Michele Norris

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715 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

Michele Norris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Because this, you know, incredible complex lands here right on the South Side of Chicago where you grew up.

What does it mean to you?

What does it mean to your community to have this level of investment in the place where a young Michelle LaVaughn Robinson grew up?

Yeah.

Did Double Dutch.

Well, let me bike around this area.

Let me give you a sense of what the community was like when I was growing up.

I was born in the 60s.

I think my parents moved from a little further south to 74th and Euclid with my Aunt Robbie when I was one.

So my adolescent years were in the 70s, and that was at the beginning of white flight.

So this community that we moved into was a mixed-race community, and it was people of all backgrounds and races, people...

planted their flowers and mowed their lawns.

My uncle Terry mowed his lawn, where kids played outside and there were block club parties.

But you could slowly see the slow deterioration

of the entire South Side, stores that were closing down.

You know, the park programs just kind of went away.

You just slowly noticed that the stuff wasn't there anymore.

And I think as I got older and started leaving my community, especially when I went to high school, which was a magnet high school on the West Side.

You went to Whitney Young.

Went to Whitney Young.

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