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Megan Cottrell www.chitowndailynews.org OfflineNeighborhood: based in Lincoln SquareJoined 39 weeks 1 day ago. Last active 1 day 17 hours ago.Megan's Bio
"I have this experience when I interview someone, if it's going well and we're really talking in a serious way, and they're telling me about personal things, I fall in love a little. Man, woman, child, any age, any background, I fall in love a little. They're sharing so much of themselves. If you have half a heart, how can you not?"
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Take a tour of the "innovative housing solutions" being shown off in Chicago this week.
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It's time to play that wonderful, wacky game show: Who will be the next Chicago Housing Authority Commissioner?
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Community leaders just started meeting to determine the future of Lathrop Homes. But residents say they have concerns about their voices being heard
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