White Sox fans “so over” Cubs’ success
By Elan Kane It is not easy being a White Sox fan these days. Susan Padove is a self-described White Sox “lifer.” She has been attending SoxFest, the annual White Sox fan convention, for decades. Surrounded by fellow fans waiting for the opening ceremony of this year’s SoxFest last weekend, she did not hold back […]
Protesters rock O’Hare over immigration ban
By Shen Lu America feels like a “huge prison” to Hadia Zarzour now. Zarzour, 37, a Muslim Syrian who holds a green card and works as a mental health therapist in Chicago, can’t leave her host country at the moment, nor can she reunite with her family due to come next week, whom she hasn’t […]
Photo Gallery: Trashing city’s streets while exercising democracy
By Alaina Boukedes Chicago joined more than 600 cities worldwide in anti-Trump protests. The Women’s March on Chicago drew more than 250,000 protesters, the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The city’s sanitation workers were left with cleaning up the trash left behind from the sister march. Photo at top: Trucks from the Chicago Streets […]
Could zero-waste be the new recycling?
By Alaina Boukedes There’s a new route in conservation called zero-waste, which is a lifestyle that cuts out all concept of waste by utilizing reusable products instead of plastics or disposables. From singles in the city to families in the suburbs, Chicago residents see this new concept as the ultimate step toward sustainability. In 2012 […]
One Small Step: Aon Step Up Challenge Raises $300,000 for Lurie Children’s
By Kathleen McAuliffe “Ready, set, go!” With a smile, Mary Cate Lynch, a Beverly six-year-old with Apert Syndrome, sent participants scrambling up 80 flights of stairs, to the top of the Aon Center, as part of the company’s Aon Step Up for Kids challenge. More than 3000 people raised over $300,000 for the Family Services […]
Surging Northwestern breaks into AP Top 25
By Eric Burgher Northwestern is in uncharted territory. The Wildcats placed 25th in the Associated Press rankings Monday, the first time they have ever been ranked this late in the season. The Wildcats have only been ranked four other times in the school’s history and have not been in the AP poll this late in […]
Voices of the Women’s March on Washington
By Jane Bodmer While much of America was transfixed by last weekend’s pictures of women marching and chanting for human rights across the world, if you looked closer, you saw something perhaps even more extraordinary—men, millions of them, arm in arm and demanding equality.
Time to Begin: Rebuild Renews Optimism Among Sox Fans
By Kathleen McAuliffe The new guys typically do not attract as many cheers as the veterans. But when they were introduced before fans at the White Sox Fest on Fri. Jan 27, the team’s MLB.com top-30 prospects elicited thunderous applause that rivaled Jose Quintana and Todd Frazier. So, too, did General Manager Rich Hahn, the […]
Uptown luxury development faces challenges
By Holly Kane A $15.8 million TIF to fund a luxury housing development in Uptown will provide $5.7 million for low-income housing, but it is unclear where that housing will be. The 26-story Clarendon-Montrose development will feature 381 rental units and a 30,000-square-foot Treasure Island Foods grocery store with 5 percent affordable units. Construction is […]
Lincoln Park Knitters Join National Pussyhat Movement
By Miles Painter and Nicole Kelly Sister Arts Studios was one of many production hubs for the knitting of thousands of hats on display over the weekend during the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. Donna Palicka, owner of Sister Arts, has organized a squad of crafty ladies that usually meet at the store for a […]