Click above on the words Summer Snapshots 2010 Chicago buzzes in the summer. You feel it along the lakefront, on…

As part of Immigrant Connect’s goal to bring together the personal stories that emerge from the multiple immigrant communities in…

Immigrants tend to worry about their kids. After all, for many, that’s why they came to the United States. Will the opportunities be there? Will they fit in? Will they fit in too well and abandon their roots?

The Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti has refocused attention on the world’s trauma victims. They are far too many to count, and the aftershocks to them, their families, and the world around them are immeasurable, yet numbingly real and lasting.

This is the first in a collection of brief digests of stories appearing in some of the city’s ethnic media….

With more than 1.7 million people of foreign birth living in Illinois, no issue except for immigration reform seems as critical as who gets counted and what the census will tell us about our immigrant communities.

For many Chicago immigrants, the American dream is one of being in two places at once, living here and staking a claim to the future of the country they don’t have to leave behind.