High school students band together to protest their own district
By Kelan Lyons Before this school year, Denise Hernandez was quiet and reserved. Despite competing on her school’s water polo and swimming teams, and being the head coordinator of the robotic team, she wasn’t one to speak out or do anything that could affect her schoolwork. This year is different. “I recently realized I had […]
Black Friday on Magnificent Mile disrupted by protests
By Patrick Martin, Max Greenwood and Aryn Braun About 1,000 demonstrators protesting the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald at the hands of police officer Jason Van Dyke took over Chicago’s storied Magnificent Mile Friday, barring patrons from storefronts and forcing some businesses to close early on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. […]
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 sterilized to a degree that is unrepresentative of nature,” one anonymous skeptic told the FDA. “Labeling a product as ‘natural’ can be misleading to the layperson and should not be […]
Protesters block Mag Mile stores – ‘No justice, no shopping’ (Video)
By Jasmine Cen Additional reporting by Max Greenwood. Thousands of people packed Chicago’s Magnificent Mile on Black Friday to voice their outrage and mourning over for the death of Laquan McDonald. “We come down here to shut it down and you ain’t gonna shop today,” protesters sang. Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old black teenager, was shot 16 times […]
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 isn’t just the domain of one Big Ten football team. The Wildcats and Illini face off at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Soldier Field for the first time in the rivalry’s […]
Activists pressure city officials as London is released
By Aryn Braun, Thomas Vogel and Bian Elkhatib Video by Emiliana Molina and Brooke Rayford Activist groups gathered at City Hall Wednesday to galvanize support for coming weekend protests. They criticized City Council’s Black Caucus, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez for failing to respond effectively to the death of Laquan […]
Protesters take to streets after release of video depicting teen’s death
By Misha Euceph, Max Greenwood, Patrick Martin and Raquel Zaldivar More than 100 protesters took to the streets of Chicago on Tuesday, after the release of a video that shows a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times, ushering in the first of many expected demonstrations across the city. The protest started at […]
“16 shots” echoed as protestors took to Chicago’s streets (video)
By Jasmine Cen About two hundred protestors took over the streets in downtown Chicago after the release of police shooting video of Laquan McDonald. “Sixteen times”, the crowd chanted, as they started the march from Halsted and Roosevelt. The protest initially started with about a hundred participants. As the group marched north, more joined in. According […]
For immigrants, cultural values infuse the food at Thanksgiving
By Jenny Zhang (Additional reporting by Ashesha Mehrotra, Shanshan Wang and Yunfei Zhao) While families across the U.S. grapple with the usual culinary concerns – to brine or not to brine? Stuffing or dressing? Rolls or biscuits? – in preparation for Thanksgiving, a whole other slew of questions can be asked of American immigrant households […]
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 another team, that can’t be your only priority. Can it? According to Wendell Young, the general manager of the American Hockey League’s Chicago Wolves, who are in their third year […]