- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Sep 29, 2011
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Alan Mills, legal director, Uptown People's Law Center
"He started off with three and a half years and ended up with life." —Alan Mills
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Nov 10, 2011
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Albert Ekekhor, minister and taxi driver
"A few people have confessed Jesus as their savior while they are sitting in my taxi."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Nov 17, 2011
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An anonymous psychic hairdresser
“When I do hair, it’s the same thing. I can’t use my logical mind. I have to just lose myself and tune into the psychic energy or whatever you want to call it.”
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Sep 15, 2011
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Andy Slater, blind musician
This week's Chicagoan: Andy Slater, blind musician
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Nov 23, 2011
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Dorian Bezanis, landlord
“We have a lot of tenants recommend other tenants. It’s like Facebook, only it’s Ardmore.”
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Oct 27, 2011
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Gary Arnold, person with dwarfism
'I'm going to attract a lot of attention, and sometimes it's not going to be good'
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Oct 20, 2011
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Ilana Wein, Hyde Park Cats cofounder
“One of the kittens was covered in maggots. A volunteer spent all night picking the maggots off.”
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Sep 22, 2011
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Jim Aldworth: firefighter
This week's Chicagoan: Jim Aldworth, firefighter
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Sep 1, 2011
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Michael Reed, rigger
This week's Chicagoan: Michael Reed, rigger
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Sep 8, 2011
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Naaman Gambill, Garfield Park Conservatory beekeeper
"When bees are in a swarm, that's their most docile. They're so focused on gathering around the queen—festooning, it's called—that they care about nothing else."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Oct 6, 2011
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Patrick Gleason, ex-con and actor
"I put on one of my pistols that I always carried. It was second nature: I got dressed, I put on my gun." -Patrick Gleason
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Dec 10, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: "Naughty Natanya" Rubin, burlesque performer
". . . less like jumping out of an airplane than like jumping out of an airplane riding a shark diving into a shot glass of Jell-O."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Apr 25, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Aaron Karmin, anger-management therapist
"If you have a rush of emotional energy, write."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Feb 16, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Aldo Marin, funeral director
"I can be in the embalming room sitting next to five people that have all passed away, and that’s, like, harmony."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Jul 12, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Andy Wilson, mushroom expert
"If you can't identify it yourself, don't be sticking it in your mouth. That's the rule. "
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Nov 28, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Angie Donenberg, co-owner, Lice Detectives
"When I arrived, his hair was shining and moving. There were bugs falling off his hair onto the floor."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, May 1, 2013
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This Week's Chicagoan: Annette Prince, director, Chicago Bird Collision Monitors
"A bird can hit a window at 30 miles per hour, so that's like you going through your windshield at 30 miles per hour."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Jun 27, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Beth Reiner, Amma devotee
"I believe that she is, yes, an incarnation of the Divine Mother."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Apr 18, 2013
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This week's Chicagoan: Cari Meyers, Puppy Mill Project founder
"If you buy a dog on the Internet, and they tell you, 'I'll bring you the dog, and I'll meet you in the Red Roof Inn parking lot'—no, no, no, no, no."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Jul 24, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: David Allen, tattoo artist
"I hear about their journey—thinking they're gonna die, losing both breasts. What do you do with that information?"
