‘Awakening the Giant’: La Casa Dorm Helps Latino Students Pursue College (audio slideshow)

Published Nov. 2, 2012 at Chicago Talks

Nearly a third of Chicago residents are Latino — but a small proportion of young people in Latino communities go to college. La Casa, a new dorm in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, has opened in hopes of encouraging more of them to go to school. Cindy Estrada, a student at Harold Washington College, is one of them.

An audio slideshow by Katie Kather