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Emily Dagostino

Chicago’s Next Voices guest columnist

Emily Dagostino, who works in communications for a health care system and lives in Oak Park, is one of the Sun-Times’ Chicago’s Next Voices columnists.

The Chicago skyline. Chicago remains what it was built to be: a center that draws people to work and live, agree and disagree, suffer and strive, to appreciate art and music and beauty, to feel something, question everything and imagine what’s possible.

Chicago’s Next Voices

This city dares us to stick around and make it better, Chicago’s Next Voices guest columnist writes

My parents educated the next generation here. My grandfathers laid bricks and pounded nails here. My grandmothers answered phones at the Sears Tower and stitched patterns to clothe the nation. Let’s stay in this city that gave us our history and make it new — again.

By Emily Dagostino