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Reporter @WBEZ, Chicago’s @NPR station. I cover race, class, work, housing, Asian American issues. Twitter noob. Email: ekang at wbez dot org

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Nearly a year after the South Shore raid forced him from his home, one former resident is still homeless Original

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By Esther Yoon-Ji Kang Verified
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The ongoing impact of Trump's deportation campaign On a tree-lined street on Chicago’s South Side, Darren Hightower rearranges some items in the backseat of his decades-old Chevy Trailblazer. This SUV is where he’s been sleeping most nights recently. “I just lay my seat back in here, crack my windows [open],” he says. “I probably got some clothes back there, but I don’t make it look like I live in there.” Hightower is one of dozens of former residents of 7500 S.
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After their dad was deported, family works to keep his Humboldt Park sandwich shop and legacy alive.

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By Esther Yoon-Ji Kang Verified
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Nooran Amin knows the drill by now at the Best Sub #2 sandwich shop in Humboldt Park. On a stiflingly hot weekday morning, he opens the door, heads toward the kitchen and turns on the grill and the deep fryers. “Those two things take the longest to heat up,” he says. “Then, I turn on the lights, turn on the fans, take some fries out, take the burger buns out.” Nooran is 19.
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Students spread the word to strapped Chicago renters about their shot at buying in the neighborhood Original

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By Esther Yoon-Ji Kang Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
Many Chicago renters have been priced out of apartments in their neighborhoods over the past few decades. In eight neighborhoods over the last year, however, a city ordinance gives tenants a shot at buying their building if it goes up for sale. On the Northwest Side, where the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act has been in effect for more than a year, city officials say only one tenant association has purchased their building, out of hundreds of property sales in the area.
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