Confronting the simple task of speaking

Despite his hard-won skills while wandering the Cambodian jungle for weeks, such as scaling trees to navigate and fine-tuning his senses to sniff out water, Ty Tim admits through a thick accent that once he came to America, one of the hardest adjustments was the seemingly...

Where immigrants tread, your family walked, too

Chris Linden   Growing up in the diverse city of Rockford, Ill., I never gave much thought to immigrants. They, like everyone else, blended into the urban landscape.   It was easy to forget that only a few generations ago, it might have been my family that...

Nana's Stories

Every other Sunday for as long as I can remember, my brother and I would go over to Nana and Papa’s for dinner. The food was always the same: chicken and noodles, followed by fruit and, only once we had finished our fruit, a little cup of chocolate chips. Either before or...

Lost in translation: children interpret for immigrant parents

BY KIRA LERNER [this story was written originally for a course, Enterprise Reporting in Diverse Communities, at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism] Gustavo Montes, a 13-year-old Edgewater resident, plays a crucial role in his parents’ lives. Not only is...