Elvia Malagon

Highland Park mother sick with COVID-19 for two weeks with no end in sight: ‘I’m going to be too scared to hug my children’

March 26, 2020 at 11:17 p.m.

It all started more than two weeks ago when Terri Chaseley felt her lungs burning while at the gym. She assumed what she felt was caused by the essential oils...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office (536 S. Clark St.) in Chicago on Tuesday, May 9, 2017.

ICE reverses course, accepts bond payments in Chicago for detained immigrants amid coronavirus closures

March 25, 2020 at 5:53 p.m.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is again accepting bond payments in Chicago for detained immigrants, less than a week after it stopped taking the payments locally and required people to...

Westside Health Authority outreach worker Emily Ferry hands out information about the 2020 Census to a young resident on March 12, 2020, in the South Austin neighbor of Chicago.

Chicago groups scramble to change 2020 census plans for ‘hard-to-count’ communities as government pushes back timeline for its big tally

March 21, 2020 at 2:08 p.m.

On a recent Thursday, outreach workers from Westside Health Authority hopped off a bright orange van and set out on an Austin block on Chicago's West Side, armed with a...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office (536 S. Clark St.) in Chicago on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Story explaining immigration court and the deportation process as government gets aggressive under President Trump. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune) Scene setter of building at 536 S. Clark and 101 W. Congress (same building). Immigration court is in basement.

ICE no aceptará pagos de fianzas de detenidos en Chicago, y limitará los arrestos ante pandemia

March 23, 2020 at 3:44 a.m.

CHICAGO — El Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de EEUU (ICE) ya no acepta el pago de fianzas de detenidos en la oficina de la agencia de la...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in Chicago in 2017.

ICE won’t accept bond money in Chicago for detained immigrants, agency says

March 11, 2024 at 2:05 p.m.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is no longer accepting bond payments for detained people at the agency's Chicago office amid closures related to efforts to contain COVID-19, according to an...

Fake coronavirus test kits seized at O’Hare airport by Customs and Border Protection agents

March 19, 2020 at 9:48 p.m.

Counterfeit test kits for the coronavirus have been seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The tests, which were shipped from the United Kingdom,...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in Chicago, where immigration court is located.

ICE to delay some deportations over COVID-19 as pressure mounts for Chicago’s Immigration Court to close

March 11, 2024 at 2:05 p.m.

While officials try to contain the spread of COVID-19, the federal government has scaled back immigrant-related operations, but attorneys, judges and even prosecutors are pushing for Chicago's Immigration Court to...

Matthew Zhang, foreground, and Megan Zhang, both of Minneapolis, visit Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago after its noon service on March 13, 2020.

Chicago-area religious leaders including Cardinal Cupich suspend services but Catholics offer online Mass, close schools to contain coronavirus

March 14, 2020 at 11:10 p.m.

Religious groups in the Chicago area including the Roman Catholic Church suspended religious services starting this weekend as the state closed schools throughout Illinois as a precaution to contain the...

People stand by as police secure the scene of a police-involved shooting inside the CTA Red Line subway station at Grand Avenue and State Street on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020.

Family of man shot by Chicago police at CTA station: ‘He has had some ups and downs in his life … He dislikes injustice’

March 3, 2020 at 4:22 p.m.

Days after an unarmed man was shot and seriously wounded by Chicago police during a struggle at a busy CTA Red Line station, his family described him in a public...

Kayla Bates poses for a photograph at Church of the Brethren Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, in Elgin. Bates is leading the effort to have the city hold its first pride parade in June, and Church of the Brethren is one of several local churches who will participate in the parade.

LGBTQ people fought for decades to be recognized in the census. This time they will be — sort of.

March 8, 2020 at 1:06 a.m.

Kayla Bates knows the 2020 census is important, but filling it out will mean yet another form that won't allow the 30-year-old to correctly self-identify. "If you identify as a...

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