
Carolyn Stein
Emerging News Reporter at The Courier News
Emerging News Reporter at Chicago Tribune
She/Her | Early career journalist @chicagotribune | Formerly @mlnow @mercnews @sfchronicle @StanfordDaily | RT's ≠ endorsement
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Carolyn Stein
The Chicago area will see several waves of rainstorms Tuesday and Wednesday before a weekend of summer heat, according to the National Weather Service. The rainstorms are expected to hit Tuesday afternoon and will affect northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana. It is not clear yet which specific areas will be hit by the rainstorms, but Chicagoans should not rule out getting hit. “It’s kind of like a feast or famine.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Carolyn Stein |Nell Salzman
Natalia Cardenas, 28, cried on Father’s Day. The Cardenas family arrived in Chicago from Colombia three years ago and believed Jose Manuel, 49, was reporting for a routine appointment as part of the asylum process — a form of protection for people fleeing danger in their home countries. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained Cardenas’ father. After that, their calls to him stopped going through.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Carolyn Stein
A teenager was killed in a drive-by shooting Sunday morning in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, according to Chicago police. The shooting took place in the 7600 block of South Prairie Avenue around 4:03 a.m. Police said that the teenager, 17, was standing near the sidewalk when he was approached by a dark-colored car. At least one person inside the car shot at the teenager before fleeing westbound on 76th Street.
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2 weeks ago |
thebrunswicknews.com | Carolyn Stein
CHICAGO - Defensores de los inmigrantes se manifestaron el domingo para pedir el fin de las agresivas redadas del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos en Chicago y denunciaron la supuesta cooperación de la policía de Chicago en los arrestos realizados el miércoles.
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2 weeks ago |
chicagotribune.com | Carolyn Stein
As President Donald Trump revamps his promised nationwide crackdown on immigration, federal authorities are taking more aggressive measures to detain undocumented immigrants, including arresting people at check-in appointments and during court hearings. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and chief architect of Trump’s immigration policies, said late last month that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should make at least 3,000 arrests a day.
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