The Bumble burnout: As dating app enthusiasm dims, industry scrambles to prove digital matching can still deliver meaningful connections
By Emma Urdangen Medill Reports Walking out of a Washington, D.C., dive bar after her fifth terrible app-date of the month, 23-year-old Carly HoganBruen knew something wasn’t working. That night, “David” took a 20-minute call during dinner to chat with his sister, then ended the date early. The week before, “Mark” said he “couldn’t stop […]
Asian supermarkets in Chicago serve as community hubs. Now they’re bracing for effects of tariffs.
By Alyssa Rola Medill Reports Every time she gets sick, Wanmin Zhang habitually looks for her personal cure: her parents’ home-cooked Chinese meals. The 28-year-old support engineer, who was born in southern China but grew up in Chicago, can only fend for herself as an adult. She’d visit Asian grocery stores to cop intricate ingredients […]