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National Guard members walk at U.S. ICE Broadview facility in Chicago, Illinois

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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Student Voices July 27 2015

Chicago to India: Finding hope in Delhi's slums

Chicago and the slums of India are similar. As you walk through each community, you see despair in both. But in India, I saw something I would have never thought was possible — I saw unity in poverty.

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Daily Video July 21 2015

Chicago debates how to stem gun violence

After seeing the murder rate drop over the past two years, Chicago police and residents have seen a startling rise in gun violence this summer, with dozens shot each weekend.

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