Up in Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago's Other Side

Acknowledgments

237 Acknowledgments Critique and encouragement from readers at various stages enabled this book.The professionals—Jon Billman, Sarah Burnes, Jennifer Carlson , Chris Parris-­ Lamb, and Sandi Wisenberg. Those as helpful as the professionals—Scott Dakin, Nate Dickerson, Robert Edwards, Beth Feest, Joseph Feest, Pete Fischer, Phuc Luu, Lou Markos, Pierre Matta, Ken Olsen, and J. Mark Price. Thank you as well to Deborah King and Julie Thomas at The Chicago Historical Society. Personal essay classes with Emily Fox Gordon and Amy Storrow at Inprint in Houston provided valuable insight into the craft of narrative writing, as did a nonfiction class with Anthony Swofford at the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop in Portland, Oregon.Thank you to everyone in those classes. Many thanks to Ascent, Cimarron Review, Southern Indiana Review, and The Summerset Review for input on the published excerpts. Thank you to everyone at the Cardinal Beran Library, nestled amongst the pine and live oaks along Memorial Drive, for the hospitality and writing solitude. Uncle Brent, thanks for the “Other” subtitle! For Elisabeth Chretien in Iowa City: Thank You for an entire Creative Nonfiction-­ MFA in thirty-­ two single-­spaced pages and all the subsequent cyber-­ink! With all matters technical, thanks toWill Tyler and CharlotteWright. I stand in great debt to my former fellow children’s attendants (impossible to mention everyone) and certain caseworkers and supervisors. My deepest gratitude is to Attendants Childress, House, Ordonez, Price, and Tanner for their warmth and assistance in a universe far more familiar to them than to me. To Alejandro, Christopher, Corey, Darrell, Derris, Devon, Heriberto, Jermal, Juan, Robert, and Taroderick—your real names, I did what I could, I think and hope. If only it could have been more. And to Jerome and Terry from before. Wherever all of you might be now, may you reach some new place. ...