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14 Chicagoans received $50,000 each to make a difference in the city. Here's how they plan to spend the dough.

Fictional best friends Leila and Patricia's beautiful story about navigating life and friendship as 20-something Chicagoans could easily have faded into internet abyss.

But local streaming service Open Television (OTV) gives indie work like "Brown Girls" - that feature people of color, usually short on air time - a voice.

Sam Bailey and Fatimah Asghar's web series is one of dozens of comedic and dramatic projects aided by the distribution and development company.

"I started the project to solve this issue: Why, if we can watch an artist's work online

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