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By Ilana Engel

This morning we woke up to another sweltering hot day in the Windy City – making many of us wonder how Chicago got its chilly nickname. We began the day with an early meeting with Cook County Commissioner Gainer – an articulate …

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By Jaime Kaiser

Glad to be reunited with our bus and driver Robert, we set off for our first full day in the city of Chicago! Our first stop was the Medill school of Journalism at Northwestern University where we met with Dean Levine. He …

By Elana Hoffenberg

After waking up and eating breakfast we ventured into Evanston, a city near Chicago, to hear from the Dean of the Medill School of Journalism. His name is John Lavine. The Dean spoke to us about advances in media technology that already exist but are not yet …

By Zack Cohen

I woke up in the morning and had my usual breakfast. We were all told to come into a meeting room, where we spoke about the prison system in America and the various ideas of prison reform. Some people thought we should change prisoners to better society, …

By Harrison Small

As I awoke and rushed to the door at 7:45 AM to acknowledge that my roommates and I were actually up and getting ready (a harmless lie), feelings of optimism about the day ahead started to overcome me. After a hearty continental breakfast, we boarded the bus …

By Hayley Perlis

Today we woke up in Chicago and went to the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs. Our meeting was to be about poverty. Unfortunately, another speaker got assigned to us who spoke to us about Judaism’s connection to social justice. He also told us about a program that …

By Ali Ziegler

Today we woke up in Chicago and went to sleep in Toledo. Our first meeting of the day was with Max Miller, an advocate for Environment Illinois. Their goal as an organization is to lobby at the state level for environmentally friendly legislation. The major issue we …

By Rachel Ehrlich

I woke to the sound of beating rain to confront the reality of the loss of ten great friends. The day started at 9:15 AM as the group headed to the Art Institute of Chicago. Personally, I do not consider myself an “art person” but after experiencing …

By Zak Seed

I can’t say I was ready to leave the spectacular city of San Francisco with the hilly streets, great weather, lots of public transportation (which did get us around the city very well) and funky people. However, the Windy City of Chicago presented a whole new excitement …

From Moises Cohen:

“Open your eyes to the world; then decide how to live your life”. This is one of the significant ideas that Bill Ayers conveyed to us in our meeting with him. However, before I talk about that, let me tell you a little on what we did …