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| Web Exclusive: A Father's Love |
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| Ina Pinkney talks to her friend Edith about her choldhood with polio. |
| Compassion of the People |
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| Joel Farran brought his father, Ramzi Farran, to the StoryCorps MobleBooth in order to document his father’s unique life. |
| Becoming American |
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| Jennifer White Lee brought her mother, Dorothy White, to the StoryCorps MobileBooth to hear her impressions of America now that she’s lived in the country for over forty years. |
| Love of Singing |
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| Christopher Waldbuesser talks to his grandmother Delores Hoffman about her extraordinary life in Chicago. |
| Introduction to Hip-Hop |
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| BboyB and Trixter are two of Chicago’s first “B-boys”—kids who are dedicated to the hip-hop movement of break-dancers, graffiti artists, and rappers that first arrived in Chicago in the early 1980s. |
| Devil Costume |
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| Chicago Public Radio's own Richard Steele talks to his friend and colleague Herb Kent. |
| Living Aurthentically |
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| Janet Blum accompanied her friend, Nancy Black Perlson, to the StoryCorps MobileBooth in order to talk about the death of Nancy’s father. |
| For the Funny |
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| Andre Trew worked as a professional dancer until a car accident in the late 1960s ended his career. His friend Rob Mapes brought Andre to the StoryCorps MobileBooth during its visit to Chicago to hear some of the wonderful stories about Andre’s days in show business. |
| A Way Out |
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| Quraysh Ali Lansana brought his friend and mentor, Haki Madhubuti, to the StoryCorps MobileBooth in order to hear more about what has influenced and inspired him. |
| Living with HIV |
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| Jim Pickett works as the policy director for the AIDS Foundation and has been HIV positive since 1995. He brought his friend and colleague, David Munar (who is also HIV positive), to the StoryCorps MobileBooth to talk about the difficulties of living with the disease. |
| Coming to America |
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| Chicagoan Kenneth Der and his daughter, Pamella Der, visited the StoryCorps MobileBooth to document some of their family history. |
| Web Exclusive: Remembering Angie |
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| Leslie Powless visited the StoryCorps MobileBooth during its visit to Chicago to memorialize her sister, Angela Westerfield, who was tragically killed on January 24, 1999, at the age of sixteen. |
| Family Farming |
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| Craig Curry brought his mother, Barb Fuller-Curry, to the StoryCorps MobileBooth in order to preserve her memories of growing up on the family farm. |
| Silver Pontiac |
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| Brian Okesson brought his eighty-four-year-old grandmother, Margaret Virginia Hudoba, to the StoryCorps MobileBooth while it was here in Chicago to record some of their family history. |
| Web Exclusive: Day You Were Born |
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| Tim Goligoski and his daughter Emily visit the StoryCorps MobileBooth to talk about life. |
| Sharkskin Suit |
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| Chicagoan Tom Brenner and his wife Karen Brenner talk about the things they’ve learned so far in life. |
| Web Exclusive: Riots in Chicago |
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| Frank Beidler brought his mother, Prue Beidler, to the StoryCorps MobileBooth to reflect on the experiences she’s had in her life. |
| Crucial Decision |
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| Chicagoan Joseph Dittmar was working in the insurance industry when he traveled to New York City in September of 2001 for a meeting at the World Trade Center. |
| A Good Choice |
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| Amenah Ibrahim brought her parents to the StoryCorps MobileBooth to ask them about their marriage as she prepares for her own nuptials. |
| Web Exclusive: Fate is Everything |
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| Today Ilana Diamond Rovner is a United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Seventh Circuit, and resides here in Chicago. But she almost didn’t make it to this country. |
| Serving Chicago |
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| Earl Bush is a lifelong Chicagoan and former newspaper reporter, who went on to serve as Mayor Richard J. Daley’s press secretary for over twenty years. |
| Finding Balance |
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| Chris Jeckel visited the StoryCorps booth to talk about his life as a 23 year-old coping with blindness. |
| Web Exclusive: What You Love |
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| Laura Lane Ferguson brought her 85 year-old grandmother, Laura Hester Banks, to the StoryCorps booth in order to record some of their family’s history. |
| Fighting Battles |
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| Millicent Gordon and Ann Johnson first met as pre-teens growing up in segregated Virginia. They’ve been best friends ever since, and last year traveled to Canada to marry. |
| A Daughter's Fear |
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| North suburban Wilmette resident Barbara Royal brought her mother, Charlotte Royal, to the StoryCorps MobileBooth to talk about their family history, including Charlotte’s memories of her own mother. |
| Web Exclusive: Madly in Love |
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| Chicago’s cultural historian, Tim Samuelson, and his wife, Barbara Koenen were the first to visit the StoryCorps MobileBooth during its visit to Chicago. |