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Mark Jaeschke

interviewed 2022

Mark Jaeschke was born in Lima, Peru but was raised by his adoptive parents in Arlington Heights, Cook County, Illinois. In this interview clip, Mark describes how being a transracial adoptee and growing up in a mostly-white suburb led him to struggle with his identity early in life.

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Elizabeth Barrios

associate Professor, interviewed 2025

Elizabeth Barrios is currently Associate Professor of Spanish at Albion College. Barrios grew up in Mérida, Venezuela, but emigrated with her family to the Aurora, Illinois area at age 12, just as Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela for the first time. In this interview, Barrios describes with brilliant complexity the challenges of being part of an early wave of Venezuelan migration to the US, and how it shaped her worldview, career, and scholarship. She shares her deep insight into the roots and reality of the recent out-migration of millions of people from Venezuela to places such as Illinois. This interview is part of a Mellon Foundation-funded series of oral history interviews that will examine the history and present of the Venezuelan migration to Chicagolandia.

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Luis & Lorena Muñoz

Chilean immigrants, interviewed 2018

Luis and Lorena Muñoz are originally from Talca, Chile. In this interview, they describe coming of age under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, the fear-filled climate of their youth, friends who were arrested or disappeared, and facing Chilean police during protests against the regime. The couple shares the joys and difficulties of moving to Mexico and later the United States. They raised their children in the Elgin area.

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