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Boats on San Francisco Bay near a beach

In chilly San Francisco Bay, open-water swimmers find warmth in community

Orlando Rivera, executive director and co-founder of the Chicago Cuatro Orchestra in Humboldt Park, strums a five-string tiple, a cousin of the cuatro instrument, on Jan. 8, 2026, at Humboldt Park Fieldhouse.

An orchestra reborn: How Chicago, the cuatro and a car crash reinvigorated Orlando Rivera’s career 

Rev. Jesse Jackson with two men, the Rev. Charles Jenkins and the Rev. Reginald Sharpe

WATCH: Chicagoans remember life, legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson

Bad Bunny at Super Bowl halftime show press conference

Rhetoric around Bad Bunny halftime show is projection, manifestation of America’s polarized political culture, scholars say

People at NFL Pride House Super Bowl event

NFL’s Pride Flag Football Clinic marks major milestone for San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community

Indiana’s “Big Wes” Martin stands tall in Big Ten and hometown

July 25, 2018

By Robbie Weinstein Medill Reports Indiana offensive lineman Wes Martin is so strong, Hoosiers safety Jonathan Crawford doesn’t like to watch him lift. In fact,

Pitchfork Music Festival 2018 fashion looks

July 25, 2018

By Katelyn Sabater Medill Reports In an age of social media and high-quality iPhone photography, music festivals have become the perfect backdrop for any fashionista’s

Ohio State Head Coach Urban Meyer

Big Ten Media Days continues with Urban Meyer and Lovie Smith

July 24, 2018

By Nick Mantas Medill Reports Day 2 of Big Ten Media Days featured coaches with different realistic goals. Ohio State Head Coach Urban Meyer is

Nebraska head coach Scott Frost answers questions at his opening press conference on Monday, July 23, 2018 at Big Ten Media Days (Chris Kwiecinski/MEDILL).

Commentary: Scott Frost is where he belongs. Now he’s ready to make up for Nebraska’s lost time

July 24, 2018

Py Patrick Engel Medill Reports Scott Frost should have been here three years ago. Something just seems right about him standing behind a podium with

Medill Reports' Connor Yahn

Big Ten Media Days kicks off with Fitzgerald, Harbuagh & more

July 24, 2018

By Nick Mantas Medill Reports Big Ten conference head football coaches stepped up to the microphone to face the media and talk about their upcoming

Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh says ‘willingness on both parts’ needed to continue rivalry vs. Notre Dame

July 23, 2018

By Chris Kwiecinski Medill Reports Michigan will play Notre Dame for the first time since 2014 on September 1, renewing a rivalry between two of

Tech hub 1871 celebrates its seventh cohort of female start-up founders

July 20, 2018

By Alexa Adler Medill Reports The seventh cohort of WiSTEM, 1871’s pre-accelerator program for female start-up founders, celebrated the completion of its 12-week program and

Mosa Meat

New funding pushes lab-grown meat closer to reality

July 19, 2018

By Brady Jones Medill Reports Netherlands-based Mosa Meat announced Tuesday that it had secured €7.5 million in new funding to support its efforts to produce

Dairy Farmers Struggle With Economic, Health Challenges

July 11, 2018

By Brian Baker Medill Reports Andrews University opened its dairy farm in 1907. For more than a century, the private college in southwest Michigan used

Jesus Coll

Meet Jesus Coll, one of the first college students in the U.S. to receive an athletic scholarship for esports

July 10, 2018

By Daniel Comer Medill Reports The next big thing in college athletics is simmering beneath the city streets of downtown Chicago, tucked away in a

Demonstrators gather at Richard J. Daley Center before the march.

Families Belong Together rally in Chicago

July 3, 2018

By Katelyn Sabater Medill Reports While an estimated 2,000 immigrant children wait to reunite with their families, tens of thousands of protesters took to the

KPMG Women’s PGA Championship; day 2

June 28, 2018

By Darren Zaslau Medill Reports Three U.S. Olympians addressed the media prior to the start of the 2018 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at the Kemper

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