Activists are calling on the City of Chicago to take action to protect undocumented residents from ICE raids after a series of detentions targeting day laborers at Home Depot locations.

In a dark, crowded theater at the Davis Theater on Sunday afternoon, Uptown resident Eva Gurtovaia stood up, fighting back tears. Her husband, Enes Abek, a Kurdish asylum seeker from Turkey, was ...

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