Students who protested what they saw during a field trip to Chicago's History Museum sparked a new exhibit that will open this month after years in the making.

" Aquí En Chicago ," which opens to the public Oct. 25 in both English and Spanish, is a project more than six years in the making. It will showcase arts, culture, personal stories of heroism, and Chicago's role in the sanctuary movement.

The exhibition is a response to a student protest, as Jesse Betend explains in "Building Aquí,” which launched its first episode, "The Missing Exhibition," Oct. 1.

"A group of students from Chicago's South Side took a field trip to the Chicago History Museum. They were not impressed," he narrates, introducing listeners to the catalyst for the museum's exhibition.

Those students, from the Inst

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