Grappling with grief: the Frances Flowers story

By Iacopo Luzi Frances Flowers is trying to overcome the hardest tragedy of her life: she lost her daughter Taylor almost three months ago. Taylor Flowers was killed by her boyfriend on March 11th of this year.  He later killed himself. Flowers was shot with an illegal gun after a domestic dispute. The couple had […]

The farm that refugees call home

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By Nikita Mandhani The Global Gardens Refugee Training farm is a one-acre plot of land in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago that serves about 100 refugee families mostly from Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma) and Congo. For Linda Seyler, the founder, director and the farm manager, the program is a way to help refugees segue into the American […]