Category: Spring 2016

Fat Rice

Fat Rice brings Macau to Chicago

By Nona Tepper She is Chinese-American, from Chicago. He is Portuguese- American, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, an area with a large Southeast Asian population. But

Muslim men attend the Friday sermon on Nov. 11 at a mosque in downtown Chicago where the cleric allayed fears following the election of Donald Trump as president. (Medill/Shahzeb Ahmed)

Fear and coping in Muslim America

By Muna Khan and Shahzeb Ahmed The third floor of the Downtown Islamic Center in Chicago fills quickly with men of all races and ethnicities—Arabs

Rodrigo Vences, employee at the Honorary Consulate of Mexico in Chicago, explaining citizenship process with prospective applicant.

Can’t vote? Next step: become a citizen

By Katanga Johnson [An earlier version of this story ran election night on Medill Reports.] As more than one hundred million Americans cast their ballots