll never be able to see someone you love ever again," she says. This constant state of fear can have far-reaching medical implications, and not just for the undocumented community.