- You Are Here, Chicagoans, May 30, 2013
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This week's Chicagoan: Rosita Arvigo, master herbalist
"Anywhere there's a crack of dirt in the sidewalk, a medicinal plant will grow."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, May 16, 2013
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This week's Chicagoan: Gary Stern, founder and CEO, Stern Pinball
"Detroit was once the capital of automobiles, and Chicago is and will remain the capital of pinball."
- 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, 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, Apr 3, 2013
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This week's Chicagoan: Tricia Jolliff, fan-fiction writer
"We get people who submit to us, and the story is predictable and lame, and there’s so many misspellings. The guy always gets the girl, or the girl always gets the guy."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Mar 15, 2013
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This week's Chicagoans: Sheila Quirke and Jeremy Hornik, hopeful adoptive parents
"Ever since open adoption has existed, hopeful parents have tried to reach out to expectant mothers by placing ads, leaving flyers. Now we have social media."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Feb 28, 2013
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This week's Chicagoan: Paul Speredes, owner, Able Removal Service
"We were cleaning out this property, and we'd pick up a couch, and kittens would fall out of it."
- 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, Jan 4, 2013
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This week's Chicagoan: Dennis Dobrydnia, Vietnam-era vet
"They just spent a year in a place most 'em damn near almost died in, and now they’re gonna take orders from a guy who’s gonna make sure they’re sweeping the floors."
- 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, 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, Nov 14, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: James Ciccotti, bridal-shoe designer
"If you buy something cheap somewhere, you lose, I lose, and then you're on the dance floor without your shoes."
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Nov 1, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Howard Cort, septuagenarian and activist
"I and a Moroccan fellow and an Iraqi Jew from Israel, we shared an apartment on Rittenhouse Square."
- 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, 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 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, 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, Aug 22, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Thomas Loconti, street artist
"Street performing is a chance to connect with a variety of people at an accelerated rate. To come into contact with 3,000 to 5,000 people a week, it satiates the beast."
- 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, 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?"
