Chad the Bird Rants and Raves at the Green Mill
By Brendan Hickey Actor Josh Zagoren opens up about about his original character “Chad the Bird,” a funny creature from Laguna Beach who is dumbfounded by the stupidity of mankind. [vimeo 167031692 w=474] A wacky Bird played by Josh Zagoren rants about popular culture in Chicago’s Green Mill Lounge. (Brendan Hickey/MEDILL)
Tom Perski: A visually impaired pioneer serving the blind at the Chicago Lighthouse
By Hannah Gebresilassie When Tom Perski turned 19 years old, he noticed something was off with his vision during a baseball practice. “I saw the ball go up in the air and then it disappeared completely and then reappeared again,” Perski says. Perski was later diagnosed with a rare case of Stargardt macular dystrophy, a […]
Robots and the human connection
By Patrick Martin “Robotics is definitely a big part of my life,” Kyle Granat said. He is a hardware engineer at Trossen Robotics in Downers Grove, just outside Chicago. The company sells kits for robotics enthusiasts. Granat was fascinated by a computer around the age of three. The person who first nurtured Granat’s love of […]
Fantasy and glass breathe life into art
By Iacopo Luzi Riverside is a small Cook County village where time seems to have stopped. Street lights powered by gas still line the sidewalks. A small business, that’s been around since 1948, still produces glass art. The studio’s brochure calls it a place where “miracles are done with everyday glass.” Higgins Glass celebrates it’s […]
Flying’s not just for the birds at this Chicago school
By Kat Lonsdorf A small slice of the circus is always in town in at Broadway Armory Park in Edgewater. The massive military-building-turned-public-rec-center is home to Trapeze School New York (TSNY) Chicago, a unique learning environment that teaches students to swing, twirl, and fly through the air. [vimeo 167200632 w=474] Apryl Schlueter performs at an […]
Chicago non-profit brightens new moms’ lives with candles
By Xiao Lyu The soy candles from Bright Endeavors are made with some special ingredients you can’t find in normal scented candles — the tenderness and determination of young moms. At the nonprofit organization’s pleasant-smelling manufacturing plant in West Garfield Park, new moms aged 16 to 24 learn hands-on skills of candle crafting as part […]
Wildcats softball rolls into NCAA Tournament
By Adam Rossow It was unconventional, but not unprecedented for Northwestern softball. The Wildcats received their third-straight at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament earlier this week after making a furious late season rally. They won 16 of their final 22 games and vaulted to a third-place finish in the Big Ten. [vimeo 167124526 w=474]
Solar powered food truck hits the streets of Chicago
By Caley Chelios Mobile solar powered pizza is on its way to the streets of Chicago. Marcello’s A Father and Son restaurant, one of Chicago’s oldest pizzarias, is bringing their famous pizzas to Chicago summer festivals and events. A Father and Son owner Billy Bauer and his son Zac created a solar powered food truck […]
Rogers Park restaurant has put politics front and center for 40 years
By Max Greenwood It was a Thursday night in mid-April, and Kathleen Dillon dragged tables around the Heartland Café, carefully arranging them to give a good view of a projector screen. It was less than an hour before the New York Democratic presidential debate between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and Dillon frantically prepared the […]
Medill Reports Newscast
By Hannah Gebresilassie Watch the Medill Reports News Update. This week our reporters talk about challenges graduate students face through the eyes of a Loyola University Chicago student. We see how more than 100 veterans experience a special send-off to Washington D.C. through the Honor Flight program. Finally, we get to hear from Reckless Records […]