Good morning, Chicago. Esperanza Beatriz Mendez and her children fled Venezuela to escape an economic collapse that had shut down her kids’ schools and her city’s grocery stores. Their goal now: to make a new life in Chicago. The Mendez family trekked over 3,000 miles for more than seven weeks and survived Panama’s Darién Gap, a harrowing jungle where they watched, helpless and horrified, as .
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A truck towing what appeared to be a pair of house trailers pulled up to Parker Elementary School on Jan. 15, 1962. The aluminum structures, ordered by the Chicago Board of Education and built by Colonial Mobile Homes Manufacturing Co. of Hammond, were unhitched and joined together, creating a “mobile classroom.” The mobile home company’s president, Dominic Conte, was proud of the .
Palm Coast, FL - The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office apprehended 20 year-old Dominic Conte on Sunday after he robbed Kay Jewelers in Palm Coast. Conte asked an employee to examine an IOK Cuban link necklace. When he was handed the piece, he bolte.