
WATCH: The Power of Puns in Advertising
By MacKenzie Coffman Medill Reports Several years ago, local hair restoration company Restore launched an advertising campaign with former Bears player Brian Urlacher. The company’s

By MacKenzie Coffman Medill Reports Several years ago, local hair restoration company Restore launched an advertising campaign with former Bears player Brian Urlacher. The company’s

By Hannah Beir and Poonam Narotam Medill Reports After a pandemic-induced hiatus in 2021, the Mardis Gras celebrations in New Orleans came back this year.

By Sarah Berman Medill Reports Does hearing the happy birthday tune make you cringe? Do you dread seeing the number of candles on your cake

By Julia Binswanger Medill Reports Kim Kardashian and the models on the Balenciaga runway don’t need to worry about cleaning their “pantaboots” (aka “joots”). But

By Jane Vaughan Medill Reports In May, a draft decision from the Supreme Court of the United States was leaked, revealing the court had voted

By Seth Humeniuk Medill Reports As the war in Ukraine rages on, millions of Ukrainians have been forced to flee their country. Many have made

As part of the Medill Media Teens program, Chicago Public School students received training and worked closely with Medill master’s students to report and write

By Hannah Baggenstoss Medill Reports Jordyn Taylor was born with a tangle of abnormal blood vessels in her brain resembling a clot. A risky but

By Menghan Xiao Medill Reports Since 2005, when Jim Darmiento quit his job at a global company to start a crab fishing business, he has

By Mollie Rotmensch Medill Reports Katie Lauffenburger is sculpting a new Chicago, but no moving in unless you’re a Crown Jewel shrub. This city of