These stories are part of a digital series in which a number of people from Chicago talk about the ways that their lives have changed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. These people all have very diverse backgrounds. This document gives a…

This Block Club Chicago article has insight on how essential workers in Chicago's black and brown neighborhoods feel about having to take public transportation to work.

Information on where essential workers in Chicago, Illinois live, their incomes, and race data. Analysis was done with data from 2014 to 2018 from the American Community Survey.

A transcript of the interview between Christopher Perez and Juan Yahuitl on September 26, 2020

An image displaying the restaurant where Christopher Perez and Juan Yahuitl work.

Christopher describes the the first days of COVID as experienced by Juan Yahuitl, a restaurant worker from Freehold.

The interview was conducted over the phone with my grandmother, Paula A, in early October 2020.

Notable quotes transcribed from oral histories taken from Deborah Durand, Pamela Orlowicz, and Charles Orlowicz concerning the first days of the Covid-19 pandemic.