Kennis Inpante, of Venezuela, gives Baris Ayyoyo, of Venezuela, a haircut outside the former Wadsworth Elementary School in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood on May 18, 2023.
Kennis Inpante, of Venezuela, gives Baris Ayyoyo, of Venezuela, a haircut outside the former Wadsworth Elementary School in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood on May 18, 2023. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
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CHICAGO -- On a recent sunny afternoon in Chicago's Woodlawn area, more than a dozen men from Venezuela gathered in a parking lot outside a shuttered elementary school that is now a shelter for migrants, kicking a soccer ball and blaring music from cars. Jeisson Gutierrez Rojas, 27, sat on a bench and scrolled through his phone. Wearing a bucket hat and black blazer, he said he fled his home ...
