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Getting an early start: SIU architecture student already has designs on his future - The Chicago Crusader

by Pete Rosenbery Even though he’s a freshman in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s architectural studies program, Jordan Adams already has designs on his future. Adams, who is from Chicago, Illinois, was […]

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