VIA Times – February 2024 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

The Secretary of State’s office will offer driver, business and archive services, as well as a distracted driving simulator at this year’s Chicago Auto Show, Secretary Alexi Giannoulias announced. Attendees can attain various driver services, including applying for a REAL ...

Illegal immigration can be a dangerous and nasty business. In most cases, the trip is difficult and long, regardless of its intentions. Criminals who are looking to make money exploit migrants, and they take advantage of this situation by offering ...

Former President Donald Trump, who has refused to debate any of his rivals for the Republican nomination, on Monday said he wanted to debate U.S. President Joe Biden immediately. “I’d like to debate him now because we should debate. We ...

Certain copycat eyedrops may be contaminated and could give users an antibiotic-resistant eye infection, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday. The packaging for South Moon, Rebright and FivFivGo eyedrops mirrors the packaging for Bausch & Lomb’s Lumify eyedrops, ...

A new report shows that Illinois is on the hook for a tremendous amount of post-employment benefit liabilities. The American Legislative Exchange Council released its “Other Post-Employment Benefit Liability” report, which ranked Illinois 46th in the country. It shows that ...

New York, NY – The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) has released a new report, After a Decade of Decline, the US Undocumented Population Increased by 650,000 in 2022, by Robert Warren. This report describes estimates of ...

By: Maria Girlie Pascual   All I could think about was how shiny and clean the ceiling of the surgery room was at the Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights. The orderlies wheeled me in at 2:20 pm on October 12 ...

By: Richard Hanus   Federal lawsuit alleges state overreach as Texas enacts its own immigration enforcement statute Per the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent, it is well established that U.S. immigration law, from the enactment of legislation to ...

By: Edward Cortez   Phil Donahue and his wife, Marlo Thomas, co-wrote a book in 2000 and titled it, “What Makes A Marriage Last.” The book was the result of interviewing forty celebrated couples who shared their secrets to a happy ...

Tongue in cheek” humor is what has made Maria Girlie Pascual as the consummate emcee around our Filipino American community of Chicagoland. From debuts, to weddings, to golf banquets and our twenty-five years of the Chicago Filipino American Hall of ...