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Nell Salzman is on the Tribune’s Emerging News desk. She previously worked at KTNA radio in Talkeetna, Alaska, and Westword in Denver. Chicago is the fifth city she has lived in this year, and she is excited to tell its stories and visit its hot dog stands.
The Tribune traveled with Esperanza and her family from El Paso to Chicago Union Station to gain a better understanding of what migrants experience on the U.S. portion of their journey.
Headliners are Odesza on the T-Mobile stage and the K-pop band Tomorrow X Together on the Bud Light Stage, plus the rapper Pusha T in a day-ending set on the Perry’s stage.
More than 10,000 asylum-seekers, mostly from Venezuela, have arrived in Chicago since August. Long wait times required for federal work authorization mean it'll still be months before they can get work permits, forcing many to take jobs under the table.