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by Aricka Flowers
2:19pm
Mon Jan 21
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Obama Kicks Off Second Term With Speech Addressing Progressive Issues

President Barack Obama kicked off his second term today with a speech that covered a plethora of progressive issues, including same-sex marriage, preserving the middle class, sustainable energy and climate change.

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by Aricka Flowers
2:47pm
Fri Jan 18

Obama Parlays Campaign Machine Into Grassroots Group (VIDEO)

President Barack Obama's well-oiled and successful grassroots-style campaign machine for election, and then re-election, will not fall fade into the ether now that he is set to be inaugurated on Sunday.

Instead, the heavily tech and social media dependent campaign will be turned into a grassroots non-profit called Organizing for Action with the aim of moving forward the issues and policies that united his supporters in the first place.

"We have the power to do even more to change our politics and our country for the better," President Obama wrote to supporters in an email announcing the new organization. "With Organizing for Action, you'll have every resource you need to do it. But it starts with you. This new organization is in your hands."

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by Ashlee Rezin
4:59pm
Thu Jan 17

Chicago Parent Mentor Program Expands Across The State (VIDEO)

Education

Logan Square Neighborhood Association’s Parent Mentor Program is expanding to 45 low-income schools across Illinois this spring, thanks to a $1 million grant from the Illinois State Board of Education and a partnership with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and other state-wide community organizations. Progress Illinois was there for the kick off the program's expansion. 

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by Ashlee Rezin
5:24pm
Fri Nov 16, 2012

Illinois Immigrant Detention Center Makes List Of Top 10 Worst Facilities

Tri-County Detention Center in Ullin, Illinois is one of the 10 worst immigrant detention centers in the country, according to a report issued yesterday by Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC).

The report, which claims U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lack oversight of the nation’s detention facilities, sites a 350-mile distance from Chicago and a depleted communication infrastructure, including broken phones and expensive calling cards, as causes to consider Tri-County an unacceptable place for housing immigrants.

Because of “ICE’s failure to hold the facility accountable and the ongoing human rights and due process violations” the report, part of the National Immigrant and Justice Center’s “Expose and Close” campaign, recommends that Tri-County be closed.

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