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The panel consisting of policy experts, community organizers and student leaders discussed enhancing mental health resources, supporting children, and improving policymaking processes for the migrants housed in Hyde Park.

Over the weekend, a fight broke out near the 1,163-resident migrant shelter at the former Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Court, just the latest brawl to be caught on camera outside one of the high-population shelters downtown. With the city buckling under the growing number of migrants — 12 buses carrying 560 more asylum hopefuls arrived this weekend — and no sign of the influx slowing down, ...

Migrant advocates worry about all the unanswered questions in the mayor’s proposed plan to move migrants from Chicago police stations to tent shelters.

Protesters in Chicago took to the streets to condemn the police killing of Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old Latinx boy, after bodycam video released by the Chicago police showed Toledo had his hands up in the air when a police officer shot him dead on March 29. Police initially described the incident as an "armed confrontation," but the video shows Toledo raised his hands after being ordered to do so. He was killed within 20 seconds of the officer leaving his car to chase him down a dark alley follow...

A therapists network supports immigrants, advocates during pandemic  The Latinx Therapists Action Network, with a presence in 20 US states, works with therapists committed to supporting immigrant communities and the movements allied with them. Francisca Porchas, an immigration rights activist, attends a protest outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to fight deportations. Credit: Share Editors note: This article was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health...