- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Sep 20, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Marcy Wagenberg, cochlear implant recipient
"I hadn't heard anything for two years. It took a while for my brain to relearn all the sounds."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Aug 8, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Kasia Koniar, director of scouting and development for Factor Women
"We need you to be healthy with gorgeous skin and a sparkle in your eye. That’s part of business."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Mar 20, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Mia Park, kids' show host
"Vanilla Ice was afraid of our puppet, Ratso. Lemmy from Motörhead wouldn't talk to the puppet."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Feb 23, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Melineh Kano, Refugee One program director
"I don't think anybody who comes to the United States expects the difficult economic situation they find when they get here."
- 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 1, 2011
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Michael Reed, rigger
This week's Chicagoan: Michael Reed, rigger
- 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, Sep 5, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Rene Cudal, bike messenger
"I wear Jewel plastic bags wrapped around my feet to keep 'em warm. It may sound gross, but it works."
- 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, May 16, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Leslie Goddard, historical interpreter
"Every time I do Jackie Kennedy, I have to make sure there are no runs in the stockings; everything has to be perfectly pressed and perfectly clean."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Feb 15, 2013
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This week's Chicagoan: Kevin Gorsch, personal stylist and vintage handbag dealer
"Some Hollywood looks don't work in everyday life. In real life, we don't sew you into your clothes."
- 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 3, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Rich Jentzen, hospice social worker
"Well, Jesus was not too thrilled the night before he was going to die."
- 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, 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, 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, Oct 18, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Michael Adkesson, veterinarian, Brookfield Zoo
"You're basically doing a root canal on a very large scale. The elephant's doing great."
- 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, 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. "
