My name is Nestor Gomez. I was born and raised in the Central American country of Guatemala.
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In the spring of 1975, I was 30 years old. I shared an apartment in North London with two friends and worked in an underserved area of South London as a teacher/social worker.
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I grew up in a Nepalese town that wasn't well developed. There was no transportation, and going to college was out of reach.
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My journey to Edgewater began in Hong Kong, where I was born and raised. As was typical in a British colony, my father gave me both a Chinese and an English name.
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I was born in Pachuca in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Back then, it was a miners’ town. When I turned 10 years old, I moved to Mexico City with the rest of my family. Moving from a small town to the big city was a big change for me.
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When I was a little girl living in the Philippines, I loved to draw, color and sketch. I vividly remember sketching coconut trees with nipa huts by the seaside, and columns and altar of the church. I liked drawing the profile of a woman. I did all these but never seriously had a desire to be an artist nor an architect.
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Hola. Mi nombre es Esther Pineda. Soy mexicana, les voy a relatar un poco de mi vida, desde que llegué a Chicago.
Hello. My name is Esther Pineda. I am Mexican. I want to relate a little bit about my life since I arrived in Chicago.
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In 1955, my parents moved from a one-bedroom apartment in St. Henry's parish on Hoyne Ave. They bought a house on the 5400 block of Magnolia, bringing their six children along.
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I first came to Edgewater in 1984, with my soon-to-be husband. Having been priced out of the rental market in Lakeview, we were searching for a location that was convenient to downtown, affordable and still had a young vibe.
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I was raised in the Irving Park and Portage Park neighborhoods of Chicago and my knowledge of other neighborhoods was very limited. Frankly, I had no idea where the Edgewater neighborhood was located. Anything east of California Avenue and north of Irving Park Road was uncharted territory.
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My grandparents were itinerant farmworkers from Mexico who came across in 1913. They walked and worked the farms and eventually settled in Gary, Indiana. My grandmother started a rooming house, and my mother married a Spaniard, a businessman from Mexico.
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A suburban house with white picket fence, great backyard, wonderful friends, great neighborhood. Everything seems in place. However, life is not only that. Where are the new experiences? How can we be more active in the world? When can we make a little corner of the world better?
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“Hello, kiddos! I see we all have our jammies on! Are you ready for bedtime stories?”
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“Are you free Tuesday mornings?” asked Beth, sitting to my right, as she pulled up a loop of yarn with her crochet hook.
“What happens on Tuesdays?” I replied.
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Beard & Belly's story begins not in Edgewater, but in a walk-up food window at The Long Room, a beloved Chicago bar in Lakeview with a focus on local craft beer. Kyle "The Beard" and Jim "The Belly" (creative nicknames are clearly our forte) had a simple approach: Share quality bar food at a fair price.
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In 2016 The Chicago Mosaic School was invited to look at many neighborhoods in Chicago as we sought to relocate from our longtime industrial Ravenswood/Lakeview location.
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