Twenty visits. Twenty-six years. Eleven hundred people.

Cicero and Durango have been sending students to each other since 2000. Not one visit has been a tour. The students who come teach the course weekly at home, in Spanish — and translated it into three Indigenous languages to teach it there too.

Two towns keeping a promise, one October at a time.

Last year: charro suits, a singer and guitars for the welcome; a day at Lincoln Park Zoo. Far right: an earlier delegation at the Museum of Science and Industry.