ENRIQUE GÓMEZ IS a 22-year-old first-generation American living in the Boystown neighborhood of Chicago. His mother immigrated from El Salvador and his father from Mexico.…
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BEING A TEACHER IS one of the toughest jobs. Guadalupe Palacios, 26, is an elementary school teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Berwyn, Ill. Palacios…
BORN AND RAISED in Chicago, Noel Santiago is a 32-year-old police officer at the Chicago Police Department. Currently living in the Hermosa Park neighborhood, with…
BORN IN BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Marcelo Caplan is an electrical engineer by trade, and a professor of Science and Technology in the Arts at Columbia…
During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, 20-year-old Kennedy Freeman decided to create HourNine in hopes to make friends during her freshman year at the…
BORN IN MICHOACÁN, Mexico, Tania Manrique was a resource specialist at a non-profit organization. “I’m Mexican with a dual citizenship,” she says, as she grew…
BORN IN SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras, José Olin is a retired handyman residing in Humboldt Park in Chicago. He does work on the side for…
DANIELA JIMÉNEZ WAS born in Mexico City, Mexico and lives in Little Italy, Chicago. The 20-year-old student identifies herself as Mexican. “Well, I’ve heard recently…