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  • Lindblom Math & Science Academy freshman Kemba Rasul, 14, participates in a girls choir class on Friday, May 6, 2016. <br />
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Lindblom Math & Science Academy, which is located in the predominantly black South Side neighborhood of Englewood, is one of ten selective enrollment high school in Chicago. Its students were so moved by the budget crisis that they created a song about the situation, which they performed at the school board meeting. <br />
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  • Carmen Killingsworth is the principal of Pioneer Elementary in Bolingbrook, Illinois.<br />
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  • Joewaine Washington, a former gang member and CeaseFire violence interrupter, stands for a portrait near in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Thursday, March 17, 2016. Washington monitors and attempts to mitigate violence in the area, though three people were shot at this intersection two days earlier.<br />
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  • Chicago, Illinois - January 14, 2016<br />
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Chicago activist Ja'Mal Green leads a group of protestors around the neighborhood of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. A federal judge decided to make public videos from a police shooting that left Cedrick Chatman, a 17-year-old African-American, dead and that is the subject of a wrongful-death lawsuit.<br />
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  • Chicago, Illinois - September 30, 2015. <br />
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Trevone Dobine, 13, and his cousin Tre'shon Dobine, 15, at right, hang out with friends at Palmer Park in Chicago's Pullman neighborhood on the south side on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015.<br />
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  • Chicago, Illinois - September 30, 2015. <br />
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The Chicago Transit Authority pink line train passes through the North Lawndale neighborhood on the west side of Chicago on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. <br />
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  • Chicago, Illinois - September 30, 2015. <br />
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Skylar Malone, 8, waits in the car for her mother Shuranda Turner near  Chicago's Roseland neighborhood on the south side on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. Skylar read E. B. White's Charlotte's Web while she waited.<br />
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  • The Sikh Coalition holds a press conference and rally in Darien, Illinois where Mr. Inderjit Singh Mukker was the victim of a hate crime.<br />
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Alyssa Schukar Photography released to the Sikh Coaltion<br />
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  • Principal Habeeb Quadri shakes hands with students following afternoon prayers at the MCC Academy's campus in Morton Grove, Illinois, on Tuesday, October 27, 2015.<br />
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Principal Habeeb Quadri wrote an essay detailing how the MCC Academy has built character and fostered community among students at the Chicago-area Islamic parochial school. Quadri has structured the school to recognize students for achievement, making a point to visit with individual students and to recognize them for their contributions to the student body.<br />
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  • MARKHAM, ILLINOIS --<br />
Wearing a protective suit for handling harmful substances, Alex Topolse poses for a portrait at a truck stop in Markham, Ill. on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015.<br />
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After years of spending long hours behind the wheel without seeing their paychecks grow, truck drivers now find themselves at the center of a bidding war. Many freight haulers have in the past year pushed through their biggest raises in decades. Truck-stop job boards and satellite radio airwaves are saturated with want ads, some advertising sign-on bonuses topping $5,000 and even free bus tickets to drivers willing to switch employers. Companies are tricking out their fleets with satellite televisions and other amenities to make life on the road a little more comfortable. It’s a bonanza for drivers like Alex Topolse. The 35-year-old Auburn, Maine, resident said he went from flipping burgers to handling a tanker truck hauling chemicals in 2013. He said he liked the work but jumped to a different company that allowed him to spend more time at home—and offered a 50% raise. He said he is on track to pull in nearly $70,000 this year. “It was a lot better income for doing basically the same job, hauling the same product and going to the same customers,” Mr. Topolse said. “It just made sense.”<br />
CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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  • Essence Gilchrist, 15, at center, hangs out with Amiya Singleton, 7, on an elementary school playground on the city's north side on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Less than a block away, a 19-year-old man was shot and killed early that morning. Gilchrist said she knew Tariq Akbar, a 14-year-old boy who was shot and killed in early July.<br />
The number of violent incidents has increased in Milwaukee this year. In 2014, the city saw 86 homicides; this year so far, the number has already surpassed 100.<br />
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  • Bethann Maclin talks with a New York Times reporter outside of the Gwen T. Jackson Elementary School playground during the last week of summer vacation on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Less than a block away, a 19-year-old man was shot and killed early that morning.<br />
The number of violent incidents has increased in Milwaukee this year. In 2014, the city saw 86 homicides; this year so far, the number has already surpassed 100.<br />
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  • Will Guinea, at center back, rests with teammates after practice. The Australian national rugby team practices at Notre Dame on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, as they prepare for their upcoming game against the United States in Chicago.<br />
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  • Tevita Kuridrani loads his gear into the bus before leaving for Chicago.<br />
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The Australian national rugby team practiced at Notre Dame on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, as they prepared for their upcoming game against the United States in Chicago.<br />
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  • On assignment for the New York Times: Power lines reach across #cornfields near the Kewaunee nuclear power plant in Carlton, #Wisconsin. The plant is an 18-story tangle of concrete buildings, metal pipes and — deep inside — racks containing spent radioactive fuel. So why do some residents of Carlton say they will miss it when it’s gone? In 2012, the plant’s owner made a surprise announcement that it would be decommissioned as a result of economic pressures. It has been offline since 2013. Some residents have accused Dominion, the plant’s owner, of deserting them and taking away the revenue and hundreds of jobs that long sustained the town.
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  • On assignment for the New York Times: Ryan Schleis holds his 8-week-old son Killian and his 3-year-old daughter Cadence at the family's Schleis Farms, a dairy farm established in 1916, which is about a mile from the decommissioned Kewaunee Nuclear Generating Station in Carlton, Wisc.<br />
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The plant is an 18-story tangle of concrete buildings, metal pipes and — deep inside — racks containing spent radioactive fuel. So why do some residents of Carlton say they will miss it when it’s gone? In 2012, the plant’s owner made a surprise announcement that it would be decommissioned as a result of economic pressures. It has been offline since 2013. Some residents have accused Dominion, the plant’s owner, of deserting them and taking away the revenue and hundreds of jobs that long sustained the town.
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  • The Chicago Police Department's Homan Square facility is on the city's west side.
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  • On assignment for the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Pierogi -- who asked not to be identified by his real name -- jokes around with, from left, babushkas Jean Lovasko,  Carolyn Kruszynski and Laine Kaminsky during the Pierogi Fest in Whiting, Indiana on Sunday, July 26, 2015. The babushkas cheered on participants in the pierogi throwing and eating competitions.<br />
The three-day festival, which has taken place every year since 1994, draws crowds from across the region and country to celebrate eastern European culture, traditions and foods.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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  • Latonya Polk teases her son Jovan Nicholson about getting a hair cut in their home in the Chicago suburb of Wood Dale on Friday, May 1, 2015. Polk and her two children moved out of Bellwood, one of Chicago's most violent suburbs, after the 2011 murder of her husband Kalem Polk.<br />
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  • WABASH, INDIANA -- <br />
Rebecca Lambert, who helped plan and coordinate a tour of the Eagles Theater building and ball room for the Indiana Landmarks Board of Directors, takes a peek out the fourth-floor window of the downtown space on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. "The last time there was an event here on this scale was probably in the 40s," Lambert said. After about a decade of disrepair, the Honeywell Foundation reopened the 1906 Vaudeville theater in 2010. Now showing new movies in the theater, the foundation is in the process of remodeling all four stories of building, including the ball room on the top floor. <br />
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Wabash, which currently has about 10,500 residents, is one of many small American towns trying to make a transition from an industrial past to a knowledge-based and creative economy.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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  • WABASH, INDIANA -- <br />
In the quiet hours of the early morning, a man walks near the Oswalt-Thomas Sales & Service electronics and tire store on West Canal Street in downtown Wabash, Ind., on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. In 2007, one of the town's biggest employers -- GDX Automotive, which made sealing systems and glass encapsulation products for the auto industry -- closed, leaving hundreds of residents scrambling for work. Wabash, which currently has about 10,500 residents, is one of many small American towns trying to make a transition from an industrial past to a knowledge-based and creative economy.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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  • WABASH, INDIANA -- <br />
Herb Anderson pats Greg Cook on the back after a close game of Nine Ball at Blooey's Bar and Grill in downtown Wabash, Ind., on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Pool and billiards enthusiasts gather weekly at the bar for very serious rounds of play.<br />
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Wabash, which currently has about 10,500 residents, is one of many small American towns trying to make a transition from an industrial past to a knowledge-based and creative economy.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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  • WABASH, INDIANA -- <br />
A woman sits in a truck on East Canal Street in downtown Wabash, Ind., on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015.<br />
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Wabash, which currently has about 10,500 residents, is one of many small American towns trying to make a transition from an industrial past to a knowledge-based and creative economy.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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  • Chef Grant Achatz stands for a portrait in the kitchen of his Chicago restaurant Alinea on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. <br />
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  • A young woman's recent allegations that she was sexually assault by Abdullah Saleem, the leader of the conservative Islamic school, prompted several women to come forward claiming abuse dating back decades. <br />
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  • Adolfo Davis poses for a portrait at the Cook County Jail in Chicago on Thursday, April 2, 2015. Davis has been serving life without parole for involvement in murders when he was 14 but may have the opportunity to be released thanks to a Supreme Court Decision.<br />
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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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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 on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah won 55-12 and finished the season undefeated.
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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 on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. 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.
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  • Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah sophomore running back Dyllan Konen has trouble focusing on U.S. History just hours before the Resorters' homecoming game against Valley Christian on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah won 55-12 and finished the season undefeated.
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  • Olivia Salm shares a secret with her boyfriend Mitchel Jensen during the homecoming dance, which took place in the school's cafeteria on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014.
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  • Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah senior wide receiver Gunnr Johnson prepares for the Resorters' game against Valley Christian on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah won 55-12 and finished the season undefeated.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Designer Paul Pierce poses for a portrait in Motorola's Chicago offices on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. Isaacs spearheaded the effort to produce the Motorola smartphone Moto X, which he is holding.<br />
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