Eli Lilly stock jumps after fourth quarter earnings release
By Rachel Newman Eli Lilly and Co. stock jumped more than 3 percent as the company reported a 61 percent increase in fourth quarter earnings Tuesday. Shares of Eli Lilly were trading at $77.02 at the close of trading on Tuesday, up 3.1 percent. The Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company reported a fourth quarter profit of $771.8 […]
Lane Tech-Taft: A rivalry gone digital
By Rosie Langello In 2003, Mahmoud Abdelfattah was standing at the foul line on Taft’s Senior Night with two minutes left to play when a fight broke out in the stands. When he looked up, the entire student section started running towards him. “Before I knew it, I didn’t even have the ball anymore,” Adelfattah […]
Manpower’s fourth quarter revenue stalls on U.S. weakness
By Karen Lentz Milwaukee-based Manpower Group Inc. Tuesday reported a 2.8 percent rise in fourth quarter profit and virtually flat revenues that were adversely impacted by the strong U.S. dollar. The global staffing firm, whose results can provide an early indication of what’s to come for the economy, reported net income of $127.4 million, or […]
The number-cruncher behind the ‘Bama of college e-sports
By Yifan Wu In a season-opener against an unranked and little-known opponent, a college powerhouse fell behind by one point for less than two minutes. However, the head coach, who just came off a brief stint in the pros, buried his face in his hands and sighed in disbelief before rifling through the team analyst’s […]
War on the Shore showcases basketball, epilepsy awareness
By Eric Burgher Six of the top high school basketball teams in the Chicago area competed this weekend, but the focus of the day was off the floor as the Danny Did Foundation raised just over $3,300 for epilepsy awareness. The 7th Annual “War on the Shore” at Evanston High School was the foundation’s most […]
Trump Protesters React To A Pence Presidency With Mixed Reaction
By Abhinanda Datta The people who took to the streets on Friday, to protest against the president- elect’s inauguration, are hoping for and simultaneously dreading an impeachment – considering Vice President Mike Pence the lesser of the two evils. “Donald Trump has definitely got to go. His comments on grabbing women should have disqualified him, […]
White Sox fans “so over” Cubs’ success
By Elan Kane It is not easy being a White Sox fan these days. Susan Padove is a self-described White Sox “lifer.” She has been attending SoxFest, the annual White Sox fan convention, for decades. Surrounded by fellow fans waiting for the opening ceremony of this year’s SoxFest last weekend, she did not hold back […]
Protesters rock O’Hare over immigration ban
By Shen Lu America feels like a “huge prison” to Hadia Zarzour now. Zarzour, 37, a Muslim Syrian who holds a green card and works as a mental health therapist in Chicago, can’t leave her host country at the moment, nor can she reunite with her family due to come next week, whom she hasn’t […]
Photo Gallery: Trashing city’s streets while exercising democracy
By Alaina Boukedes Chicago joined more than 600 cities worldwide in anti-Trump protests. The Women’s March on Chicago drew more than 250,000 protesters, the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The city’s sanitation workers were left with cleaning up the trash left behind from the sister march. Photo at top: Trucks from the Chicago Streets […]
Could zero-waste be the new recycling?
By Alaina Boukedes There’s a new route in conservation called zero-waste, which is a lifestyle that cuts out all concept of waste by utilizing reusable products instead of plastics or disposables. From singles in the city to families in the suburbs, Chicago residents see this new concept as the ultimate step toward sustainability. In 2012 […]
