City Colleges of Chicago

Growing up on the southwest side of Chicago, Naomi Monroe was always a strong student. In...

May 6

Olive-Harvey College alumna Tynia Frowner and Malcolm X College alumnus Contrell Lee share how the partnership...

Mar 25

I have always been enthusiastic about learning, and planned to attend college straight out of high...

Mar 17

Stephanie Hawkins-Guevara Deciding to return to school in 2013, after graduating high school in 1986, was...

Oct 11

Growing up in Rogers Park, Carita Bailey Thompson realized at a young age that she wanted...

Dec 22

Before Aziza Mohammadi arrived in Chicago as a 17-year-old refugee from Sri Lanka, she didn’t have...

Dec 22

Earning a degree and becoming a teacher was always a dream in the back of Joyce...

Dec 21

Chicago native Delilah Hernandez always had an interest in going to college, she just felt that...

Dec 21

When Tamba Torniwa lost his parents at a young age due to lack of medical care...

Jul 13

Kennedy-King College student Gerardo Franco has always known he wanted to work in film, but didn’t...

May 6