LISTEN: Inside a viral facelift: The Guadalajara plastic surgery journey
By Emma Urdangen, Kaitlyn Luckoff and Payton Turkeltaub Medill Reports Americans are traveling to Guadalajara, Mexico, for facelifts that cost a fraction of U.S. prices
The Bumble burnout: As dating app enthusiasm dims, industry scrambles to prove digital matching can still deliver meaningful connections
By Emma Urdangen Medill Reports Walking out of a Washington, D.C., dive bar after her fifth terrible app-date of the month, 23-year-old Carly HoganBruen knew
Asian supermarkets in Chicago serve as community hubs. Now they’re bracing for effects of tariffs.
By Alyssa Rola Medill Reports Every time she gets sick, Wanmin Zhang habitually looks for her personal cure: her parents’ home-cooked Chinese meals. The 28-year-old
Build-A-Bear’s 10-year turnaround: How the company quietly became one of the world’s top specialty retailers
By Payton Turkeltaub Medill Reports From the day the first Build-A-Bear Workshop store opened in the Saint Louis Galleria Mall in 1997 to a line
PHOTOS: ‘More than a sport’: Irish Gaelic games grow, build community in Chicago
By Tom O’Connor Medill Reports Far from Ireland, Gaelic games are thriving in Chicago even as the number of U.S. residents born in Ireland fell
E.l.f. Beauty, Rhode show impact of celebrity association on brand’s stock, company’s trajectory
By Bianca Javate Medill Reports When E.l.f. Beauty announced May 29 it would acquire Hailey Bieber’s skin care line Rhode for $1 billion, its stock
In the Zooniverse, AI can’t take the citizen out of citizen science
By Sara Cooper Medill Reports Dan Caselden had little interest in astronomy before he became an expert in identifying undiscovered celestial bodies. Scrolling through social
At 65, The Second City tries to practice what it teaches
Yes, the funny business that launched Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and Tim Meadows challenges power onstage. And today, the comedy theater is striving to reflect
Chicago’s Rohingya Cultural Center rethinks adult education
By Khaleel Rahman Medill Reports Chicago’s Rohingya Cultural Center is taking a unique approach to English as a second language (ESL) classes by tailoring courses
WATCH: Dubai chocolate trend inspires local Bliss Bowls innovation
By Amanda Pirkowski and Kate Wunderlich Medill Reports Dubai chocolate, the new indulgence and dessert of the moment, can be enjoyed in ways other than
As new Illinois law looms on third party restaurant reservation platforms, diners weigh if Hogsalt restaurants are worth hype — or price
By Kaitlyn Luckoff Medill Reports If you set an alarm for 9 a.m. 21 days in advance, log onto Resy and cross your fingers, like
Digging into Ireland’s Ice Age legacy could improve sea level predictions
By Cathy Ching Medill Reports IRELAND – Ireland and much of Northern Europe was once buried under a large ice sheet tens of thousands of