OTL #979: Clarendon Hills Kid, Share Our Spare provides community resources

Update: 2025-07-19

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Mike Stephen talks to Roger Day Bain, the author of a new book about growing up in suburban Clarendon Hills called Clarendon Hills Kid and a book about a very non-linear career path entitled Hardly Working: How I Found a Career and Kept My Soul. Then, we learn about the continuing great work of Chicago's Share Our Spare and its quest to find new funding partnerships from executive director Alex Goodfellow.

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OTL #979: Clarendon Hills Kid, Share Our Spare provides community resources

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OTL #979: Clarendon Hills Kid, Share Our Spare provides community resources

Mike Stephen

OTL #979: Clarendon Hills Kid, Share Our Spare provides community resources