The over 51,000 migrants who have arrived in Chicago face a dwindling safety net & backlogs in work permit & immigration cases. Meanwhile, Trump’s border czar said deportations will start “right here in Chicago.” Block Club Chicago Francia Garcia Hernandez Colin Boyle blockclubchicago.org/2024/12/18/tru…

Trump Wants To Deport Them. Chicago Is Scaling Back Help. Migrants Stuck In Limbo. blockclubchicago.org/2024/12/18/tru… via @BlockClubChi

“Migrants only qualify for.. work permits if they have temporary protective status or parole or if they’ve been in the country 150days after filing an asylum claim. & even if their app is approved, they typically..wait several months for permits b/c the.. system is so backlogged”

Great reporting from Mina Bloom , Francia Garcia Hernandez & Colin Boyle and a must read. A humanizing story about people struggling to find their footing as local government — and the feds — fail them.

STORY: City officials are winding down Chicago’s emergency response to the new arrivals. But the seemingly endless line outside of a state resource center in Humboldt Park is a visible reminder of the daily struggles thousands still face. via Block Club Chicago blockclubchicago.org/2024/12/19/the…

They wait and wait and wait. Some wait for hours. Some for days. Some for months. But the wait can be fruitless. In many cases, they leave with merely a piece of paper reminding them when to come back. Block Club Chicago blockclubchicago.org/2024/12/19/the…

The Best of Block Club 2024 ⭐ 📰 Block Club reporters and editors rounded up some of their favorite stories of 2024. Here are the stories that defined our year: buff.ly/3BQUrzO

“CPS schools — and many other public schools across the country — are hamstrung by funding constraints and a nationwide teacher shortage, education experts said.” With No Chemistry Teacher, Chicago Student Teaches Her Own Class: ‘They Forgot About Us’ blockclubchicago.org/2024/09/11/wit…

Former Sun-Times colleagues Becky Schlikerman and Kim Janssen lost their home in the LA wildfires. Help them get back on their feet: gofund.me/95f9a8dc

This huge news comes after many months of dogged reporting from Manny Ramos Mack Liederman about Carter's poor leadership & the system's failures Manny & Mack have covered it all, from Carter's pay hikes to his rubber stamp governing body blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/13/cta…

If anyone is curious, the previous President and CEO of Saint Anthony Hospital, a safety-net hospital serving mostly uninsured or Medicaid patients, made $771,365 in '22-'23 and $499,295 in other forms of compensation. Dorval Carter is probably in line for something similar.

Tomorrow is a day that, a decade ago, I thought wouldn't happen in Chicago. The district's first partially elected school board will take office — and they have a major slate of issues to tackle. But first, meet them here: chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/0…

🧵 Lots of great local investigative reporting here from our friends Block Club Chicago here. You look at all these stories — and ride the L — and you’ve got to wonder just how the CTA chief lasted as long as he did

very sad to see Chicago Reader, our cherished alt-weekly, facing "imminent risk of closure" i can't imagine a chicago without the reader. you should donate to keep this vital organization alive: chicagoreader.com/reader/press-r…

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s latest quarterly fundraising report is so eyepoppingly low that people in politics are asking if it’s a typo. (I asked a spokesperson who hasn’t got back to me.)

A judge who faced backlash after domestic violence rulings has been moved to traffic court. buff.ly/40ogPc3

I didn't realize when I took this photo in 2023 that it would get this much use blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/22/hun…

Incredibly proud of Block Club Chicago's Mina Bloom + Chalkbeat's Reema Amin, who are nominated for the Headline Club's A-Mark Prize for Dogged Reporting for their investigation "Lost In Translation: Migrant Kids Struggle In Segregated Chicago Schools." headlineclub.org/2025/02/07/fin…

A few years ago Byron Sigcho Lopez didn't like one of my stories so he filed a complaint with CPD internal affairs seeking to reveal the identity of one of my sources