{"id":36652,"date":"2016-03-10T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=36652"},"modified":"2016-03-10T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T23:03:00","slug":"local-college-women-answer-the-call-for-hillary-at-old-town-phone-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/local-college-women-answer-the-call-for-hillary-at-old-town-phone-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Local college women answer the call for Hillary at Old Town phone bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jasmine M. Ellis and Torene Harvin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">With the March 15 Illinois primary less than a week away, local college students hosted an evening of phone banking for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday at the Parkway Ballroom in Old Town.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by\u00a0Hillary for America,\u00a0several of the volunteers remember meeting Clinton at a young age and wanting to be like her since childhood. A mixed crowd, most volunteers were women.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>DePaul University student Catherine Vegis said she has always been inspired by Clinton. In fact, when she was in the fourth grade, she dressed like Clinton for a class project. From that moment, Vegis believed it was inevitable Clinton would run for president.<br \/>\n[vimeo 158546887 w=474]<br \/>\n\u201cFor me Hillary has been very outspoken and progressive within her ideas not just for women but for all minorities, and that\u2019s something that I am here advocating for,\u201d Vegis said. \u201cWe can continue to move that bar and reach that glass ceiling and break through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: &#8220;Can you talk?&#8221; Check. &#8220;Are you registered to vote?&#8221; Check. Chicago students drum up support for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at an Old Town phone bank Thursday. (Jasmine M. Ellis and Torene Harvin\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jasmine M. Ellis and Torene Harvin With the March 15 Illinois primary less than a week away, local college students hosted an evening of phone banking for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday at the Parkway Ballroom in Old Town. 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