UI math whiz Marquise Linnear from Chicago's West Side has beaten the odds with support from the Bottom Line program, which helps first-generation students from low-income backgrounds get into and graduate from college. Five years later, Marquise Linnear still remembers exactly how it happened. The attack came out of the blue. As the 14-year-old walked home from an after-school dance practice on Chicago's west side, a boy behind him asked for the time. Linnear was texting and didn't turn around as he answered — a mistake he realized even as it was happening. read more

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