FORTY BLOCKS: Nicole Hollander

FORTY BLOCKS: Nicole Hollander

Hollander, Nicole

Breakthrough Film Crew

2016-03-26

Breakthrough Urban Ministries, a community based organization that provides social services on Chicago's West Side, and the Chicago History Museum collaborated on this oral history project. The Museum worked with Breakthrough's Film Crew, a group of nine young people from East Garfield Park and other West Side communities, to conduct these interviews. Breakthrough and the East Garfield Park Youth Collaborative recruited most of the narrators. Nicole Hollander was born in 1939 in Chicago. She grew up at 3914 West Congress Parkway. Ms. Hollander recalled a close-knit, diverse neighborhood. She graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960. After working as a graphic designer of a feminist publication, she gained some notoriety for her comics. She became a syndicated cartoonist for Tribune Media Services. Her most popular comic, Sylvia, was inspired by a friend of her mother’s and her experiences growing up on the West Side. In 2016, she was working on a memoir of he

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