Category: Winter 2017

Lorayne Williams operates a CNC milling machine at the training facility of the Technology & Manufacturing Association in Schaumburg. (Mengjie Jiang/Medill)

West Siders Train For New Life

By Mengjie (Jessie) Jiang When Zachary Wright, 23, quit his job as a burger maker at McDonald’s six months ago and enrolled in Bethel New

Existing-Home Sales Jump to 10-Year High

By Christine Huang Existing-home sales leapt to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5.69 million in January, up 3.3 percent from an upwardly revised 5.51 million

Tokyo pharmacies cater to foreign shoppers

By Beixi (Bessie) Xu Yuhong Liu, a traveler from Beijing, was shopping with his friends in Matsumoto Kiyoshi, Japan’s most popular pharmacy, near Shibuya station.​

U. of C. Students protest speech by Ex-Trump Aide

By Derek Robertson University of Chicago students recently protested a seminar featuring former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, stoking political divisions on campus. The