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Norilsk, Siberia, is the largest town in the world north of the Arctic Circle and the most polluted. Stalin built this town as a gulag to send political prisoners to work camps at the nickel mines and smelters. Conditions at the Norilsk mine and…

Spear fisherman have learned to string their catch out on lines instead of stringing them around their waist. Having bleeding fish tied around your waist in shark infested waters is not a good idea.

A prominent family wedding like this one may have 14 flower girls, 14 ring boys, 14 bridesmaids, 14 groomsmen and cost as much as $50,000. Wedding are funded by the entire community and are mostly about the consolidation of power between two chiefs.

Bungalow Life, Many people still live in the one story bungalows that are a common part of the housing stock in Southeast. This past year the City Council passed a bill to help protect the approximately 80,000 bungalows in the city from further…

Front Yard Haircut, An afternoon haircut just north of Division Street. This stretch of Division was know as 'Polish Broadway' because so many bars packed the area between Ashland and Damen avenues. Today, most local manufacturing companies have left…

In recent history pockets of industry could be found across the city. Until twenty years ago, US Steel and Republic Steel anchored this neighborhood which now feels abandoned and unattached to the growth and development taking place in many other…

Get Down...Get Down, Giselle Morales, left, and Olga Gonzalez dance at the Puerto Rican Festival in Humboldt Park.

We're in this Together, The Nino family waiting in the car outside a family member's apartment on the way to Aldi's supermarket.

Ketchup bottles, Good Friday, Chicago.

Police, When the owner of the building refused to pay the contractor, the contractor in turn refused to pay the workers. After being physically expelled from the building, Antonio Velazquez waits for the Chicago Police to file a complaint. Velazquez…