Chicago twins Lloyd, Floyd Russell graduate high school from Cornerstone Academy

For the previous 5 years, ABC7 Chicago Reporter Stacey Baca has chronicled their lives as they develop up on Chicago’s West Facet since they have been simply 13 years outdated.

Through the years, their grandmother died, they moved 4 instances, a bullet pierced certainly one of their properties they usually’ve modified from public to a personal faculty.

Floyd and Lloyd: A West Facet story

Wednesday evening, the twins graduated from Cornerstone Academy in Oak Park.

“It means quite a bit, particularly to my grandmother, as a result of all she talked about was training,” Lloyd Russell stated. “And we made it.”

West Facet twins Floyd and Lloyd come of age, regardless of challenges

The twins are making ready to go to Arrupe School of Loyola College of Chicago within the fall.

“Going to varsity for me is one other chapel, one other step into manhood, into changing into an grownup, a younger grownup,” Floyd Russell stated. “Me and my brother shall be dwelling on campus downtown so we’re getting a better bond.”

They plan to be roommates.

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