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Illinois News Roundup - January 19, 2024
Our local news check-in includes efforts to put the brakes on migrant busses arriving in DeKalb. Plus, building the world's largest Monopoly board in Macomb.
![Hot dogs are served to migrants, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, outside a Northside police station where they live in a small tent community in Chicago.](/images/uploads/_small/Migrants_Wintry_Weather_23305715776408.jpg)
January 5, 2024 Illinois News Roundup: Migrant crisis in Illinois
More than 33,000 asylum-seekers have been transported from Texas to Chicago. We talked about the struggle to care for them.
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Challenges Of Higher Education Growing Up In A Migrant Family
Frida Arellano never thought that she would call Arcola, Illinois home. Until her family moved here from McAllen, Texas to find work and hope for a better life.