To make some cash, migrants in Chicago are forced to get creative
“Manicures, cutting hair, cooking food, delivering food,” said WBEZ immigration reporter Adriana Cardona-Maguidad. “People really want to work and they want to have financial stability. And the path to get there, especially from the shelters – like you're new, you don't know your way around – can be extremely difficult.”
Cardona-Maguidad brings us her conversations with a few migrants as they’ve picked up work, from a mother selling candy at a busy intersection on Irving Park Road to a man washing windows for businesses on Montrose Avenue.
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