WATCH: Chicago This Week — Season 4, Episode 3
Text by Mary Grace Grabill Medill Reports In this week’s episode of “Chicago This Week,” reporters take a look at how Chicagoans are enjoying the warmer temperatures. We have an update on the Masters, and a former NFL player joins us in the studio to talk about his charity. “Chicago This Week” is a half-hour […]
A chocolate-covered controversy: London Borough Market dealer Turnips gets sales boost from unlikely source
By Michael Lindemann Medill Reports LONDON – The main attraction at London’s Borough Market is a chocolate-smothering strawberry operation. Tabletops replete with plastic cups, each overflowing with about 12 to 15 ripe ones, are flanked by chocolate fountains, resembling sinks with ever-running faucets, as employees grab, douse and repeat. Visiting foodies gawk at the spectacle, […]
WATCH: ‘How legal is this?:’ A local mosaic artist uses his art to solve one of Chicago’s biggest problems — potholes
By Aniyha Jones Medill Reports Nearly 25 years ago, while on a trip to Pompeii, Jim Bachor discovered mosaics and his life hasn’t been the same since. After years of practice, he’s using his mosaic art to fill potholes around the Chicago area. Although the longevity of his artwork is threatened by the City of […]
WATCH: Chicago This Week — Season 4, Episode 2
Text by Mary Grace Grabill Medill Reports On Episode 2 of “Chicago This Week,” we report on the Chicago ShotSpotter program and find out why a councilmember wants to see Northwestern University play home football games in Evanston. We look back at the NCAA championship games. And Green City Market celebrates 25 years of bringing […]
High tea on a low budget: You don’t need to be royalty to sip a nice cuppa in London
By Megan Forrester Medill Reports LONDON — If you find pure bliss in choosing between English breakfast or chamomile, try a true pinkies-up high tea experience in London. I still dream about the moist cucumber finger sandwiches, floral china cups and marmalade jam at the Dorchester Hotel, where I once sipped on my parents’ dime. […]
Q&A: Meet Abbey Sadleir, an influencer reinventing the London’s ‘It-Girl’
By Megan Forrester Medill Reports LONDON — Every Tuesday, with hot-pink rollers in her honey blond hair and a black “mob wife” fur coat around her shoulders, Abbey Sadleir records a few new TikTok videos about her home in central London. During the other days of the week, when she hits up restaurants and vintage […]
WATCH: What’s brewing? Chicago, suburbs get dose of Yemeni coffee shops
By Sidra Dahhan Medill Reports Yemeni coffee shops, like Qahwah House in Lombard and Haraz Coffee House in Orland Park, have surged in popularity in the past couple of years — especially among young Muslims in America. It’s not just a Chicago phenomenon, it’s happening nationwide. Americans are being introduced to food culture in Yemen, […]
Tokyo’s innovative robot cafe paves path for inclusive employment
By Glendalys Valdes Medill Reports TOKYO — In Japan, only 19% of working-age people with disabilities are employed, according to a Bloomberg calculation, but Dawn Avatar Robot Cafe in Tokyo challenges those barriers by employing people who have physical disabilities and are otherwise unable to work. Ory Laboratory, the company that built and opened the […]
WATCH: Creative-writing nonprofit 826CHI helps students become published authors
By Taylor Anthony Medill Reports What may seem like a bookstore on the outside is actually more than that. 826CHI is the local chapter the 826 National organization, a nonprofit that offers creative writing workshops and field trips for students ages 6-18 with the goal of having students become published authors. Their works are then […]
Q&A: Petite fashion blogger chats about shopping secondhand, finding personal style
By Abigail Ali Medill Reports LONDON — In a recent Instagram reel, Katie Snooks, 35, teamed mom jeans with a cropped white tank, black heels and a plaid blazer. The 4-foot-11 beauty, dating and lifestyle blogger finished off the look with a messy bun, gold hoops and cat-eye sunglasses. Her caption reads, “I would never […]