At least 19 youngsters at Chicago immigrant detainee refuge

This article is copublished with ProPublica Illinois, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of energy. At least 19 youngsters and two workers at a Chicago refuge for immigrant early life have examined sure for COVID-19 in fresh days, in what seems to be the most important outbreak of the virus within the nation in shelters for unaccompanied minors. According to an e-mail despatched to workforce Sunday, Heartland Human Care Services officers mentioned the primary sure take a look at effects had been reported at its Bronzeville refuge on Friday and that further instances there have been showed over the weekend. On Monday, officers from Heartland Alliance, the umbrella nonprofit group that oversees the refuge program, showed the sure checks

Malachy Towey, Irish immigrant musician who performed the

When Malachy Towey beat on his drum, it will make an individual need to dance a jig — or march off to struggle. He most definitely used to be the oldest individual in Chicago to play the bodhran, a standard Irish tool comprised of a goatskin stretched over a spherical wood body. Accordionist Jimmy Keane mentioned he used to be “the first musician I ever saw play the bodhran with his massive hands and knuckles — no sticks, brooms nor brushes for Malachy — just straight from his heart to his hand.”