Former Athlete Helping Others Find Their Identity
By Nick Mantas Medill Reports High school athletes who don’t play sports in college all go through a transitional period of what life is like
Getting to know sharks one tag at a time
Mollie McNeel Medill Reports Sharks. They’re everyone’s favorite underwater enemy. Between nerve-wracking drama’s like Jaws to stories about prehistoric mega-sharks, we have all but made
Chicago is stepping up to be a trading hub for crypto
By Jinman Li Medill Reports Chicago is becoming a honeypot for cryptocurrency and will attract more and more crypto companies in the future, panelists said
On track or in life, Cassie Bloch runs as a true fighter
By Athena Liu Medill Reports It was 90 degrees and the humidity high in Terra Haute, Indiana Sunday as Loyola senior Cassie Bloch ran the
Always on alert! Two days in the national Storm Prediction Center
By Morgan Levey Medill Reports Medill News Service reporter and Comer Scholar Morgan Levey spent two days in the NOAA Storm Prediction Center (SPC) located
Back on ground
After her short-but-intense campaign in the Democratic primary to represent Illinois’ fourth Congressional District, Sol Flores returns to her roots as an affordable housing advocate.
Chicago residents grapple with saving and spending
By Minghe Hu Medill Reports As a father of eight children, George Grea works hard at two jobs to pay off debts, his mortgage and
Relation between money and happiness contingent on an individual’s situation
By Jinman Li Medill Reports Whether money can buy happiness varies among individuals, contingent on their backgrounds and situations and how much money the person
International Rugby Coming to Chicago
By Nick Mantas Medill Reports At a news conference inside Soldier Field it was announced The Rugby Weekend will be held in Chicago once again.
People may not inherit parents’ money DNA, experts say
By Roxanne (Yanchun) Liu Medill Reports Lori Schwartz’s father, a 74-year-old doctor, only goes to restaurants for dinner where he can use coupons. Raised in
The hunt for the return of the river herring
Medill News Service journalist Mollie McNeel is writing a series of stories from embedded reporting with field researchers for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in
Coach Jared Voss Gets Win Number 500
By Nick Mantas Medill Reports Illinois high school baseball has a new member in the 500 club. Joliet Catholic Academy’s Head Baseball Coach Jared Voss