By Kate Endeley and Clara Lingle | January 14th, 2010 The level of participation by the Korean community in the 2010 U.S. Census may well be influenced by a new law in the Republic of Korea that for the first time allows Korean citizens living abroad to vote in national elections at home.
Written by Stephen on January 14, 2010
By Matthew Bellassai and Alex Hollander | January 14th, 2010 Crusaders will soon descend upon the community of Little Village, armed with cans of spray paint and posters to cover the walls of this Chicago neighborhood while its neighbors are sound asleep. These people aren’t vandals who seek to deface the city—it’s a city, in [...]
Written by Stephen on January 14, 2010
By Arianna Hermosillo and Nadine Shabeeb | January 14th, 2010 Grazyna Zajaczkowska pulls out an 1,832-page Polish Yellow Pages directory. The Director of Immigrant Services of the Polish American Association (PAA) in Chicago does it to underscore how many Polish-Americans live and work in and around Chicago. She puts the number at more than one [...]
Written by Stephen on January 14, 2010
Another profile of Chicago’s ethnic news media Esfuerzo de Amor By Angela Evans Sunlight streams through the windows of café Macondo in Chicago’s Lincoln Square. Beams of light dance across the warm, neutral shades and rich red tones of the walls, and on Spanish language posters. On one wall the shelves are jammed with books [...]
Written by Stephen on January 14, 2010
Chicago’s Haitian community is linked by two radio stations, and they will be talking about what the earthquake has meant to their island this weekend. There will be a specially long broadcast from 4:30 p.m to midnight by Frantz Remy on WHPK, 88.5 fm, on Saturday. And Euniel Mondesir will talk about the situation from [...]
Written by Stephen on January 13, 2010
Emmanuel Owusu arrived in the U.S. from Ghana on a student visa in 1972. He spent most of his next 33 years in Chicago and was a legal permanent resident. But U.S. immigration officials picked him up in 2006 because of a 1979 conviction for misdemeanor battery and retail theft, according to a story in [...]
Written by admin on January 10, 2010
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