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Stuart Dybek 1438 W. 18th St.Chicago, Illinois By Izabella Kimak I have been coming to Chicago for a quarter of a century now, ever since my mother and sisters left Poland for the United States in the early 2000s. Initially, Chicago for me meant the downtown, really....
At the newspaper where I worked in college, we were taught that a story’s lead was a story’s everything—This. Happened. The lead was the whole and the start, an incision through which a writer’s needle and thread might penetrate, stringing along all the details to...