WATCH: Chicago This Week — Season 6, Episode 1
By Morgan Hawes and Victoria Olaleye Medill Reports In this season’s first episode of “Chicago This Week,” reporters cover new efforts to make riding the
April 9, 2026
By Morgan Hawes and Victoria Olaleye Medill Reports In this season’s first episode of “Chicago This Week,” reporters cover new efforts to make riding the
By Thomas Hodgkins Medill Reports Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, an independent movie theater, is expanding despite national movie theater attendance declining. Owner and CEO Brody
By Naisha Roy Medill Reports SALINAS, PUERTO RICO — In Puerto Rico, the symbols are everywhere. Spirals and almost-cubist faces representing the sun, the coquí frog and other pieces of
By Daniela Cantu Medill Reports With the flick of a switch, Davis Theater program director Peter Kuli casts a red, velvety glow over the 276
By Sydney Meyer Medill Reports Beginning in October 2024, Caleb Harbin regularly stood onstage in front of an eager audience, downed four shots of a liquor of
By Morgan Norris Medill Reports Henry Broomfield spent 26 years inside Stateville Correctional Center, where, according to the John Howard Association, inmates lived with hazardous water and falling ceilings. Now free, he and others
By Phoebe Bock Medill Reports Even as a 4-year-old doodler, sitting at a picnic table and coloring with crayons, Christina Villa knew she wanted to be an
By Mallory Evans Medill Reports As the auditorium lights dim, some 20 orchestral musicians pick up their various stringed instruments and begin to play lively
By Morgan Norris Medill Reports The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the iconic civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, died Tuesday surrounded by family at his
By Hailey Bosek Medill Reports Editor’s note: Tribal affiliations, if any, are noted in parentheses after names. Hailey Bosek · Sounds at the Powwow