Katie Goldman Likes Stars Wars: Bullied For Having Star Wars Water Bottle, Geeks Rally The force is with Katie Goldman. Geeks and Star Wars fans are rallying to the defense of 7 year old Katie Goldman after she was...
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Police Are Investigating a Pipe-Bomb Explosion That Decapitated 21-Year-Old Colin Dalebroux The body was found on September 14 near Nichols Middle School in Evanston by Dale Wyatt who was walking his dog around 5:35am. The school is close to Dalebroux's apartment and police...
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A Decapitated Body Was Found Near An Evanston Middle School, Nichols Middle School, In a Suburb Near Chicago, and Police Think it May Be the Result of a Pipe Bomb ExplosionDale Wyatt was walking his dog on Tuesday morning at around 5:15am near Nichols Middle School on 800...
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Learning and Playing a Musical Instrument Improves Reading Children who learn to play a musical instrument may have an advantage when it comes to reading. Professor Nina Kraus of Northwestern University in...
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BY BENJAMIN HAAS AND ALI PECHMAN When the Cambodian-American fusion band Dengue Fever played in Chicago, a simple cultural difference tipped off drummer Paul Smith as to how many Cambodians were in the audience. ...
There are several ways to transfer money overseas, one common but high cost way of doing so being to use money transfer companies such as MoneyGram or Western Union. While this option is convenient given that walk-ins are welcome and money is transferred fast, typically...
What do the stripes on the U.S. flag mean? For born American citizens who do not have to take the U.S. Naturalization Test, the answer may just be that they represent the 13 original states. But for immigrants wishing to be naturalized and Chicago-based groups wishing to help...
Sushma R., 19, is a college student in Chicago now, but she recalls being scatterbrained and squirmy as a little girl. That is when she moved in 1996 from Bangalore, India, (also known as Bengalaru) the third most populous city in India, to Illinois with her parents and her...
Recounted by Ty TimFor me the first thing to adjust [to] is language. So hard for me to adjust. You know, what do they talk about? What is it? I just learned ABC from a radio at camp [refugee camp]; I know how to...
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Despite his hard-won skills while wandering the Cambodian jungle for weeks, such as scaling trees to navigate and fine-tuning his senses to sniff out water, Ty Tim admits through a thick accent that once he came to America, one of the hardest adjustments was the seemingly...
By Jonah Newman Seventeen years ago, Iqbal Mevawalla left his comfortable job as a typist at a TV station in Karachi, Pakistan for an unknown future in the United States. When he arrived in Chicago, his first job...
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The DREAM Act would give undocumented immigrant youth the chance at conditional citizenship – meaning, legal residency and a green card – by joining the U.S. military or attending a university for two years....
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Take a glimpse at the desk of Rosanna Castellanos, a bilingual special education teacher at Goudy Elementary School in Chicago, and you may be surprised by what you see. In addition to pencils, pens, textbooks and...
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By Jonah Newman Simeon Simeonov held his Bible close to him as he huddled under his umbrella, among more than 50 immigrant rights activists and religious leaders, outside the Broadview Detention Center, a...
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Jacqueline sits on the bed, staring up blankly with heavy blue eye shadow surrounding her painted eyes. Twenty-two year old Laura Mesa picks her up, pushing down some of her wiry red hair, and explains that...
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