What's your name?
Eli Chen
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Where do you consider your hometown to be?
Hoffman, Estates, IL
What are you doing for us here at STLPR?
I'm the new environment and science reporter.
Care to share a piece of audio or story you're proud of? What's in store for our listeners and web readers?
What's one thing you'd like to know about St. Louis?
I live right by the very tall and strange Compton Reservoir water tower. Why does it look the way it does?
What's a most treasured possession that you have at your desk?
My special shot glasses featuring animal space pioneers: before humans were comfortable with going into space, we launched our pets to test the waters and now they are remembered in shot glass form.