WBEZ News: What Chicago youth understand about 9/11

By Somer Van Benton | Sept 11, 2026, 6:15pm CDT

Many people remember where they were or what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001. But there’s a generation of people who only know life after 9/11. WBEZ’s Somer Van Benton spoke with some of Chicago’s youth — those born after 2001 — about what they understand about the attack.