H-1B Lottery: Foreign Workers’ Strategic Path to Immigration
By Yunfei Zhao International college students fully expect to go back home when they graduate — that’s the deal — except when it’s not. That’s when things get interesting for federal immigration officials running the H-1B visa program that allows international workers to take jobs at U.S. companies. Then, the deal is those jobs can […]
From rugby to NFL: New Zealander’s unconventional journey to Bears
Q & A with Paul Lasike, Chicago Bears hopeful at running back By Aishwarya Kumar Lakshminarayanapuram Set aside the fact that Paul Lasike, currently a practice squad running back for the Bears, did not start playing football until his sophomore year at Brigham Young University. He never watched a football game until the age of 20. Lasike […]
Rebel Rouser: High school activist speaks up for better education
By Morgan Gilbard Nidalis Burgos stood her ground when police threatened to arrest her during a school closings protest in 2013. A teacher told Burgos, who was only 15 at the time, that the incident would cost her a future. “My eighth-grade teacher came into the classroom and said, ‘Hey, just so you know, if […]
Wolves Cap 4-Game Homestand with Loss to Griffins
By EmmaKate Austin The Chicago Wolves hosted the Grand Rapids Griffins for a school-day game Tuesday morning, giving local schoolchildren the chance to watch and learn. The Wolves played strong for the first 5 minutes, but then goalie Jordan Binnington allowed 3 goals in just over a minute and Chicago ultimately fell 5-0 to the […]
Dip in new home sales merely a bump in market’s recovery road: economists
By Steven Porter New home sales fell short of expectations in January, but economists remain confident the housing market’s recovery will continue bit by bit. Single-family houses sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 494,000 last month, 9.2 percent below the 544,000 economists surveyed by Yahoo Finance had been expecting, according to a report […]
Once booming, Pakistan’s bourse now sees some bloody days
By Harvard Zhang Karachi, Pakistan — The year 2016 promised much, but so far delivered little in return as the KSE-100 Index has shed 5.5 percent. Pakistan’s equity market has been subject to a persistent drain of foreign investment amid a global selloff since the beginning of the year, despite the January merger of three […]
When Food Stamps Fall Short, Local Pantries Step In
By Anna Boisseau The well-stocked food pantry at St. Ignatius Church saw few visitors on Wednesday at the start of January. According to volunteer Anita Goldstein that is because, as patrons can only visit once a month, they generally come towards the end once Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and paychecks have run out. […]
Musical celebrating Chicago’s black cultural history to debut at the Chicago Theater
By Marisa Endicott For one night this Saturday, Bronzeville is taking over the Chicago Theater. “Bronzeville The Musical” tells the story of the Great Migration, the exodus of African-Americans from southern states to northern cities during the greater part of the 20th century. The musical, an original production by the Chicago-based Mahdi Theatre Company, celebrates the arrival […]
Health care organizations push increased access to birth control in Illinois
By Enrica Nicoli Aldini Oregon made birth control available for purchase directly at a pharmacy without obtaining a doctor’s prescription last January. California will do the same in March. And now, health care organizations in Illinois are working with state legislators to increase access to birth control methods without additional costs, possibly making it available […]
Chicago legal center pilots job training, housing program
By Harry Huggins Fredrick Dennis, Darrin Brown and Cecil Palmer are three young men renovating their own apartment on Chicago’s West Side. They’re part of the MAC House, a new program from the Lawndale Christian Legal Center that combines transitional housing with job training. The guys in the program have one thing in common: they’ve […]
