How Seahawks fans find community at a Chicago sports bar
By Leah Vann Medill Reports Fans packed the Brownstone Tavern & Grill in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood for the Seattle Seahawks vs. the Green Bay Packers game in the NFC Divisional playoff. While the Seahawks lost their NFC Divisional game to the Green Bay Packers 28-23, their Chicago-area fans shared with me the story of how […]
Northwestern women’s basketball fights off Purdue to lock in 14th season win
By Jake Meister Medill Reports Northwestern University women’s basketball hosted Purdue Sunday evening, emerging victorious after nearly squandering an 18-point lead. The Wildcats grabbed their first win against the Boilermakers since 2016, squeaking out in a 61-56 nail biter. It marked the second straight game where NU head coach Joe McKeown’s team won by five […]
Chicago demonstrators call for no war with Iran
By Yun Hao Medill Reports “Having a dual citizenship — it’s like my parents are getting divorced,” said Negin Goodrich, an Iranian American who came to the anti-war demonstration with a sign featuring a photo of herself and her 75-year-old mother living in Iran. The peaceful demonstration to denounce any move toward war with Iran […]
Climate science pioneer Wallace Broecker memorialized at namesake symposium
By Zack Fishman Medill Reports The locked office of the late climate scientist Wallace “Wally” Broecker displays a wooden ship’s wheel, mounted on a window-paneled wall behind his former desk. The wheel overlooks the forested campus of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, where Broecker conducted research for nearly 70 years. It originated from one of […]
Art can be part of the scientific process, a climate scientist says
Anne Snabes Medill Reports Artists and designers can participate in the scientific method by talking with scientists, according to a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mika Tosca, who crosses worlds as a climate scientist and assistant professor at the SAIC, spoke at the annual meeting of the Bulletin of the […]
Mayor Lightfoot’s anti-violence budget sparks debate between non-profits and critics
By Arnab Mondal Medill Reports As he leaves his house every morning to go to his job, Kenneth Watkins’ mother wishes him a good day with a smile. “She used to look so worried whenever I left the house,” Watkins said. “The only thing she used to say to me was ‘Stay safe.’ But she […]
How prisoners count: the politics of prison gerrymandering in Illinois
By Joel Jacobs Medill Reports In Illinois, each person’s vote is not counted equally. A single vote for a state representative in Cook County is likely to wield less influence than one in Randolph County downstate. Why? Because Randolph County is located in Illinois House District 116, which is home to the Menard and Pinckneyville […]
Facebook groups establish community in one of Chicago’s newest neighborhoods
By Amy Sokolow Medill Reports Nicole Rohr Stephens moved back to Chicago from Alabama last year and almost immediately found out she was pregnant. The 34-year-old marketing manager had previously lived on the city’s North Side, but after relocating to the South Loop, she realized she had no idea where she would eventually send her […]
Homeless women face heightened threats of violence on streets
The woman’s full name in this story is being withheld to protect her privacy. By Sally Ehrmann Medill Reports Jen struts through the Harold Washington Library Center, stopping only to drop a few fraying books into the return bin. She produces a deep guttural laugh as she steps outside into the brisk November air and […]
Auto-voter registration in Illinois not complying with law, experts say
By Megan Sauer Medill Reports Jay Young celebrated in 2017 when then-Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the automatic voter registration bill into law. Young, among several other nonprofit and voting rights advocates, thought Springfield’s approval signaled the end of a long, painstaking process that had required months of political appeasing and redrafting legislation. “It felt like […]