High School Days, and Deejay Dreams:
I was fourteen when I entered the world of high school. The Chicago High School for Metropolitan Studies was located at 33 East Congress on the southwest corner of Congress and Wabash, diagonally across the street from Roosevelt University, and two blocks away from Columbia College Chicago and a block north of Jones Commercial high School, a two year college prep public school that required students to wear business attire on campus. Metro was located just outside of the downtown area of the city, not far from what is now commonly referred to as the South Loop. There were several downtown apartment buildings nearby, but the area was also populated with homeless folk. Pacific Gardens Mission was situated next to Printing House Row, Dearborn Park Apartments and Two East Eighth, a luxury high rise that is now a co-ed student dorm. Being a Metro student meant that you were in the middle of everything socially speaking, from yuppies, to seedy characters who hung out around the corne...