Downtown Street Performers Ban Deferred
By Wen-Yee Lee Street performers have become a staple along Michigan Avenue, but that could change if one Chicago alderman has his way. Chicago City Council voted Feb. 22, deferring the proposed ordinance led by the 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly, which restricts street performers on Michigan Ave. and State Street. [vimeo 207517954] Photo at […]
Student Artists Finish Their First Public Art Project
By Wen-Yee Lee Fifteen student artists are working with artists from Chicago Public Art Group to design a mosaic fountain for ChiCAT Arts School, Chicago Center for Arts and Technology. This will be these students’ first public art project with an agency. [vimeo 207514202] Photo at top: Mosaic patterns that were made by student artists […]
Northwestern aims to reach new heights in Big Ten Tournament
By Yifan Wu Between a Hail Mary buzzer-beater to beat Michigan and a nationally televised nail-biter loss Sunday to Purdue, the first week of March has provided plenty of drama for the Northwestern Wildcats. Their plan for the sequel? Pack confidence and toughness accumulated from the regular season and bring it to the Big Ten […]
Climate Leadership Conference recognizes the connection between business and climate
By Alaina Boukedes The 2017 Climate Leadership Conference welcomed the nation’s top industry professionals to promote a cleaner environment and develop partnerships between businesses and agencies. The primary focus of the conference to discuss sustainable business practices like “Carbon Cutting Solutions for the Built Environment,” which focused on adapting our current buildings. “The build environment […]
Loyola Academy assistant juggles work, school and basketball
By Andres Waters As surgeons performed a routine debridement, an interesting conversation began in the operating room at the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute. With a camera in one side of the patient’s left knee and a shaver in the other, two men listed players from the 1999 Buffalo Bills roster while looking at the […]
“Affordable” Housing Goes Mainstream
By Mindy Tan From the outside, Evergreen Tower 1 looks no different from any other apartment building. Located in the high-rent River North neighborhood of Chicago, it is within easy walking distance of groceries and other amenities. Inside, a bank of computers and a couple of exercise machines line one wall of a sprawling community […]
Value of sports goes beyond playing for female athletes
By Giuliana Allegrotti Before Teri Rodgers took over the girls’ basketball program at New Trier High School in 1999, all the team’s games were played in G110, a smaller practice gym on campus adjacent to the main gym, where the boys played. The whole setup felt stringent to Rodgers; the main gym somehow belonged to […]
A way back home: Art as recovery for rape victims in Chicago
by Ritu Prasad At first, the photographs seem unremarkable—a pair of well-worn shoes, a flannel shirt, gray sweatpants. Floating on a black background, hung on a clean white wall, these 12 photographs show what 12 rape victims wore at the time of their assault. The series, titled “Well, What Were You Wearing?” by Katherine Cambareri, […]
African refugees seek a new life in South Africa
By Emilie Syberg South Africans live, work, and study alongside refugees and migrants from Somalia to Mozambique, drawn by the promise of a better life. But xenophobia has frequently made its presence known, most recently at an anti-immigrant march last month in Pretoria, South Africa’s capital city. Emilie Syberg talked to refugees and migrants in […]
Heads held high: Von Steuben exits season with optimism
By Karl Bullock It’s past 8:30 p.m. at Whitney Young Magnet High School during the first matchup of the IHSA regional playoff matchup between Von Steuben and Riverside Brookfield. With less than a minute left in the fourth quarter, players and coaches on both benches show a stark contrast in body language despite a mere […]
