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Alyssa, Schukar, photography, photographer, freelance, Chicago, editorial, freelancer, photojournalist, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, portrait, candid, portraits, posed, documentary

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  • For Chicago Magazine's "Can Jerryon Stevens Be Saved?" (http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2016/Jerryon-Stevens/)<br />
Jerryon Stevens looks in the direction of sirens and police lights while hanging out with family on the front stoop of his great grandmother's home on the west side of Chicago. A former straight-A student, Stevens was arrested last summer for selling heroin. This spring, one of his best friends was gunned down. His grandmother and mother have impressed upon him the need to change. “I can change, but I don’t know when. I don’t know what’s going to happen,” he said.
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  • For Chicago Magazine's "Can Jerryon Stevens Be Saved?" (http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2016/Jerryon-Stevens/)<br />
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At the family's home in Humboldt Park, everyone sings "Happy Birthday" to Jock Williams as he turns 18 on April 12, 2016. Pictured clockwise from bottom left are Jerryon "Mank" Stevens's cousin Darriah Lee, 7, mother Chrishona Hodges, grandmother Jackie Hodges, sister Ja'Ziyah Kayla Vaughn, 4, cousin Fredrene "Duke" Lee, 12, and cousin Dariyah Lee, 8.
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  • Work in Progress: Elsie Eiler is the sole resident of Monowi, Nebraska's smallest town. She has been the mayor, the bartender, the tax collector and the settler of disputes for the town's tavern since her husband's death more than a decade ago. The once-booming railroad town now reflects the century of American life it contained: books collect dust in the one-room schoolhouse, tourists discard an empty beer case in the tall grasses along main street and old photographs reveal a glimpse of the people of the Great Plains. | Personal Work<br />
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Chicago Freelance Documentary Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • In Wisconsin, the Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah football team has enjoyed a new-found popularity since converting its 11-man team to 8-man. This resort town school joined a statewide trend toward this style of play, which allows small schools -- many of which are shrinking due to rural population decline -- to compete with each other on a level playing ground.<br />
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The community -- small thought it may be -- behind the school has wholeheartedly embraced the new style of play. "The student section is phenomenal," head coach Barry Feldman said. "Our players feel it. They hear it, and they see it. And it makes them play even harder." <br />
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Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah senior wide receiver and defensive back Logan Knepfel, at left, and senior Meghan Clemens prepare to take part in the Homecoming parade as part of the Homecoming Court before the Resorters' homecoming game against Valley Christian. Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah won 55-12 and finished the season undefeated.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Documentary Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • In Wisconsin, the Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah football team has enjoyed a new-found popularity since converting its 11-man team to 8-man. This resort town school joined a statewide trend toward this style of play, which allows small schools -- many of which are shrinking due to rural population decline -- to compete with each other on a level playing ground.<br />
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The community -- small thought it may be -- behind the school has wholeheartedly embraced the new style of play. "The student section is phenomenal," head coach Barry Feldman said. "Our players feel it. They hear it, and they see it. And it makes them play even harder." <br />
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Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah students and band members, from left, Sydney Shovan, Eliza Meyers and Riley Winter prepare for their halftime performance during the first half of the Resorters' game against Valley Christian. As is tradition, students covered the town with toilet paper leading up to the big game. Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah won 55-12 and finished the season undefeated.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Documentary Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • Cambridge's Jack Perdue, at center, rests during halftime of Cambridge's game against Perkins County at Perkins County High School in Grant, Neb. on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. Cambridge won 33-7. | On assignment for the Omaha World-Herald<br />
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  • American health care has failed Vi Lane. Twenty-six years ago, Lane sold her family's four businesses to pay a 2.5 million dollar hospital bill after the death of her husband Rod who was uninsured. With few resources, Lane, now 69, moved into a rented home near downtown Platte City and has recently taken in her pregnant and uninsured granddaughter Cyndi Perkins with her 18-month-old son Tommy Brown. Though health insurance woes continue to plague them, this unexpected family has brought a sense of cohesion and has filled Vi's home with love.<br />
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Vi Lane reaches out to her great-grandson Thomas Brown as they drive through Platte City on Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Lane lost her family's four businesses after the death of her husband 22 years ago, and though the future continues to be unclear, she is grateful for the time with family. | Missouri Photo Workshop<br />
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Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • Taylor Rudd of Lubbock, Texas, kneels to pray with his horse, White Horse, during the funeral services for Marine Lance Cpl. Hunter Hogan on Friday, July 6, 2012, at St. Joseph Cemetery in York, Neb. Hunter, 21, died while serving in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on Saturday, June 23, 2012. | On assignment for the Omaha World-Herald<br />
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  • During a two-week trip to the Dominican Republic, a dozen young students from Chicago -- a city deeply fractured along ethnic and socioeconomic lines -- developed an understanding of how racism, colonialism, gender inequality and poverty influence Dominicans’ lives. The students discussed how their own skin color is perceived in America, and they learned how nationality and ethnicity can affect how people understand the world. Despite the geographic and cultural differences that separate these students from their Dominican peers, they learned they had more in common than they would have guessed. <br />
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Village Leadership Academy student Eden Magana, at right, is introduced to a young girl near the Jimenoa Waterfall near La Joya, Jarabacoa. | On assignment for Village Leadership<br />
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  • A calf escapes the rope of Paul Kenner as he and a crew of close to 70 workers corral and brand young calves at the Burdick Ranch south of Wood Lake, Neb., on April 21, 2012. Branding relies heavily on the ranching community. “We run a thousand cows,”€ rancher Ben Burdick said. “€œIf you didn’t have help, you couldn’t operate.” | On assignment for the Omaha World-Herald<br />
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  • "This may be a small town, but it's got a big rodeo, and it's got a really big heart," 2013 Miss Burwell Rodeo Olivia Hunsperger said. In its 92nd year, the rodeo continues strong and serves as an economic stronghold for a small community in the Sandhills of Nebraska.<br />
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Members of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association hold their hats as 2013 Miss Burwell Rodeo Olivia Hunsperger passes by during the opening ceremonies on Saturday, July 27, 2013. | On assignment for the Omaha World-HeraldBu<br />
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