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Esther Yoon-Ji Kang

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
5
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Sep 8, 2026
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Jul 27, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · By Esther Yoon-Ji Kang [month] [day], [year], [hour]:[minute][ampm] [timezone]

    Photos: What Operation Midway Blitz left behind (opens the original)

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    One year ago today, President Donald Trump’s administration sent hundreds of immigration agents into Chicago area communities with the stated goal of arresting and deporting immigrants who they accused of committing crimes. The surge at times felt like a siege. The deportation campaign was one that residents could see, hear and feel. Helicopters hovered overhead for hours. Unmarked SUVs — sometimes without license plates — patrolled the streets, full of agents in military-style clothes. Neighbor

  2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Esther Yoon-Ji Kang

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

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    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. South Shore Dr., a troubled apartment complex in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood

  3. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Esther Yoon-Ji Kang

    After their dad was deported, family works to keep his Humboldt Park sandwich shop and legacy alive (opens the original)

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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. Until last fall, he was a college student at Dominican University who loved watching football and sending Instagram reels to

  4. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Esther Yoon-Ji Kang

    Students spread the word to strapped Chicago renters about their shot at buying in the neighborhood (opens the original)

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    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. Seven tenant groups we

  5. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Esther Yoon-Ji Kang

    Chicago renters’ rights are at stake in dueling City Hall proposals (opens the original)

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