Torrey Pines tells the forgotten narrative of the transgender coming-of-age experience
By Lauren Ball They filled the darkened, hushed room of The Nightingale, a small independent movie theater in Chicago’s Noble Square neighborhood. The audience, characterized by intensely dyed hair of neon pink and greens, Doc Martens, and nose rings, huddled close together while the film reel hummed. They had all arrived for the premiere of […]
Hmong Community Struggles to Face Future Without Losing Sight of Past
By Duke Omara WASAU, Wis. – Fifteen-year old Dylan Yang had stabbed and killed 13-year-old Isaiah Powell after the two became involved in a Facebook feud. But what seemed like a teenage gang killing last February struck some as being symbolic of something much more malignant. Dylan belongs to the Hmong, a community of war […]
Medill Electioncast: Celebrations and concessions
The Medill Reports team covers election night in Chicago. We have reports from campaign parties, analysis of Illinois races and reaction from voters across the political spectrum.
A core of Chinese Americans mobilizes for Trump, wins the day and looks to the future
By Jingzhe (Kelly) Wang Asian Americans were not among Donald Trump’s majority in Tuesday’s election. About three quarters of Asian American voters backed Hillary Clinton, according to the National Asian American Election Eve Poll released by America’s Voice the day after the election. Trump got only 19 percent of the Asian votes. Still, the Chinese American community had its […]
Explainer: How Hillary won the popular vote but lost the election
By Duke Omara In almost any other democracy, Hillary Clinton would be president today. She won the popular vote but still lost the election. So what happened? The Electoral College happened.
“Not my President,” protesters chant at Trump Tower
By Siyan (Jen) Huang [See related story of the night’s protest] Around 10,000 people gathered in front of the Trump Tower in Chicago to march down the Magnificent Mile and other downtown areas in protest of Donald Trump’s election as president. “Not my president” became the refrain of many protesters. Photo at top: Protesters at […]
Hurting from neglect: Election Day mattered in historic Indiana worker community
By Cloee Cooper Out of nine congressional districts in Indiana, two re-elected Democratic congressmen on Nov. 8. One of those was in the 1st Congressional District, where East Chicago’s historic community Marktown is located. Democratic Rep. Pete Visclosky who has been in office since 1985, was re-elected. Although Marktown voted Democratic, as it usually does, […]
It’s complicated: The unpredictability of predictions in elections
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran In the end, it came down to will she or won’t she? What seemed like a comfortable 81 percent chance of winning the election for Hillary Clinton just a couple of weeks ago, morphed into a tight race to the finish after FBI director James Comey announced a new investigation of a […]
A historic evening, but not what they imagined
By David Jordan It was a night of surprises. At the election watch party at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, the overwhelming favorite was Hillary Clinton, and students formed a long line to pose with a cardboard cut-out of the Democratic nominee. Early in the evening when the main dining hall was standing […]
Clinton’s defeat brings remorse
By Christen Gall Excitement shifted to somberness late in the evening at the campaign watch party for Hillary Clinton as it became clear in that Donald Trump will be the nation’s next president. And the mood has prevailed. “To all the women, and especially the young women who put their faith in this campaign and […]