{"id":7068728,"date":"2026-09-28T00:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/wbez-news-what-chicago-youth-understand-about-9-11\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T00:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:07:38","slug":"wbez-news-what-chicago-youth-understand-about-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068728","title":{"rendered":"WBEZ News: What Chicago youth understand about 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5aeb7bb8e2ccd14dfc3d03ff\/1789591610570-ZTZKCH0WS9CRMRQWGKPX\/unsplash-image-tiwnfr7Kcck.jpg?format=1500w\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/somer-van-benton\">Somer Van Benton<\/a>&nbsp;| Sept 11, 2026, 6:15pm CDT<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/wbez-news\/2026\/09\/11\/what-chicago-youth-understand-about-9-11\" class=\"sqs-block-button-element--medium sqs-button-element--primary sqs-block-button-element\" data-sqsp-button><br \/>\n    listen here<br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1789591497234_1833\">Many people remember where they were or what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001. But there\u2019s a generation of people who only know life after 9\/11. WBEZ\u2019s Somer Van Benton spoke with some of Chicago\u2019s youth \u2014 those born after 2001 \u2014 about what they understand about the attack.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Somer Van Benton&nbsp;| Sept 11, 2026, 6:15pm CDT listen here Many people remember where they were or what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001. But there\u2019s a generation of people who only know life after 9\/11. WBEZ\u2019s Somer Van Benton spoke with some of Chicago\u2019s youth \u2014 those born after 2001 \u2014 about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7068729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[12846,1820,15626,229837,1509],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7068728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-chicago","tag-news","tag-understand","tag-wbez","tag-youth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WBEZ News: What Chicago youth understand about 9\/11 - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068728\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WBEZ News: What Chicago youth understand about 9\/11 - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Somer Van Benton&nbsp;| Sept 11, 2026, 6:15pm CDT listen here Many people remember where they were or what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001. 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