Made in Chicago is a mosaic of stories by graduate students at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. It was published in June, 2015 and shows what makes this city unlike any other. (Full Made in Chicago site).
The student journalists strove to capture the good, the bad and the Malört.
After hours of reporting, transcribing, writing and coding, they published this collection of what’s been created, grown, enacted and built in Chicago.
CREATED
Jeppson’s Malort: A search for the origins of Chicago’s liquor
Violin-Making Tunes A Global Beat From Chicago
Citadels of Hope: YMCA outreach workers in Chicago
First Defense Legal Aid: Chicago lawyers give free counsel in free time
BUILT
Petro Peril: Shale Oil’s Dangerous Journey Across America
Bungalow: Chicago bungalow says welcome home for over a century
Puerto Rican Restaurateur finds ‘American Dream’ in Chicago
GROWN
Chicago Public Schools: Financial Woes
Pilsen: Green Dreams, Industrial Roots
Political newcomer defeats the mayor
ENACTED
Black lives tortured: Chicago awards reparations to survivors of Burge police torture
Midwives: Medical Societies Overshadow Growing Home birth Movement
Abortion Escorts — ‘Bubble Zones’
bursting with tension
