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They look little, but they're big on entertainment. Meet some real holiday "characters" who are the creations of two Chicagoans. CBS 2's Harry Porterfield says they're some people you should know.
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Harry Porterfield co-anchors the 11 AM news with Roseanne Tellez and continues the franchise he created at CBS 2 in 1977, "Someone You Should Know", a series of profiles on everyday people who make a difference.
No, he's not Colonel Sanders. Elmer Gylleck is an Elgin architect, historian and ventriloquist. 
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Marva Collins, a former Chicago Public Schools teacher, left to start a private school in her own home on the West Side. Watch The Video
The 4900 block of South Forrestville Avenue was cluttered with litter and junk in 1979. Daniel 'Sandman' Polk took it upon himself to clean it up. Watch The Video
At the age of 90, Isadore Weber was still working full time as a pharmacist at Jackson Park Hospital on the South Side. Watch The Video
Irwin Zevin is a police lieutenant in Streamwood and a talented artist. Watch The Video.
Wayman Davis was a 12-year-old 7th grader in 1983, but he was also the lead organist in his father's church. Watch The Video
Paula DeBois yearned to be in the sky her whole life. At the age of 25, she became first officer on a twice-daily commercial flight to Springfield. Watch The Video
Being unable to read or write is not an easy thing. Ed Saddler learned to read at a basic skills class after a troubled past. Watch The Video.
Eddie Plicque spent 50 years promoting and announcing boxing matches, including the famous fight between Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson on Sept. 25, 1962 at Comiskey Park. Watch The Video
