Carol Moseley Braun, 68, recollects her triumphant run to being elected the first female African American United States Senator.
David Ellis Flynn, a Chicago native and junior at Chicago State University, refuses to let the predicament of the state’s finances deter him and his peers from getting an education.
For Leah "LaQueens" Stevenson, the most important painting device is the canvas. That's all she really needs and pretty much all she wants — her canvas, her paint and her brush.
Edward Douglas would wander around the streets of the west side of Chicago until the result of a gunshot changed his life.