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Agency Mission To assist Chicago area men and women, who are facing homelessness, achieve personal stability by providing them with a combination of supportive social services and immediate access to gainful employment. The Vision StreetWise will provide Chicagoans in need with, “a hand up, not a handout.” To this end, StreetWise will assure that,[...]
Mom and daughter break down history
Writing a memoir about growing up dur¬ing China’s Cultural Revolution (1966- 1976) was a healing process for Jian Ping ( Jennifer Hou Kwong), made easier by 25 years of living in the United States. Sitting at the same table in Jian’s South Loop apartment where scenes with her daughter, Lisa Xia, were shot for the[...]
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ScreenWise: Paul Meekin satirically reviews the documentary ‘Cool It’
Folks my age have grown up with lots of noise about impending doom, war, the economy, school violence, violent video games, and global warming among others. We grew up thinking this was the way to go about things, screaming at the top of our lungs like some crazed sports fan because the most in-yo-face wheel[...]
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A memoir of China’s Cultural Revolution
Chicagoan’s documentary also explores relationship with daughter When Jian Ping’s parents were Communist Party officials persecuted during China’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, her metaphor for resilience became the mulberry tree, growing in poor soil yet blooming each spring after the Siberian winter. In 2008 Chicagoan Jian (aka Jennifer Hou Kwong) published her book, Mulberry[...]
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Jeff Berg: Getting back to where he was
StreetWise Vendor Jeff Berg fell on hard times when, due to the lagging economy, he lost his job in 2011 as a maintenance technician for packaging machinery. “After I lost my job, I had been living in my house with no utilities and no heat. Then I lost my house and went to the Lincoln[...]
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Roark Moody Poetry – ‘Hero Sandwich’
The least recognized hero you’d ever know. The least remembered, most scoured, all-but-forgotten hero. Their sacrifices unmentioned, the untold horrors lay silent like the dead. The war has just shed another forgotten soldier of fortune. Stripped of his strength, a stranger to these times; Merely a babe these days, these times. Troubled man, the hero[...]
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