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ICE operations keep Chicago-area school districts, families on edge

CHICAGO — Monica Perez scanned the street as she left Funston Elementary, five of her children in tow. She kept her head down, her family close. After school pickup was once a familiar routine — in recent weeks, though, fear had crept into the family’s life and festered. “Rápido,” Perez told her children, ushering them along Logan Square sidewalks. “Quickly.” Perez came to Chicago from Mexico in 2007 without authorization. All seven of her children, ages 7 to 16, were born in the U.S. But as federal immigration enforcement intensifies across the city, even the short walk from school feels dangerous. Perez mentally mapped their route, again and again: one block west, a few blocks north. They...


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