Latinos cited more than others for driving without a license
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 Jeff Kelly Lowenstein/Hoy --- Latinos in Urbana and Champaign make up 5 and 6 percent of the population, respectively, and, from 2007 to…
This is a look overall at closed federal deportation cases that have resulted in either voluntary or removal departure orders since Fiscal Year 2008. Though the orders nationwide have sharply declined, Illinois ranks number nine in the top 10 states for deportation orders .
By Azra Halilovic / CU-CitizenAccess.org / Hoy -- Out in the middle of farm country in Central Illinois, Arturo Zendeja and his wife run…
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…
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 Pam G. Dempsey / CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Socorro Alvarez can name off each country of origin where the small trinkets of gratitude came from…
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…
Editor's note: This series is funded by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. By Pam G. Dempsey -- Robin Arbiter is a long-time resident of the…
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…
Editor's note: This series is funded by the Marguarite Casey Foundation. By Pam G. Dempsey -- Leodegario Olea and his wife, Rosa, sit inside…