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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Emily Dagostino

This city dares us to stick around and make it better, Chicago’s Next Voices guest columnist writes

Chicago remains what it was built to be: a center that draws people to work and live, agree and disagree, suffer and strive, to appreciate art and music and beauty, to feel something, question everything and imagine what’s possible. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Sun-Times)

Beneath the Puerto Rican flags that anchor Humboldt Park, I drive the route my dad drove every weekday for 30 years.

East past Washtenaw Avenue, where one of his basketball players shot and killed someone 29 years ago.

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