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By Sean Powers /Illinois Public Media -- Angelina Lopez, 47, is a single mother in central Illinois who came into the U.S. illegally 10…
By Azra Halilovic /CU-CitizenAccess.org / Hoy -- Last December, the CU-Immigration Forum held a public meeting at the Champaign Public Library to discuss the…
By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein/Hoy --- Latinos in Urbana and Champaign make up 5 and 6 percent of the population, respectively, and, from 2007 to…
By Pam G. Dempsey/CU-CitizenAccess -- Over the past decade there has been a deep demographic shift in Central Illinois as the population of Hispanics and…
Pam G. Dempsey / CU-CitizenAccess.org and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein / Hoy -- The barber shop in Pirtle’s Mini-Mall on Fourth Street is the kind…
By Pam G. Dempsey / CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Socorro Alvarez can name off each country of origin where the small trinkets of gratitude came from…
There is salsa dance night at Radio Maria and Cowboy Monkey in downtown Champaign. Latino food trucks pepper the landscape across Champaign- Urbana. An…
By Azra Halilovic / CU-CitizenAccess.org / Hoy-- It was 40 years ago that 7-year-old Herlinda Kauffman squeezed into a brown Chevy Impala in Mexico…
By Azra Halilovic / CU-CitizenAccess.org / Hoy -- Out in the middle of farm country in Central Illinois, Arturo Zendeja and his wife run…
Editor's note: This series is funded by the Marguarite Casey Foundation Pam G. Dempsey/CU-CitizenAccess.org -- In 2002, food was a lot less expensive. So…
