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Chicago Tribune Mary Schmich column

Schmich, Mary

2012

Overview

White trumpets, he called them, and when they fell, clogging the gutters, he imagined it as the annual wedding celebration for the earth and sky. Guided by Leki, a field ecology teacher at nearby Waters Elementary School, the neighbors have turned their few blocks of riverbank from a vine-tangled dump for drinkers and dope smokers into a haven to stroll and watch the ducks.

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