While DeAngela Williams' friends are working at fast-foodrestaurants and malls this summer, she has helped clear a vacant lot,put up fences, dig ditches and cut two-by-fours to build a house.
And once the house is built, her family will have theopportunity to buy it for the cost of materials.
"This is a change of pace. I have a job, plus I'm learningsomething new," said Williams, 16, one of 18 students building ahouse at 44th and University Avenue.
Williams is among more than 100 Chicago area high schoolstudents in the Student Builders program, working with contractors,carpenters, electricians and plumbers this summer at five sitesthroughout the city. At …
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