It is not often you get an assignment in your home town. I had to laugh as after twenty years of commuting to Kentucky to photograph I had just moved when I received the assignment to photograph back in Evanston, Illinois. I was grateful for the opportunity to photograph this important story. Thank you de_Volkskrant, Veronique Smedts, journalist Michael Persson and a special thanks to Robin Sudduth for her help and friendship and all those great Evanstonians.