No one really knows what’s going on with the Tea Party, but whether or not you buy into its rather complex political message, you have to admit that they’ve drawn a lot of attention. Read more…
Executive chef Julio Mercado has overseen the opening of five restaurants in Chicago in the last 10 years. For a top restaurant, Mercado interviewed 500 applicants to fill 65 kitchen positions. Read more…
Immigration advocates rallied in front of the Illinois Republican Party headquarters today in hopes of getting GOP U.S. Senate nominee Mark Kirk to support the DREAM Act. Read more…
Immigrant groups in Chicago rejoiced Wednesday after learning that the most controversial sections of Arizona's immigration law had been temporarily blocked. Read more…
The federal judge who ruled on Arizona’s tragic, noxious new immigration law on Wednesday did not stop all of it from taking effect Thursday, but she preliminarily halted the worst of it. And although appeals are certain, Judge Susan Bolton offered clear and well-reasoned arguments affirming the federal government’s final authority over immigration enforcement. We hope this is the beginning of the end of the misbegotten Arizona rules and what they represent. Read more…
A federal judge in Arizona on Wednesday broadly vindicated the Obama administration’s high-stakes move to challenge that state’s tough immigration law and to assert the primary authority of the federal government over state lawmakers in immigration matters. Read more…
(Reuters) - Nearly 40 million Americans received food stamps -- the latest in an ever-higher string of record enrollment that dates from December 2008 and the U.S. recession, according to a government update. Read more…
