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Daily News Lesson June 09 2026

Why 'teen takeovers' are taking off

Examine potential solutions to teen takeovers
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Daily News Lesson March 18 2026

Chicago artists channel creativity into protesting the immigration crackdown

"I'm a child of immigrants. so, like, it's extremely personal. It could be me," says rapper Femdot
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Daily News Lesson February 18 2026

The legacy of Jesse Jackson

A look at Jesse Jackson's decades of civil rights advocacy
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Daily News Lesson October 10 2025

ICE escalates aggressive raids in Chicago as Trump moves to deploy National Guard

Learn more about ICE's raids and Trump's use of service members in American cities
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Daily News Lesson January 04 2024

Chicago leaders demand help from White House to deal with surge of migrants in city

Learn about ways some large cities are struggling with migrant arrivals
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Educator Voices October 04 2023

Educator voice: How this Chicago school encourages all students to be inventors

Hear from two Chicago teachers on how they motivate their students to see invention as solution to challenges
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Daily Video September 09 2016

Chicago community groups look for solutions to frequent gun violence
Despite targeted efforts to reduce gun violence, the city of Chicago has already experienced 500 homicides in 2016 — the most in a single year in over two decades.
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Daily Video December 29 2015

No charges for police in shooting of 12-year-old Cleveland boy
An Ohio grand jury decided not to indict the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy last year in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Daily Video November 25 2015

Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder of black teenager
A seventeen-year-old black teenager was shot 16 times by a white police officer in October of last year for allegedly puncturing a police car’s tire with a folding knife.
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Student Voices September 03 2015

Chicago youth finds common ground in India
As a black kid growing up in Chicago, some opportunities tend to be more open to me than others. I find aspects of my life experience limited due to my identity, whether or not I recognize it at the time.
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