Luana Lienhart says 30 percent of her clients don’t realize they’re in abusive relationships.
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Donald Trump impersonator: Just don’t punch me, please
Dennis Alan has done ads in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Cairo, but has to avoid rallies and private parties for security reasons.
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Meet Chicago’s contest queen: She enters up to 100 sweepstakes a day—and once won $100K
“It’s a bit like exercise: I enjoy it, but sometimes I’d rather skip it, but I do it anyway,” Cynthia Kendall says.
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‘The minute you’re bored, you’re not doing your job,’ says Shahna Richman, FBI agent turned bodyguard and security expert
“In Chicago, I am familiar with almost every large-scale venue. I’m looking at entry points, exit points, vulnerabilities.”
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‘Eye of the Tiger,’ Berwyn musician’s biggest hit, started with ‘Bam! Bam bam bam!’
Songwriter Jim Peterik’s work, which also includes “Vehicle,” first hit the Billboard Hot 100 when he and his bandmates were still in high school.
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For Chelsea Rectanus, 30, owning a used bookstore is ‘as great as the romance would lead you to believe’
“It’s not all roses and garlands and angels singing from the rooftops or anything like that, but it’s good as it’s cracked up to be.”
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Aces of fades
At the Major League Barber Original Midwest SuperBarber & Stylist Tradeshow, all haircuts are a cut above.
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Being a straight go-go dancer in gay nightclubs can be tricky, even dangerous
“I don’t even pretend to know what women go through on a daily basis, but I feel like I have a peek,” Ben Krane says.
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Life is sweet for a Chicago candy maker
“When people hear about my job, they often ask me, ‘Is there really candy everywhere?’ And the reality is yes,” Stacey Espinosa says.
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The peculiar difficulty of being an AirBnb host on Chicago’s south side
“People are afraid of the south side. It’s ridiculous. I educate my guests,” Afri Atiba says.
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The U. of C.’s Game Changer Chicago Design Lab explores health and social issues through video games
“We’re trying to see what games actually do, beyond the question ‘Do violent video games make people more violent?’” designer Ashlyn Sparrow says.
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Do millennials get Seinfeld?
A Chicago high school history teacher’s “club about nothing” aims to pass down an appreciation of the 90s TV phenomenon to the next generation.
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Illinois’s champion tree climber is also an arborist
“If you’re climbing properly on a tree,” Nagan says, “you never fall; you swing.”
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A metal detectorist makes a living helping Chicagoans find lost jewelry
“Seventy percent of my calls are ‘ring tosses,’ where the spouse throws a ring in anger,” Jim Evans says.
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What humans can learn from bees, according to Chicago’s bicycling beekeeper
“Beekeeping teaches you to let go of the black-and-white world and participate in the natural world, which is not predictable,” says Bike a Bee founder Jana Kinsman.