Sun-Times reporter's Lithuania ties resonate
<p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-history/2026/07/22/stephanie-zimmermann-why-lithuania-chicago-longworth-media-fellowship" >“Why Lithuania?”</a> Stephanie Zimmermann's editor asked her. I’ve been on the receiving end of that question for the last 10 years.
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<p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-history/2026/07/22/stephanie-zimmermann-why-lithuania-chicago-longworth-media-fellowship" >“Why Lithuania?”</a> Stephanie Zimmermann's editor asked her. I’ve been on the receiving end of that question for the last 10 years. My body could feel the jolt she described feeling when a roadside sign matched a name in her grandparents' memoir; it was replaying my second trip to Lithuania when I visited Anykščiai for the first time.</p><p>I have chased that same thread across Lithuania more times than I can count. In 2016, I joined a company founded by Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago, unaware of my own family connection to the country.
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- <p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-history/2026/07/22/stephanie-zimmermann-why-lithuania-chicago-longworth-media-fellowship" >“Why Lithuania?”</a> Stephanie Zimmermann's editor asked her. I’ve been on the receiving end of that question for the last 10 years.
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