Michele Norris

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583 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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Otherwise, it's the South Side.

Yeah.

Well, I want to talk to you about the South Side.

What do you want to know?

Because this 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, rode her 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.

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