Speaker. some say life is but a mad journey over a rocky road with pitfalls along the way. For most kids where Jimmie came from it was worse than thathe. too. was a kid with a rather dismal future as he now looks back over the years. Taylor and Halsted on Chicagos West Side was teeming with immigrant populationsthousands of them. of all nationalities. a regular polyglot of humanseach group with Its Old World customs trudging along the path of poverty. The same old prejudices. practiced against the new citizens. It was a tough and rough go. And Jimmie and his family were no exception. Yet there was an ambitious gleam for accomplishment in the eyes of the immigrants and the fire in their souls told them that destiny owed each one of them a better future. It only meant hard work and more work. It was a battle from the very startthose who survived would come through.
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Immigrants are described as a "polyglot of humans" trudging along the path of poverty with old world customs.