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“Today’s announcement has been more than six years in the making with the people of Pilsen standing shoulder-to-shoulder, demanding affordable housing, and that collective fight was for the social fabric of an entire community that stretches beyond this intersection,” Pilsen Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez said in a statement. “Thanks to our city and to our community, this is how we stop displacement together.”

“Today’s announcement has been more than six years in the making with the people of Pilsen standing shoulder-to-shoulder, demanding affordable housing, and that collective fight was for the social fabric of an entire community that stretches beyond this intersection,” Pilsen Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez said in a statement. “Thanks to our city and to our community, this is how we stop displacement together.”

She found camaraderie by talking to staffers also working overnight, and thanked people who helped her get home safely, from flight attendants to, later, an air traffic controller she connected with after her Twitter thread spread. Having worked in the service industry, Robicelli knows how much a seemingly small sentence can matter. “Have you ever gotten an unsolicited compliment, and it just makes your day? I could do that literally every time I talk to somebody,” she said.

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That said, all of the union actors in director Jackson Gay’s modestly scaled production are strong. Alongside the honest Chicago actors Chiké Johnson, Keith D. Gallagher, Jonathan Moises Olivares and the especially excellent Elizabeth Laidlaw (who all play folks belonging to Harry’s group) is Melissa Gilbert, the former child actor who played Laura Ingalls Wilder on the beloved NBC series “Little House on the Prairie” and who here plays the therapist. She feels very invested in this project, too, and you can feel the scale of her emotional commitment.

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