November 16 - 22, 2020

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We are replacing our usual calendar with recommendations from StreetWise vendors, readers and staff to keep you entertained at home!

The SportsWise Team discusses the WNBA and the NBA.

Cover Story: Ella Jenkins

Chicago legend Ella Jenkins has been making music together with her audiences for over six decades. Ella is aptly nicknamed “The First Lady of Children’s Music” and often credited with being the founder of the genre. She has inspired countless music makers, educators and artists. Inspired herself as a child growing up on the South Side by her Uncle Floyd who played blues harmonica, she was naturally drawn to rhythm from a young age. While Jenkins has lived in Chicago for the majority of her life, her work reaches far beyond and her music has always drawn from various cultures across the globe. The themes Ella introduces through her work are tools for survival and important values to remember for children and adults. The music teaches mindfulness, togetherness and communication. It honors the practice of creativity and the spirit of participation.

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Inside StreetWise

Remnants of the century-old Kenwood railway line are reimagined as an urban walkway in an IIT student project discussed during Open House Chicago.

Poetry by StreetWise Vendor Lady David Tillman.

The Playground ON THE COVER & THIS PAGE: Ella Jenkins photos courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways.

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ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time.

To be featured in a future edition, send your recommendations of what to do at home and why you love them to: Creative Director / Publisher Dave Hamilton at dhamilton@streetwise.org

See Chicago Dance!

South Chicago Dance Festival The South Side’s top professional dance companies will be performing at the second annual South Chicago Dance Festival as part of the South Chicago Dance Theatre’s fourth season, “Honoring Tradition, Elevating the Voices of Our Time.” The performance will be streamed virtually on November 21 from 7 - 8:30 p.m. General admission is $15 with a $2.55 fee. Performers include: South Chicago Dance Theatre, Simantikos Dance Chicago, Yin He Dance, Praize Productions Inc., Banks Performance Project, Ebony Vision Dance Ensemble, Ground Rhythm Dance Project, and Choomna Dance Company. Learn more at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/south-chicago-dance-festival-tickets-86292869295

Midday Crafting!

(HOME) ENTERTAINMENT

Afternoon Knitters Virtual Meetup A virtual knitting club meets every 3rd Thursday of the month. The next meeting will be 1 - 3 p.m. Thursday, November 19 via Zoom. There is a $1 fee per session to cover the cost of using meetup.com and zoom. For more information, visit: www.meetup.com/chicago-knitters-unite/events/jrxxvrybcpbzb/

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Bronzeville Tour!

Virtual Tour | Bronzeville: The Black Chicago Renaissance The Great Migration made its biggest impact on Chicago in Bronzeville, which was the city’s center of African American culture from the 1920s through the 1950s. Forced to live within tight boundaries due to unfair regulations, a diverse mix of more than 300,000 residents at its height with laborers, businessmen, domestic workers, and artists all living together produced music and art and were busy in activism and industry on the South Side. Inspired by both The Great Migration and The Great Depression, Bronzeville artists of the 1930s and ’40s depicted the world around them on canvas, with paper and pen, and through musical instruments.

Join Dr. Christopher Reed, professor emeritus at Roosevelt University, for an exploration of the locations and working conditions of Chicago steel mills, factories, stockyards, and private homes that compelled literary and visual artists and musicians to create works of art that still resonate today. $5; Free for Chicago History Museum members. Tour runs about 1 hour; Zoom link provided after registration at www.chicagohistory.org/event/bronzeville-renaissance/

History Explained!

Urban History Seminar Series The next session of Chicago History Museum's Urban History Seminar Series will take place on November 19 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. Deborah Kanter of Albion College will present “Chicago Católico: Making/Unmaking Mexican Parishes.” The session will be free of charge. The museum requests that attendees RSVP by Tuesday, November 17.

To register, visit: https://www.chicagohistory.org/event/urban-history-seminar-10/

Christmas Spirit!

ZooLights The most wonderful time of the year deserves the most wonderful occasion of the year, so celebrate the holidays at ZooLights. Presented By ComEd and Invesco QQQ. This one-ofa-kind, festive holiday experience offers a merry, family-oriented tradition in the heart of the city.

ZooLights will feature hundreds of luminous displays and incredible seasonal activities, all under the glow of millions of illuminated lights, plus reduced capacity admission to keep your family safe.

This year, ZooLights will follow City and State guidelines to ensure a safe experience that allows social distancing.

Tickets will cost $5 per guest to support Lincoln Park Zoo’s dedication to wildlife and conservation. All guests, including children and infants, must have a ticket to enter ZooLights, and groups cannot exceed 10 people.

Please dress warmly, as animal buildings will be closed; however, animals may be visible in their outdoor habitats.

There will be 5 free nights (Nov 24, Dec 9, 17, 21, & 29) with tickets released the Sunday prior, on a first-come first-served basis. Visit lpzoo.org to learn more.

Natural History!

Smithsonian Virtual Tours The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is based in Washington, D.C. It is offering virtual tours of the museum on the website.

Options include: Permanent Exhibits, Current Exhibits, Past Exhibits, Narrated Tours, other Smithsonian tours, and access to the Museum Support Center and Research Stations. Users have the ability to click on arrows in order to virtually “walk through” the museum.

Visit naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour to take part!

Back on Track!

From Records to Reentry Webinar Series Job seekers with criminal records face unique, unjust and often overwhelming challenges to finding employment. This is an abbreviated version of training that focuses on an overview of the Illinois Criminal Justice System and Cabrini Green Legal Aid’s “Know Your Rights” presentation. Through this two-part webinar series, learn to better support returning citizens in navigating this complex system and accessing available resources. After attending this training, you will be able to: navigate the Illinois Criminal Justice System; help your job seekers identify what legal remedy resources are available to them; understand how legal remedy resources have changed in the time of COVID-19.

Register for FREE at https://cjc.z2systems.com/np/clients/cjc/event.jsp?event=3300

-Compiled by Dave Hamilton & Nina Rothschild

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Vendors Russ Adams, John Hagan and Donald Morris chat about the world of sports with Executive Assistant Patrick Edwards.

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The Chicago Sky &

Don: As always, welcome, folks, to this week’s edition of SportsWise! Today, we’re discussing something that’s near and dear to my heart: the WNBA. Well, we’ll touch on both the WNBA and the NBA. If you guys don’t mind, I would love to kick this off.

John: Go 'head!

Russ: Speak.

Patrick: I’m with the fellas, Don. Don: Well, I'm going to focus on my favorite team: Our very own Chicago Sky. This year, we’ll have two new faces: The first is Ruthy Hebard.

Ruthy is a forward in her second year. In her first year with the Sky, she didn’t have outrageous stats, but folks noticed her. And she can be good, so I can’t wait to see her perform in this upcoming season. Her numbers were solid for a parttime starter: nearly 6 points a game, 4 rebounds per, 75% free throw shooting. Definitely anticipating this year.

Russ: Who’s the second?

Don: The second is Stefanie Dolson, a center. Now, Stefanie and Ruthy had similar numbers: 6.4 points per game, a little over 3 rebounds per, 2

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assists, and also a very good free throw shooter. Both of these players will be good and will perform well with effort and focus—I see this.

Patrick: Don, I’m liking what I’m hearing. I didn’t quite follow them as in years past, but I always root for them. Maybe those two and Courtney Vandersloot, Allie Quigley, Diamond DeShields, Jantel Lavender, Azurá Stevens, can combine with Stefanie and Ruthy to comprise a Monster 7.

Don: That’s what I’m saying.

Russ: Y’all know I’m on this bandwagon. Been feeling a certain kind of way for this team. Went from the women of DePaul’s basketball team to the professionals—love 'em both.

John: Y’all know I’m not a WNBA fan; however, looking over the team’s individual stats—especially the starters—these players up and down the roster are very, very

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good…and I can only see the other pieces becoming better.

To progress into an all-star, players need this element of progress. Vandersloot – even though immensely talented from the beginning – has improved in her time…and, without a doubt, will get better. Maybe I can muster up a little excitement for the upcoming season. We’ll see.

Russ: Right!

Patrick: Hey, so what do you guys think about the upcoming NBA season? The debate of when to begin the season?

I’ve heard December 22 and mid-January.

John: Near Christmas Day is far and above the best of the two. The reason? If you open it up in January, the NBA is going up against the NFL playoffs—probably not good, because we all know the NFL playoffs will win every time.

Don: You know what? One thing I worry about with a December start is that it gives

those teams that did pretty well in the playoffs—the Lakers, Nuggets, Heat, etc.—a huge disadvantage: They will have had nowhere close to the time to recuperate as those who were dropped from the playoffs quick and in a hurry.

Patrick: Good point, Don. Hadn’t thought about that part of things. So, I don’t know…I’m a huge—I mean, huge—fan of Christmas Day basketball games, so for that reason I would love to have the Lakers play that day, regardless of rested or not; however, as a fan of the game, I’d prefer as close to fairness as we can get. But I’m gonna go with Christmastime—final answer.

Russ: Listen, I love my sports; shoot, that’s why I do SportsWise. So just give me whatever sports, whenever, wherever, and I’m happy.

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ELLA 'CHILDREN

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by Kathleen Hinkel

“You’ll sing a song and I’ll sing a song. And we’ll sing a song together.” So go the lyrics of Ella Jenkins’ signature composition.

In a new documentary film about Ella entitled “We’ll Sing a Song Together,” music educator Thomas Moore offers this analysis, “You’ll sing a song. I’ll sing a song. And we’ll sing a song together. And that togetherness will save us.”

For over 60 years Chicago’s Ella Jenkins has been making music together with her audiences. Her music explores themes instrumental to survival. Togetherness. Mindfulness.

Communication. The practice of creativity. The spirit of participation.

“You’ll sing a song and I’ll sing a song,” from her 1966 album, is an illustration of the philosophy behind Ella’s approach to making music for children. When we sing together, we apply values of human connection. We listen to each other, learn from each other and we work together.

In the uncertain space we find ourselves living in at the end of 2020, stories of individuals like Ella can provide a hopeful path forward.

Ella has introduced thousands of children to the magical world of making music and 39-year-old local filmmaker Tim Ferrin was once one of those children. For the past few years he has been working to bring her story to the screen.

Tim was introduced to Ella’s music many years ago by his elementary school music teacher and mentor Fred Koch. In 2014, Tim had a chance run-in with his teacher who planted the idea of making a documentary film about Ella. Tim was intrigued by the idea and shortly after, he bumped into Ella herself at Old Town School of Folk Music. He took it as a sign and has been working on the project ever since. Tim has interviewed over 40 people on a quest to justly capture the influence of Ella, who is widely regarded as the 20th century's most prolific children’s musician.

With no formal music training, Ella pioneered a genre: children’s music. Through her career she has amassed a discography of 40 albums on the Smithsonian Folkways label and earned herself the nickname the “First Lady of Children’s Music.” This year, StreetWise recognized Ella as one of the 20 most inspiring Chicagoans, which is the latest in a career of accolades, including a 2004 Grammy Award for Lifetime

Achievement and being named a 2017 Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts.

“One of the big takeaways is that she has lived her life both personally and professionally with great integrity. She’s a great example of how to live within a community,” Tim says when discussing why Ella’s story is important to tell. “Positivity and change starts at a very local level and that’s something Ella embodies. We learn from one another and we do it together.”

For all her achievements, very little has been produced, written or filmed about Ella herself. “The more I dug the less I found, other than her extensive catalogue,” says Tim. “It’s not always the people that make the biggest contribution that get the most notoriety,” says early childhood education expert Barbara Bowman in one clip from the film.

Tim began conducting the first of many interviews with Ella in 2014. A month after he began filming his oldest daughter was born. A couple of years into the project he had another child. Having young children himself and seeing Ella interact with them has broadened Tim’s understanding of Ella’s gift.

“It’s been amazing to connect with Ella on an adult level but to really see how she connects with children. It’s been a family affair.”

“The way she communicates has maximum impact.” says Tim. “She’s a facilitator. She’s someone who can come into a place and get everybody cooperating and that is a very special skill.”

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The brilliance of Ella’s brand of communicating with children is its simplicity.

Ella grew up on the South Side of Chicago and her earliest exposure to music was listening to her Uncle Floyd Johnson (affectionately nicknamed Uncle Flood) play the blues on the harmonica. Ella loved music and before ever owning an instrument would make sounds with whatever was available around the house. She has early memories of seeing Cab Calloway perform and loved the thrill of partaking in the call and response “hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi!” Ella uses that same call and response technique to connect with children. Through call and response she is able to involve children in the process of making music.

Bernadelle Richter has been managing Ella for 59 years and reiterates that Ella’s magic is rooted in simple concepts.

“She’s a listener. She loves people. She pays attention. She lives in the present. She keeps it pretty simple. She has a very positive attitude about things. It’s helpful to be around people like that.” Being a good listener and truly liking other people are two things Bernadelle kept returning to when talking about her friend. She mentioned that Ella understands that “you’re not gonna get anything done unless you unify and have to listen to each other.” That understanding is at the core of Ella’s approach to making music with others.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree in sociology at San Francisco State University, with minors in child psychology and recreation, Ella returned to Chicago, where she got a job as a program director for teenagers at the YWCA. In this role she began writing songs as a way to connect with children.

This eventually led to a local television appearance and the release of her first album in 1957 titled Call-and-Response Rhythmic Group Singing. Before 1957 there weren’t full time

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professional musicians making music for kids. Ella was the first; today there are thousands.

“Making music for kids.

Oh, it’s like a higher calling,”

Ella’s music has always drawn rhythm and influence from various cultures and made a point to engage the audience with an understanding of diversity. Lynn Orman, a publicist and friend who has worked with Ella for over 30 years, says of Ella: “she coined the phrase multiculturalism. She put the word ‘diversity’ in music before there was diversity in music.” Her 1995 album Multicultural Children’s Songs is among her most popular albums and reflects this diversity.

The album features greetings in many languages, African call and response, a Mexican hand clapping song, traditional Jewish songs, Native American songs and a yodeling song.

- Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy

Over the years, Ella became a fixture on various children’s television programs including Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, Sesame Street and Barney. In the trailer for “We’ll Sing a Song Together,” Sesame Street’s Bob McGrath calls Ella “a walking legend of making American music for children.”

When Tim interviewed Mr. Rogers Neighborhood producer Margy Whitmer about Ella, she explained that Fred Rogers was always looking for concepts that were “simple and deep.” A perfect way to describe Ella’s music.

Orman has long been hoping for a feature length film about Ella. Long before she began working with Ella in the late 80s, Lynn was using Ella’s music as an early childhood educator.

One day a friend offered to introduce her to Ella and she was thrilled. “Some people have Mick Jagger or Janis Joplin. For me it was Ella Jenkins. She was my rockstar.”

OPPOSITE PAGE: Top Left: Director of Photography Aaron Hui, Ella Jenkins and Director Tim Ferrin at the dedication of Ella Jenkins Park in Old Town.

Middle Left: Ella greets a fan at NAEYC conference while the camera looks on.

Bottom Left: Ella demonstrating a tune on-air at WNUR studios. Production photo

by Tim Ferrin.

Top Right: L-R Back Row, Smithsonian Folkways Staff, Middle Row: Tim Ferrin and Bernadelle Richter, Front Row: Director of Photography Aaron Hui, Ella Jenkins, Cameraman David Wolff at the NAEYC Annual Conference Bottom Right: Tim Ferrin and Ella Jenkins watch a performance in tribute to Ella.

Photo by Mark Silgalis.

THIS PAGE: Lynn Orman Weiss presents Ella with the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Chicago Music Awards. Photo by Marcey Abramowitz.

Top Right: Ella Jenkins with Jason McInnes and The Young Stracke Allstars when Ella received her coveted National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment For The Arts. Photo by Tom Pich.

Lynn began working closely with Ella soon after meeting her and went along when Ella received a Lifetime Acheivement Award from the Grammys in 2004. At the ceremony people got up to get their awards and Ella was offered a chair and declined saying, “no because I stand for children.”

Lynn is the person who nominated Ella to be named one of the 20 most inspiring Chicagoans this year. “She instills confidence and pride in the kids and in the parents and the teachers and that’s why I nominated her,” she said.

This year Ella turned 96 and Lynn put together a video of musicians singing and playing songs for Ella from various areas across the country.

Ella’s influence among musicians and educators is well documented through Tim’s interviews in the film.

“Making music for kids. Oh, it’s like a higher calling,” says Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy in a trailer clip for the film. “Having met a lot of different artists over the years, there are certain artists that you look at them and you think they’re not working really hard to make themselves better; they’re working really hard to make us better.”

“She’s the only person I ever stood in line to meet and get an autograph from in my life,” says Sue Tweedy before turning to Jeff and adding, “No offense.”

“She’s an unrecognized giant in American music,” says harp guitarist and diretor emeritus of Smithsonian Folkways Tony Seeger.

“In a weird way her music does transcend the children’s music genre,” muses Venezuelan American singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart.

Roger McGuinn of the Byrds credits Ella with getting him his first job in music.

The interviews touch on Ella’s ability to open minds to possibilities of learning. Artist Suni Paz says that Ella’s music “opens up their minds, their understanding - the desire to learn more.”

Conductor Alan Pierson remembers being influenced by Ella as a child. “I think of Ella Jenkins as the first emotional connection I had to music and maybe the first time that music became something I could be a part of that I could participate in. She’s getting it into kids' minds that making music is not just for professionals. Music is ours, it’s yours and we can make it together.”

That concept, the value of participation, is something to take from Ella’s story. In life, beyond music, the act of participating rewards beyond measure. The 1966 album “You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song” includes the song, “This Train,” which Ella often sings. It’s another song that embodies the spirit of her music, the spirit of participation. In a recent video Ella plays the harmonica and sings the song... “This train is bound for glory. Children get on board.”

To get on board with the production of the documentary “We’ll Sing A Song Together,” you can visit http://www.singasongtogether.com/ to make a donation or purchase Ella Jenkins merchandise.

Kathleen Hinkel is a journalist, photographer and music lover based in Chicago - learn more at kathleenhinkel.com www.streetwise.org

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Open House Chicago: A Dream vision for the K

by Octavio Cuesta De la Rosa

FROM THE STREETS

One hundred years ago, Kenwood boasted its very own railway line, running from Indiana Avenue & 40th Street to 42nd Place & Oakenwald Avenue, but today, all that remains of the Old Kenwood Line are the concrete bunkers and monoliths that bisect the community. These segments have since become unique neighborhood fixtures, some embedded into city blocks and adorned with murals, others carving through residential areas. Otherwise, though, the remains of the Old Kenwood Line offer little to Kenwood’s residents.

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Inspired by the City of Chicago’s INVEST South/West initiative, Illinois Institute of Technology graduate Migel Santos and the Chicago Architecture Center’s Open House Chicago presented “A New Vision for the Kenwood Line,” an unsanctioned project that envisions a massive rehabilitation of the Old Kenwood Line to bring socioeconomic equity and opportunity to a young, working class and predominantly African-American neighborhood. INVEST South/ West aims to coordinate public and private efforts to invest in marginalized communities of color on the South and West Sides. Under this framework, Santos worked as part of a larger group that sought to revitalize the community along the Old Kenwood Line by addressing key issues such as affordable housing, public greenspace and economic opportunity, with Santos focusing specifically on a corridor running from the I-94 Interstate to King Drive. The Indiana Green Line stop and the derelict bunker beneath its tracks serve as the focal point for his vision.

Santos and his team conducted extensive community outreach to identify key infrastructure needs. According to Santos, the community’s greatest issue is the lack of available commercial spaces, preventing local entrepreneurs from working and investing in their own community. Santos has aptly termed the lack of available commercial spaces as “barriers to entry” into the local economy. In addition to these “barriers to entry,” Santos also cited a worrying trend of bigbox stores and mom-and-pop shops alike leaving the area.

His concept intends to address this issue by redeveloping the Indiana Green Line station with commercial spaces at and above track level, before gradually filling the corridor from

I-94 to King Drive with further commercial developments.

Santos also identified a lack of accessible public space.

His concept calls for the expansion of alleyways throughout the I-94–King Drive corridor to create broader footpaths adorned with greenery, allowing local residents to benefit from a safer and more walkable environment. In addition to the green alleyways, Santos also intends to make the greenery that has sprouted atop the concrete bunkers accessible to the public with a series of staircases and atriums that connect to the Indiana Green Line station’s track level.

Santos’ concept for the creation of more public space also has a cultural aspect. Citing the Museum of Contemporary Art’s long-standing need for a vault, Santos also proposes that the hollow interior of the concrete bunker beneath the Indiana station be rehabilitated to serve as an MCA vault open to the public. The MCA has not made a comment as this is still an unsanctioned project, but such a rehabilitation would effectively transform the station into a community cultural center while also meeting the MCA’s needs.

Another Santos idea for the lack of accessible public space is the development of privately-owned public spaces. These structures would flank the Indiana Green Line station, and

Kenwood Line

while they would still provide public spaces for their community, their role as privately-owned structures would also provide some commercial spaces.

The architects of “A New Vision for the Kenwood Line” said that this ambitious project grounded itself heavily in feedback received through community outreach. Santos said this feedback directly influenced the kind of infrastructure envisioned both within and beyond the I94-King Drive corridor; his colleagues proposed parks and affordable housing further east along the Old Kenwood Line.

Nevertheless, despite the emphasis on socioeconomic equity, little time was devoted to mitigation of possible unwanted consequences, such as gentrification. The creation of a Community Benefits Agreement was only passingly mentioned. This lack of policy was largely attributed to the project being developed with the INVEST South/West initiative in mind. By

leaving public policy to the city, Santos and his team were able to focus exclusively on designing infrastructure.

Investment that tackles the inequities of the South and West sides is sorely needed and “A New Vision for the Kenwood Line” intends to provide equitable public and private investment. If this new vision becomes a reality, however, its architects cannot shirk from their duty. When the time comes, they must play an active role in developing the comprehensive policies that must be implemented to guarantee the socioeconomic equity and opportunity that was promised to Kenwood’s residents.

The top row, going from left to right: Abandoned Kenwood Line station, Southwest corner of South Lake Park Avenue & East 41st Street.

Mural on a portion of the Kenwood Line, Southwest corner of King Drive & East 40th Street.

Portion of the Kenwood Line, 3950 Block of South Vincennes Avenue, facing west.

Bend in the Kenwood Line, Southeast corner of South Langley Avenue & East 40th Street.

Alleyway walled off by the abandoned line, 400 block of East Oakwood Boulevard.

Bottom row, going left to right: Mural on a portion of the Kenwood Line, Southeast corner of South Drexel Boulevard & East 41st Street.

Mural on an abandoned Kenwood Line station, 400 Block of South King Drive, facing east.

Abandoned station, 3950 Block of South Vincennes Avenue, facing east.

Bend in the Kenwood Line, East 40th Street, between South Vincennes Avenue and South Langley Avenue, facing northeast.

CTA Indiana Green Line Station, abandoned Kenwood station in the foreground.

Octavio Cuesta De la Rosa is recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana/ Champaign, where he majored in history and minored in French and urban planning. He volunteers with the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps.

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TRANSITIONING MILITARY SKILLS INTO CIVILIAN CAREERS

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The recently widowed “Mother of America”—attended to by the very enslaved people who will be free the moment she dies—takes us deep into the ugly and thorny ramifications of America’s original sin.

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