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Maria Estela Parra didn’t know how to sew and knew even less about sports when W.G.N. Flag and Decorating Co. hired her as a seamstress in 1986.
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Chicago Tribune

Meet the Mexican immigrant who made retirement banners for Michael Jordan and Derrick Rose

When Maria Estela Parra, the 64-year-old Mexican seamstress responsible for many of Chicago’s most iconic sports banners, saw herself on the Jumbotron at a Chicago Bulls game last month, hand-stitching Derrick Rose’s retirement banner, she pointed to the screen stunned and said, “That’s me.”

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