Chicago writer and Eight Forty-Eight Poet in Residence Kevin Coval says we share a very tangible form of mass communication, starting at the low-low price of $2.25. In the first in a series of essays, Kevin Coval hits the Red Line to start his journey in Chicago’s Chinatown. 

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