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Theodore Lipkowski (93) talks to his friend Mike Griffin (72) about being a member of the chorus of the Lyric Opera of Chicago when it first began in 1954.

Allison Arwady (44) tells her friend and colleague Isaac Ghinai (32) about her career with the CDC and her current role as the Public Health Commissioner for the City of Chicago.

Jarret Knox (30) talks with Jeremy Harvey (33) about growing up in foster care in Illinois. He talks about moving around a lot and losing control of himself when he went to college. He talks about working for a legal...

Julie Katsnelson (22) and her mother Ruth Moss-Katsnelson (65) talk about their genealogy and how their family came to Chicago. They also give advice to future generations of their family.

Janet Lawrence (60) interviews her mother, Rosa Lee Rothblatt (85) about her work as a speech therapist, her time as a Toastmistress, and the women in her family who have influenced her.

Friends and colleagues, Glenn Mack (54) and Ken Rubin (42) interview Kirk Bachman (55) at IACP's 40th anniversary conference. They talk about their first time meeting and their experience in the culinary world.

Wendell Scanterbury (51) interviews Phil Olson (64) about being both a patient and chaplain of Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia.

Jim McKeown (85) speaks to Micah Zaker (21) and Joshua Zaker (15) about his childhood experience and moments in his life that have impacted him.

Ronald Gibbs (62) speaks with old co-worker Diane Shaw (58) about how they got into law enforcement, what they think it means to be an officer, and how trainings from the Holocaust Museum have shaped how they see the work...

Lisa Kaplan (46) has a conversation with her longtime friend Matthew Duvall (50) about working together in the performing arts scene in Chicago and their chamber music project Eight Blackbird.

Mitchelle Kmiec (61) interviews her godfather Richard Kwiecien (78) about his life growing up in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, shares some of her own experiences with him, and reflect on how they've seen it change.

Henrietta Lavin (84) talks with her granddaughter, Heidi Miller (40), childhood, her family and children.

Kuang-Hao Huang (50) and his piano student, Helen Zell (78), talk about how they began working together, former piano teachers, experimentation, contemporary music, and their virtual piano lessons during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Kari Bachman (49) interviews her partner, Robert Yee (60), on his thoughts on 'play' and how that's played a role on his personal and professional life.

Xolani Yaaba (31) is interviwed by StoryCorps facilitator Laura Saenz (47) about his early childhood and experiences in the Chicago Public School system and how that influenced him in his work studying the school to prison pipeline.

Cairo Dye (23) and Katie Kelaidis (35) talk about their work at The National Hellenic Museum in Chicago and how it has changed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Michael Grover (36) talks to his wife, Lea Grover (34), about living with Glioblastoma (brain cancer) for the last 11 years. They talk about MG's cancer, their marriage, their fears, and their three young daughters.

Roommates Madison Hill (23), Joshua Micucci-D'amato (27), and Samie Jo Johnson (27) talk about wearing many different hats as artists. They also discuss what resilience means to them, how systemic racism has risen to the forefront of their conversations this...

Abraham Brawer (83) talks with his daughter and son-in-law Lynnette Brawer (47) and Todd Paler (47) about life in Nazi Occupied Europe, his journey to Israel where he worked on kibbutzes and served in the military,his immigration to South America...

Joyce Percel (30) speaks to her mother Susan Roque (61) about her experience in the Philippines and then immigrating to the United States of America.

Judd Lofchie (58) talks to his girlfriend Suzanne Stegeman (55) about how he founded the homeless newspaper Streetwise in Chicago.

Nora Ann (90) and her son Peter Pilliod (40) spoke of her childhood and early adulthood growing up in Chicago. She spoke of her parents and grandparents, meeting her husband, and about her son Peter.

Howard Dunn (84) talks with Joan Dunn (60) about the various jobs he's had in his life. He describes working as a tour operator for his travel company, and taking his family on trips.

Rachel Parsons (36) and her partner Nick Hnatiw (38) talk about how their relationship grew over time. They talk about the ease of being together, while not ignoring the difficulty of queer invisibility and missing a sense of belonging and...

Armando Carlo III (45) speaks to his mother, Barbara Carlo (78) about how she met her husband and what it was like when he suffered a severe heart attack. Barbara also discusses her views on aging.