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Federal agents released preschool teacher Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano last night, freeing the beloved local educator whose arrest at a North Center day care made international news. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released her after a federal judge ruled that her mandatory detention without bond was illegal.

Santillana’s case has generated widespread backlash. In a video circulated online, federal agents are seen pulling the screaming woman, a mother of two from Colombia, through the glass vestibule at the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center in North Center, the morning of Nov. 5.

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Plans for public park at site of lakefront dump on Southeast Side announced

After a decadeslong environmental justice fight, city officials and community activists gathered yesterday on the Southeast Side to announce plans for a 43-acre lakefront park at the site of a toxic landfill that’s been operating along Lake Michigan for 40 years.

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On any day during her eight years as first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama said she could go from giving a speech to meeting with a counterpart from another country to digging in her vegetable garden with groups of schoolchildren. And her clothes had to be ready for that.

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