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What’s in a name? For a vibrant nonprofit performing arts center on the border of Chicago’s Logan Square and Hermosa neighborhoods, the answer is ... everything.

If you ask Wanda Nguyen about her career plans, she does not hesitate with her answer: She will graduate from À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, attend dental school and eventually become an orthodontist, she says. And then she smiles.

Money is important to Steve Deeloo. Really important. It’s a value the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ senior developed growing up with his family in Iraq with little to get by.

As a professor in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s Department of , is passionate about the success of her students. But she knows firsthand that success in a university classroom doesn’t happen without plenty of preparation.