StoryCorps provides the opportunity to interview your friends and loved ones and record their voices and wisdom. The audio project was established to create an oral history of regular citizens, allowing everyday Americans to preserve personal stories for future generations of their own families, as well as the rest of the nation. StoryCorps was created by award-winning producer Dave Isay, who is best-known to Chicago audiences for Ghetto Life 101, the groundbreaking documentary chronicling the life of two thirteen-year-old boys growing up in Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project.

The StoryCorps MobileBooth was on the grounds of The Field Museum in downtown Chicago from August 18–September 5, 2005. The stories collected are part of an oral history archive preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Some of the stories were broadcast on Chicago Public Radio and others are available on our Web site.

StoryCorps Griot is a one-year initiative, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to collect interviews from at least 1,750 African Americans, with a special emphasis on the stories of World War II veterans and men and women involved in the Civil Rights struggle. StoryCorps Griot is stationed at the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago from June 21—July 27, 2007. Stories can be heard on Eight Forty-Eight.