Medill Reports: The Audio Show, Episode 3
Medill Reports’ audio producers and reporters cover topics ranging from business to science, entertainment to public affairs, sports, technology and more. In light of the
Lookingglass Theater shares a treasure with classic Treasure Island
By Alexandra Garfield Set sail with the Lookingglass Theater for the best stage production of Treasure Island you may ever see. The swashbuckling adventure and
FDA asks you what natural should mean on food labels
By Kierra Gray “If taken in literal terms, very few products offered in a grocery store are ‘natural.’ Most products are highly processed, packages, and
Northwestern, Illinois battle for Chicago at Soldier Field
By Jordan Ray For Northwestern, it’s a chance to get one step closer to making program history. For Illinois, it’s a chance to prove Chicago
Chicago Wolves: The farm team that reaps what it sows
By Nick Zazulia Any sports team wants to win, but when you are a minor league team with a developmental deal to season prospects for
35 years before Missouri, Northwestern athletes pushed for racial equality
By Shane Monaghan Thirty-five years ago, in the basement of football player Ben Butler’s house on the South Side of Chicago, a plan was cemented
Close, but no bylaw: IHSA commission shoots down cheerleading proposals
By Maddie Lee Two controversial proposals, meant to prevent cheating in competitive cheerleading by placing restrictions on sideline cheerleading, hit a wall Monday in the Illinois High
Brother Rice’s all-star alum hopes to follow in coach’s footsteps
By Brooke Rayford The first attempt to bring back a star alumnus was unsuccessful. For two seasons, Rick Harrigan led Brother Rice’s boys’ basketball team
U.S. consumer confidence took a hit in November
By Eve Fan Consumer confidence in the U.S. declined unexpectedly in November to the lowest level in a year, as Americans became gloomier about jobs and the
DePue continues 20-year struggle to cleanup toxic pollution
By Kevin Stark Pollution can happen in an instant – a spill, an explosion, a malfunction. But cleanup can take years, adding continuing emotional toll
You Can’t Take It With You, and you may not want to
By Alexandra Garfield You Can’t Take It With You takes us back to a depression-era classic that feels all too relevant today. The show centers
mRelief uses technology to help Chicago’s needy
By Eve Fan Rose Afriyie still remembers the day she spent more than two hours waiting outside a community service center on the South Side