The Chicago music scene doesn’t beg for attention. It never has. That’s part of its charm, and part of its problem. Cities like Los Angeles…
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Lost in translation: ‘I would see everyone else writing while I just stared blankly at my paper’
When I was young, I lived in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago, but we moved to the Midway neighborhood when I was in…
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‘It felt like something was gnawing at my heart’; Columbia student copes with illness of a lifetime
It started as a normal week in the fall of 2020, but little did I…
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Let me tell you about where I grew up: How race and class shape our hometowns
Social justice artist Tonika Lewis Johnson’s response to the history of segregation in Chicago is visualized…
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From ballet lessons to 2-for-a-dollar chips, Hermosa will always be home
Around the age of three, I was enrolled in ballet classes. I don’t quite remember how this all started. I’m sure it was just one…
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Finding the right high school can change your life
I grew up on the north side of Minneapolis, in a mostly Black neighborhood. Although I was…
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‘Hanoi is the city where the past and present sit next to each other’
I’m an international student, and I didn’t grow up here in the States. My hometown is Hanoi, Vietnam, and…
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Culturally rich Little Village is home to vibrant business and close-knit neighbors
I grew up in Little Village for the first nine years of my life, but…