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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitch Dudek

Beloved children’s singer Ella Jenkins turning 99 Sunday with a party at a North Side park that bears her name

Children’s folksinger Ella Jenkins in 2014 at Storyteller Corner at Bauler Playlot Park, which was dedicated to her. (Sun-Times file)

Legendary children’s musician Ella Jenkins turns 99 Sunday. She’s still rhyming, singing and playing with words. And she’s having a little party to celebrate.

“I was feeling great until they told me I was 98,” Jenkins said in an interview via a video call from her apartment at an assisted-living facility on the North Side where she has lived for about a decade.

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