Column: Aurora literacy group wins Library of Congress award
Jocefina Vargas has spent the last three decades – since coming to Aurora from Mexico as an 18-year-old – learning the English language. She got a good start her one and only year at East Aurora High School, and certainly made progress in Waubonsee Community College’s ESL program five years later. But speaking the language “is harder than what you learn in your head,” she found out. And it ...