PBS Documentary Seeking Families to Film On Election Night and After

The Chicago and Calumet Rivers are just thin trickles compared with the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. But the health of the two vastly larger water systems relies, in part, on the pair of lowly rivers that flow through Chicago.

The Chicago and the Calumet are connected by the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to the Des Plaines River, which in turn flows to the Kankakee and Illinois Rivers, which eventually empty into the Mississippi. This complex network allows water to be exchanged between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi.

Kamila Vázquez was just 2 years old when she was diagnosed with diabetes. Her parents must now monitor her blood sugar levels and keep a close watch on what she eats, making simple things like birthday parties quite complex.

Kamila is one of the 150,000 people under 18 years old in America diagnosed with diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but she is fortunate in many respects.  She has two loving parents: her mother, Kamilla, and her father, who is All-Star White Sox pitcher Javier Vázquez.