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Chicago Mexican Independence Day Parade is back in Little Village after 3 year hiatus despite rain
CHICAGO (WLS) — The sights and sounds of Mexico have been in Chicago as Little Village’s Mexican Independence Day Parade roll down twenty sixth Road Sunday. It was straightforward to neglect that it has been three years because the final time it was held.
“Ever since I can keep in mind, my mother used to deliver me right here after I was little and I feel it is necessary to maintain the traditions going, particularly after the parade was gone for therefore lengthy,” stated paradegoer Lizet Acuña. “So now, it is good to expertise it, now myself as a mother.”
“I grew up on this neighborhood. I like this parade. I used to come back right here on a regular basis,” stated fellow paradegoer Cindy Martinez. “We do not dwell right here anymore. We dwell in Valencia in Spain. We got here out right here to go to the household and are available to the parade. We simply like it and we actually miss Little Village.”
So what if it was a bit wet. For a second, the torrential downpour that preceded the festivities threatened to maintain onlookers away, however proper at midday, as if on cue, the rain subsided and the crowds got here out. Mybe not as quite a few as in earlier editions, however as pleased and energetic as ever.
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“It is actually good. We get pleasure from it. We don’ care. We’re right here to get together,” stated paradegoer Luis Muñoz. “That is the Mexican spirit proper right here.”
“My daughter is half Asian and I am Hispanic, and I feel it is necessary for her to know the place her different half of the roots are,” stated Yasmin Acuña.
Already in its 51st yr, the parade kicked off with a remembrance of the September 11 terrorist assaults 21 years in the past in the present day.
Organized by the Little Village Chamber of Commerce, the Mexican Independence Day Parade is all about preserving traditions, whereas additionally celebrating the lives that numerous immigrants have made for themselves right here in america.
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“All of us come right here with the American dream and folks need to have a profitable life right here however we always remember our roots,” stated Manuel Martinez, with the Little Village Chamber of Commerce.
For those who do need to catch the parade in its entirety, ABC7 will probably be broadcasting it Sunday at 11 p.m.
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FILE photograph: View of the Chicago Hearth Division, the third largest municipal hearth division in america of America, within the Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2014.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.
The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.
The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.
After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.
It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.
The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.
“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”
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“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”
“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”
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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.
“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”
However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.
Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.
The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.
The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.
However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.
This story is breaking and can be up to date.
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