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Chicago, its places and things and ideas.

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It's the past and the present and the future standing side by side.

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Chicago, its people living up, living out and living in.

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To many who live in the city, Chicago is only a street, a building.

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This is the only world they know.

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The opportunities to know more are few.

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They were few.

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Thirteen years ago, an idea was born in Chicago.

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And at this school, it was first tried.

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The idea?

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If children aren't working up to their potential,

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if they are not stimulated, let's expand their horizons.

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Let's excite them.

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Twice each month, fifth and sixth graders, sixty of them,

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poured through this door and boarded buses to one of the city's cultural events.

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To an art exhibit, to a play, a concert.

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They knew what they were going to see.

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They were prepared.

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And when they returned, they talked about what they had seen and experienced.

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By year end, the results were measured.

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Classroom attendance, up.

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Interest, up.

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IQ scores, up.

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Not only in the fifth and sixth grades, but throughout the whole school.

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The following year, nine schools were sending their students to events in the city.

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And the next year, the number of schools increased to sixteen.

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Through federal recognition and money, the program grew.

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Artists came into the school to help open the doors to a world of adventure and experience.

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We will laugh when you laugh, cry when you cry, eat when you're hungry, drink when you're dry.

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We will laugh when you laugh, cry when you cry, eat when you're hungry, drink when you're dry.

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We will laugh when you laugh, cry when you cry, eat when you're dry.

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Hungry, eat, plenty.

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These skilled professionals, teaching as they entertained, brought with them,

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demonstrated the contributions of the many races and cultures that make up America.

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This is the symbol we use for the what?

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The one you find in the street and on the playground, right?

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The teacher, who at first only prepared her class for the artist, and afterward talked about the program,

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now received materials and instruction that qualified him to open more doors for the student.

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It was the student who now performed.

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Sounds of our neighborhood.

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A new kind of music.

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The sounds of the neighborhood.

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To touch, to feel, to know the awakening of another sense.

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Yeah, that's George moving too.

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The body, and another exciting discovery of how we move.

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This is okay?

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This is me?

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Yeah.

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If a carrot is only that large, can we cut one to scale, but large enough to climb inside?

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Yeah, I'm going in now.

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Wow.

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Wait, when he comes in, I'll run.

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Right here, get that off.

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Okay, next one.

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Everything is possible.

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The writing of poetry, and the understanding and appreciation of the words of others.

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Red is so wonderful.

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Blue is a color, but navy blue is different.

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It's the moon's glow on a cloudy night.

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It's navy blue alone, and no one can change it.

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Not 100 men or one alone.

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Children began seeing as they never saw before, through the lens of a television camera.

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Oh, it's shooting.

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Editing motion picture film into a logical sequence of events.

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Events staged in their neighborhood, on their street, in front of their house.

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And another door opens.

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Door after door opens.

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The child stands at the threshold of an immense gate.

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A gateway.

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An urban gateway.

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This is the program that exists today.

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The program that began with 60 children in one school is comprehensively at work in 50 schools.

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For nearly 45,000 school-aged children from kindergarten through eighth grade.

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Schools in six counties pay for and receive portions of the urban gateways program.

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Because they recognize you don't have to be poor to be culturally deprived.

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In Park Forest, Illinois, School District 163 is receiving the urban gateways program under a grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

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Urban gateways.

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This not-for-profit agency and its program have achieved national and international recognition.

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30 cities in the United States have or are contemplating a similar program.

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And inquiries have been received from Canada and places as distant as Australia.

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Urban gateways.

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It's one sporadic teacher training refined over a period of years is now offered at both Luke College and Circle Campus of the University of Illinois.

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College or academic credit is given for these courses at both the undergrad and graduate levels.

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Today's urban gateways activities involve parents.

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Parents want to keep up with their children.

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Many attend teacher workshops, act as chaperones, as volunteers, as members of a parent's advisory council to develop new programs, fill new needs.

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Urban gateways.

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Today it is far more than students attending the city's cultural events going behind the scenes to meet and learn from first-hand contact with performers.

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Urban gateways is 250 students in a choral program and 60 of the very best in the Chicago Children's Choir.

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And for the 60 very special children who exhibit the most artistic talent, there is urban gateways talent development program.

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Whatever their needs, an instrument, private lessons, or clothes to wear, this talent must be nurtured.

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It has already produced two scholarship recipients at Juilliard, four dance scholarship winners at Arthur Mitchell's Dance Theatre of Harlem.

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Talent development.

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What do these urban gateways programs cost?

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Surprisingly little.

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This inner city school has no urban gateway program at all.

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It should. It could.

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Its enrollment of 1,000 could have 12 in-school assembly programs, receive urban gateways 50% subsidy to attend the Chicago matinee series of youth concerts,

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transportation subsidies to out-of-school events, receive all preparatory and follow-up materials for $4,000.

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That's $4 per child for a school year.

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For its current year, urban gateways has a budget requirement of $663,907 for all of its existing programs.

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Government grants will provide slightly more than half that budget, leaving a requirement of less than $300,000.

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Foundations, social, civic, and religious groups will provide an additional 10% of urban gateways dollar needs.

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From the sale of its programs to school systems throughout the six counties of Illinois, urban gateways has an income of over $89,000.

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This year's program needs less than $150,000, and that leaves it to you.

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We trust that you, as an individual, will help urban gateways with a tax-deductible contribution toward a target of $33,000.

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And you, the corporation, we hope, will help us reach our goal of $110,000.

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You already know what we do and how we do it.

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Our end product is children who will know the strengths of other cultures, the richness of their own,

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who will lose their fear and mistrust of people of other races, and who will acquire essential skills.

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Who will develop a personal awareness of themselves and their unique abilities.

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That's Urban Gateways. Won't you please help us?

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Thank you.