Tag: Chicagoans

George Rabiela, left, was photographed in February 2000 by Robert A. Davis as part of the CITY 2000 photodocumentary project. I interviewed him in September 2000 in his office above the Chicago Fire Department’s “Survive Alive” house. My name is George Rabiela, and I’ve been on the fire department for 24 years. I came to […]

Fern Bogot was photographed by Leah Missbach in April 2000 as part of the CITY 2000 photodocumentary project. I interviewed her the following September in her home, which was liberally decorated with food-related tchotchkes. My name is Fern Taylor Bogot. At the moment the picture was shot, I was celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover […]

Nat Ward, left, was photographed in June 2000 by Jon Lowenstein as part of the CITY 2000 photodocumentary project. I interviewed him the following February in his loft apartment, which he shared with a roommate and a vast assortment of interesting objects, including three motorcycles and two partially disassembled pianos. I’m Nathaniel Ward, and I’ve […]

Joe and Gloria Smith Torres were photographed in their home by Jane Fulton Alt in March 2000 as part of the CITY 2000 photodocumentary project. Gloria was interviewed a month later by radio producer Andrea De Fotis, who was then CITY 2000’s audio editor. I prepared this text from the transcript of that interview and […]

Erin Moore and Martin de Blois were photographed by Robert A. Davis on July 9, 2000, as part of the CITY 2000 photodocumentary project. They are in a diving pool at the Taste of Chicago festival in Grant Park. They were married two weeks later. I interviewed Erin the following November at their Lakeview apartment. […]

Stephanie Lentz and her admiring boyfriend, Chris Oakes, were photographed by Kathy Richland at a preprom party in May 2000. Stephanie and I spoke the following January in the town house she grew up in, just west of Old Town. The neighborhood was “pretty rough when my parents first moved here,” she told me. “Now […]

John Cooper was photographed by Antonio Perez in January 2000 as part of the CITY 2000 photodocumentary project. He’s shown in a section of Deep Tunnel near 134th and Torrence. I interviewed him last summer at my office downtown. Afterward I walked him out to his car, a deep green Cadillac DeVille. My name is […]

Greg Dawe was photographed by Wes Pope in April 2000, as part of the CITY 2000 documentary project. I interviewed him about six months later. He’s shown standing in the CAVE–a computer-generated “automatic virtual environment”–at UIC’s Electronic Visualization Lab, where he works as a design engineer. I’m Greg Dawe, a Chicago native. I’m the hardware […]