We are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Avita Duffy, staff writer here at the Federalist.

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So I'm going to talk a little bit today about Chicago.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm 23 and I graduated from the University of Chicago,

which is in Hyde Park, Chicago's South Side.

And it's a city that's really close to my heart.

You know, I spent most of my life in rural Wisconsin.

And the first big city that I ever was able to experience and get to know was Chicago.

And the first couple of years that I was there, I really fell in love with it.

You know, the University of Chicago has some problems, right, as any modern institution

does.

But the students there are extremely smart.

Every all the time I tell people I'm in awe of my classmates and how just so brilliant

all of them were and had, you know, the student population not been so wonderful.

I wouldn't have been able to create the Chicago thinker, which was a student publication

that I co-founded while there.

We did a lot of things.

We pushed back on CRT, on the Vax mandate, on mandatory testing for the unvaccinated.

And just all around campus groupthink, it was a blast.

And really I've made some life-long friendships from being there.

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