Breadcrumb Home From Chicago's mean streets to Iowa MBA Friday, September 28, 2012 Iowa City Press-Citizen http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-27/from-chicagos-mean-streets-to-b… Cheeni Rao went from being a junky and street thug to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, wrote an acclaimed memoir and is now in the full-time MBA program in the Tippie School of Management.