LUZ MARÍA COSTILLA is a 21-year-old, bilingual, first-generation college student who is attending Columbia College Chicago. She is studying music, keyboards more specifically, and she…
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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.…
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…