“It’s real far from a lot of stuff, which is fine. I mean, there’s so much stuff to do here that it’s not too bad. But that commute is pretty brutal.”

That commute is to Shimer College, a “great books” college in Bridgeport on the near South Side.

“Everyone should go there, because it’s great and wonderful,” Litaker says, before reciting a Shimer rhyme. “’Sex, drugs and Socrates. We kick ass at GREs.’ It’s totally grad school prep. That’s all it is.”

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