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  • Aurora, Illinois - March 8, 2016<br />
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As part of the United We Stand project, nearly 800 crosses, honoring those who were murdered in Chicago in 2016, stand on the lawn outside of Restoration Church in Aurora, Illinois, on Friday, Dec. 30, 2016. On New Years Eve, community and family members will walk with the crosses along the Magnificent Mile shopping district in downtown Chicago. <br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Aurora, Illinois - March 8, 2016<br />
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As part of the United We Stand project, nearly 800 crosses, honoring those who were murdered in Chicago in 2016, stand on the lawn outside of Restoration Church in Aurora, Illinois, on Friday, Dec. 30, 2016. On New Years Eve, community and family members will walk with the crosses along the Magnificent Mile shopping district in downtown Chicago. <br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Jerryon "Mank" Stevens, 15, leans on the fence outside of his home in West Humboldt Park on March 25, 2016. On March 17, Stevens's 16-year-old friend Lucas Spicer was shot and killed on the 800 block of North St. Louis Avenue, less than three blocks from Stevens's home. Stevens had been with him earlier that evening.<br />
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  • Jerryon "Mank" Stevens, 15, walks along Huron Street near his home in West Humboldt Park on March 25, 2016. On March 17, Stevens's 16-year-old friend Lucas Spicer was shot and killed on the 800 block of North St. Louis Avenue, less than three blocks from Stevens's home.<br />
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  • Chicago, Illinois - March 8, 2016<br />
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Anthony Madrid poses for a portrait in his home in Chicago on Friday, March 25, 2016.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Chicago, Illinois - March 8, 2016<br />
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Camiella Williams, a 28-year-old gun violence activist from Chicago, stands near a memorial wall that honors young people who have died violently.<br />
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Williams has lost 22 friends and family members, many of whose pictures are displayed on the wall, which stands outside of St. Sabina Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago. Williams left Chicago for the suburbs after the birth of her son. "Those that were fortunate enough not to be killed, now our babies are being killed," Williams said.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Chicago, Illinois - March 8, 2016<br />
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A memorial wall honors young people who have died violently. <br />
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Camiella Williams has lost 22 friends and family members, many of whose pictures are displayed on the wall, which stands outside of St. Sabina Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago. Williams left Chicago for the suburbs after the birth of her son. "Those that were fortunate enough not to be killed, now our babies are being killed," Williams said.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Chicago, Illinois - March 8, 2016<br />
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Camiella Williams's 15-year-old cousin Porshe Foster, shown at center left, was shot in the back while hanging out with friends in 2012. Her portrait is part of a memorial wall that honors young people who have died violently. Williams has lost 22 friends and family members, many of whose pictures are displayed on the wall, which stands outside of St. Sabina Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago. Williams left Chicago for the suburbs after the birth of her son. "Those that were fortunate enough not to be killed, now our babies are being killed," Williams said.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Susan Leopold <br />
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"Never in my lifetime did I ever think I would bare witness to a gathering of indigenous people speaking such diverse languages who have come together to stand united for the one thing we all so deeply care about," Leopold said. She runs a small non-profit called United Plant Savers, which works to conserve at-risk native medicinal plants.<br />
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More than 300 tribes that have flocked to an encampment on the border of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation for what activists are calling the largest, most diverse tribal action in at least a century, perhaps since Little Bighorn.<br />
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  • “The Great Plains” is a collection of images examining life in what is often considered flyover land. |||<br />
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At the family's home in Humboldt Park, everyone sings "Happy Birthday" to Jacques Williams on his 18th birthday. Also pictured is Williams's brother Jerryon Stevens, a former straight-A student who 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.<br />
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  • Glendale Hights, Illinois - February 22, 2017<br />
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A medical delivered to Brenda Herron.<br />
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Michael, 15, was shot four times while visiting his parents and grandfather in Chicago in late 2016. Michael, who lives with Brenda Herron in Dupage County, Ill, plans to return to school in March.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Glendale Hights, Illinois - February 22, 2017<br />
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Michael, 15, was shot four times while visiting his parents and grandfather in Chicago in late 2016. Michael, who lives with Brenda Herron in Dupage County, Ill, plans to return to school in March.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Glendale Hights, Illinois - February 22, 2017<br />
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Michael, 15, was shot four times while visiting his parents and grandfather in Chicago in late 2016. Michael, who lives with Brenda Herron in Dupage County, Ill, plans to return to school in March.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Glendale Hights, Illinois - February 22, 2017<br />
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Michael, 15, was shot four times while visiting his parents and grandfather in Chicago in late 2016. Michael, who lives with Brenda Herron in Dupage County, Ill, plans to return to school in March.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Glendale Hights, Illinois - February 22, 2017<br />
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Michael, 15, was shot four times while visiting his parents and grandfather in Chicago in late 2016. Michael, who lives with Brenda Herron in Dupage County, Ill, plans to return to school in March.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Glendale Hights, Illinois - February 22, 2017<br />
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Michael, 15, was shot four times while visiting his parents and grandfather in Chicago in late 2016. Michael, who lives with Brenda Herron, at right, in Dupage County, Ill, plans to return to school in March.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Glendale Hights, Illinois - February 22, 2017<br />
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Michael, 15, was shot four times while visiting his parents and grandfather in Chicago in late 2016. Michael, who lives with Brenda Herron in Dupage County, Ill, plans to return to school in March.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Glendale Hights, Illinois - February 22, 2017<br />
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Michael, 15, was shot four times while visiting his parents and grandfather in Chicago in late 2016. Michael, who lives with Brenda Herron in Dupage County, Ill, plans to return to school in March.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Glendale Hights, Illinois - February 22, 2017<br />
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Michael, 15, was shot four times while visiting his parents and grandfather in Chicago in late 2016. Michael, who lives with Brenda Herron in Dupage County, Ill, plans to return to school in March.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Glendale Hights, Illinois - February 22, 2017<br />
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Michael, 15, was shot four times while visiting his parents and grandfather in Chicago in late 2016. Michael, who lives with Brenda Herron in Dupage County, Ill, plans to return to school in March.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Trace
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  • Jackie Hodges sits with her grandson Jacques Williams, 18, on the front stoop of the family's West Humboldt Park home. Williams lives with Hodges in the same home where his mother was raised.<br />
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  • Chrishona Hodges tries to get a hold of her son Jerryon Stevens while sitting on the front stoop of the family's West Humboldt Park home. Hodges broke her arm when she fell while skating a week earlier.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens walks along Chicago Avenue in West Humboldt Park. Stevens' friend Lucas Spicer was shot and killed less than a block away.<br />
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  • On Jacques Williams's 18th birthday, he and Jerryon Stevens drive through West Humboldt Park where they live. Stevens is not yet able to drive, so he relies on public transportation and his brother for trips away from the neighborhood.<br />
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  • On Jacques Williams's 18th birthday, he and Jerryon Stevens drive through West Humboldt Park where they live. The duo often hangs out on the street corner with friends.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens shares a tender moment with his sister Ja'Ziyah Kayla Vaughn, 4, at their West Humboldt Park home.<br />
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  • Chrishona Hodges, at right, talks with her mother Jackie Hodges and her son Jerryon Stevens as they cook Easter dinner for the family. <br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens and his brother Jacques Williams perform for Facebook Livestream while they wait for the family's Easter dinner. The two are close, but Williams is headed to college in the fall, leaving Stevens without him for the first time in his life.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens and his brother Jacques Williams swing by the grocery store for ingredients for the family's Easter dinner.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens's cousin Tyneicesha Tate, 17, dances with friends and relatives while they wait for the family's Easter dinner. Using Facebook Livestream, the teens were singing along to their favorite songs.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens plays Grand Theft Auto with friends, including Little Man, at right, and cousins before the family's Easter dinner.<br />
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  • Jacques Williams returns from the grocery store with ingredients for the family's Easter dinner in North Lawndale.<br />
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  • Jackie Hodges talks with her grandson Jerryon Stevens as she cooks Easter dinner for the family. <br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens's 18-year-old brother Jacques Williams searches student housing for the fall when he will attend Northern Illinois University in DeKalb where he plans to study business and engineering.<br />
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  • With his cousin Fredrene "Duke" Lee, 12, at back, Jerryon Stevens stands outside of the Stone Temple Baptist Church, which held the funeral of 16-year-old Lucas Spicer.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens, 16, attends the funeral of his 16-year-old friend Lucas Spicer was shot and killed on the 800 block of North St. Louis Avenue, less than three blocks from Stevens's home.<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.<br />
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  • Jerryon "Mank" Stevens, 15, looks in the direction of sirens and police lights while hanging out with family on the front stoop of his great grandmother's home in West Humboldt Park on April 12, 2016. A group of demonstrators gathered to protest the previous day's Chicago Police shooting of 16-year-old Pierre Loury, who Stevens knew through a friend.<br />
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  • Chrishona Hodges stands with her niece Darriah Lee, 7, near a hearse outside of the funeral for Lucas Spicer, 16, at Stone Temple Baptist Church in North Lawndale on March 26, 2016. Spicer, a friend of Hodges's son Jerryon "Mank" Stevens, was shot and killed on the 800 block of North St. Louis Avenue. Hodges said Stevens has lost 13 friends and relatives to gun violence. <br />
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  • Jerryon "Mank" Stevens, 15, poses for a portrait along Chicago Avenue near St. Louis Avenue in West Humboldt Park on April 18, 2016. On March 17, Stevens's 16-year-old friend Lucas Spicer was shot and killed on the 800 block of North St. Louis Avenue, less than three blocks from Stevens's home.<br />
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  • Jackie Hodges sits with her grandson Jacques Williams, 18, on the front stoop of the family's West Humboldt Park home. Williams lives with Hodges in the same home where his mother was raised.<br />
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  • Chrishona Hodges tries to get a hold of her son Jerryon Stevens while sitting on the front stoop of the family's West Humboldt Park home. Hodges broke her arm when she fell while skating a week earlier.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens walks along Chicago Avenue in West Humboldt Park. Stevens' friend Lucas Spicer was shot and killed less than a block away.<br />
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  • On Jacques Williams's 18th birthday, he and Jerryon Stevens drive through West Humboldt Park where they live. Stevens is not yet able to drive, so he relies on public transportation and his brother for trips away from the neighborhood.<br />
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  • On Jacques Williams's 18th birthday, he and Jerryon Stevens drive through West Humboldt Park where they live. The duo often hangs out on the street corner with friends.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens shares a tender moment with his sister Ja'Ziyah Kayla Vaughn, 4, at their West Humboldt Park home.<br />
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  • Chrishona Hodges, at right, talks with her mother Jackie Hodges and her son Jerryon Stevens as they cook Easter dinner for the family. <br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens and his brother Jacques Williams perform for Facebook Livestream while they wait for the family's Easter dinner. The two are close, but Williams is headed to college in the fall, leaving Stevens without him for the first time in his life.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens and his brother Jacques Williams swing by the grocery store for ingredients for the family's Easter dinner.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens's cousin Tyneicesha Tate, 17, dances with friends and relatives while they wait for the family's Easter dinner. Using Facebook Livestream, the teens were singing along to their favorite songs.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens plays Grand Theft Auto with friends, including Little Man, at right, and cousins before the family's Easter dinner.<br />
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  • Jacques Williams returns from the grocery store with ingredients for the family's Easter dinner in North Lawndale.<br />
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  • Jackie Hodges talks with her grandson Jerryon Stevens as she cooks Easter dinner for the family. <br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens's 18-year-old brother Jacques Williams searches student housing for the fall when he will attend Northern Illinois University in DeKalb where he plans to study business and engineering.<br />
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  • With his cousin Fredrene "Duke" Lee, 12, at back, Jerryon Stevens stands outside of the Stone Temple Baptist Church, which held the funeral of 16-year-old Lucas Spicer.<br />
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  • Jerryon Stevens, 16, attends the funeral of his 16-year-old friend Lucas Spicer was shot and killed on the 800 block of North St. Louis Avenue, less than three blocks from Stevens's home.<br />
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  • At the family's home in Humboldt Park, everyone sings "Happy Birthday" to Jacques Williams on his 18th birthday. Also pictured is Williams's brother Jerryon Stevens, a former straight-A student who 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.<br />
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  • 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.<br />
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  • Nine-year-old McKayla McCarville stands in the staging area outside of the Burwell arena where the 85th annual Nebraska's Big Rodeo is held. McKayla's father, Kirk McCarville, brought her to the rodeo and McKayla said that she nervously watched him compete in the rodeo's wild horse race. | Personal work<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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  • More than 2,000 Iowans deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. The Red Bulls patch emblazoned on their shoulders carried honor and tradition unparalleled in the National Guard, but for Afghans, who saw the devil in the horned silhouette, it symbolized fear. <br />
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Stationed throughout Afghanistan, these soldiers saw more of the country than most Afghans will see in their lifetimes. Yet, the soldiers said that they came home with a hazier understanding of the conflict. They spoke of a struggle to understand America’s role in the region. Deployment was dangerous, but no one could guarantee that the risk and sacrifice would have a lasting effect on the Afghans’ lives.<br />
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  • Everyone at Wrigley Field seems to know Ronnie "Woo-Woo" Wickers who hopes to celebrate his 75th birthday with a Cubs World Series win. The wear and tear of a half-century of "wooing" for the Cubs has prompted Wickers's voice to come and go. "I try to get past it," he said. "People ask me to cheer, I give them a 'woo.' Sometimes it's still there. But I promise if they win the World Series, it will come back again. This team is in it to win it. And when they do, that's all the medicine I will need."
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  • “The Great Plains” is a collection of images examining life in what is often considered flyover land. |||<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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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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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.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • “The Great Plains” is a collection of images examining life in what is often considered flyover land. |||<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," 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 Miss Burwell Rodeo Olivia Hunsperger passes by during the opening ceremonies.<br />
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  • “The Great Plains” is a collection of images examining life in what is often considered flyover land. |||<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," 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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Nebraska's Big Rodeo board member Mike Burnham and Jessa Reinwald, 3, share a saddle as they prepare to go through the Grand Entry during Nebraska's Big Rodeo. The rodeo owes much of its success to board members and other volunteers who give of their time and resources.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • “The Great Plains” is a collection of images examining life in what is often considered flyover land. |||<br />
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Nine-year-old McKayla McCarville stands in the staging area outside of the Burwell arena where the 85th annual Nebraska's Big Rodeo is held. McKayla's father, Kirk McCarville, brought her to the rodeo and McKayla said that she nervously watched him compete in the rodeo's wild horse race. "This may be a small town, but it's got a big rodeo, and it's got a really big heart," 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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Chicago Freelance 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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Chicago Freelance Documentary Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • “The Great Plains” is a collection of images examining life and love in what is often considered flyover land. |||<br />
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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 at St. Joseph Cemetery in York, Neb. Hunter, 21, died while serving in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • “The Great Plains” is a collection of images examining life in what is often considered flyover land. |||<br />
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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.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • A collection of life in the Great Plains.<br />
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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.<br />
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Chicago Freelance 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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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.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • Sami Deffala, owner of the Morgan Mini Mart in Englewood, pours coffee for a customer.<br />
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Siavash Sabetrohani, originally from Iran, is a music graduate student at the University of Chicago. He poses for a portrait in his home.<br />
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Syrian refugee Nour AlNatour embraces her 9-year-old daughter Massa Abudaken and her 13-year-old son Malek Abudaken. She poses for a portrait on their way home from Clinton Elementary School in Rogers Park.<br />
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Syrian refugee Nour AlNatour embraces her 9-year-old daughter Massa Abudaken and her 13-year-old son Malek Abudaken. She poses for a portrait on their way home from Clinton Elementary School in Rogers Park.<br />
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Siavash Sabetrohani, originally from Iran, is a music graduate student at the University of Chicago. He poses for a portrait in his home. One of his few mementos from home, a portrait of his 17-month-old niece Baran.<br />
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Hind Makki, a Sudanese American, has developed the project Side Entrance, which collects images from mosques around the world and showcases women's sacred spaces in relation to men's spaces. She poses for a portrait in a Yemeni community gathering space.<br />
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Abdinasir Kahim, at right, and Mohamed Haji are originally from Somalia and drive taxis in Chicago. They pose for a portrait outside of the Somali restaurant Bismilahi on the near north side.<br />
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