Venmo’s social mobile payments win the day with Millennials
By Taylor Hall On a recent weekend, South Loop resident Christina Rojas and a handful of her closest friends flew from Chicago to Las Vegas for a weekend trip. “Between all the cabs and food and drinks, I think I Venmo’d every ten minutes,” the 25-year-old University of Illinois at Chicago medical student said. “I […]
VIDEO: A Chicago employment organization offers paid internships
By Empriss Campbell According to the department of labor, Chicago has one of the highest unemployment rates for a large metropolitan area. For those who have never held a steady job or are homeless, finding work can be especially difficult. The Lakeview Employment Group was created to address that problem. The group gives people paid internships […]
VIDEO: Women in Sports
By Lukas J. Voss Women have increasingly been part of the sports world. Professional sports, college athletics and the media. All fields in which women have made long strides during the last decade. But there is plenty of room for improvement and it didn’t always come easy.
VIDEO: Men prone to eating disorders too
Ryan DeBlock, a former wrestler lost 25 pounds one year and nearly starved himself to death. As a survivor of an eating disorder, he speaks out about his experience that started during wrestling in high school. Although it was many years ago, he still faces difficulty dealing with old habits, like drinking enough water. As […]
Vacated buildings can leave tenants on brink of homelessness
By Stephanie Choporis A loud knocking woke Brandon Williams one night in late 2014 in his fourth floor apartment on South Shore Drive. “When people used to knock on my door there, I would know that it wasn’t my neighbor because she would usually call,” said Williams, 34. He typically would not answer but the […]
Not your typical poet-social activist-caretaker: Meet Ayinde Cartman
By Bethel Habte The Fueling Station A passing thunderstorm left tiny puddles in the courtyard entrance of Canvas, an art and performance studio in Wicker Park. The rain’s clearing up and a crowd’s trickling in. Every second Monday of the month the space hosts Gala, an open mic, where Ayinde Cartman refuels. “Everything else is […]
The road to new tuberculosis antibiotic development in our backyard
by Elise Steinberger While news of a case of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis in Chicago makes its way across the nation, we ask ourselves, where do we go from here? When modern medicine can’t work its magic, for a moment we remain disoriented. Germs are everywhere. While we’ve all likely heard about the problem of drug-resistant […]
VIDEO: The Art of Kendo
By Yining Zhou Kendo is Japanese sword fighting. It requires not only physical strength but also mental stillness. John Condon is a four-dan kendoka and the president of Chicago Kendo Dojo. His organization offers Chicagoans a place to learn about kendo and practice.
VIDEO: 87-year-old survivor relives holocaust memories to educate future generations
By Mathias Meier Magda Brown travels trough the entire country to tell her tragic story as a holocaust survivor. With clockwork precision she remembers every detail and relives it with shocking accuracy. And even though she says it hurts her deeply, she does it to rest assure that future generations won’t repeat past mistakes.
VIDEO: Urban explorer documents the abandoned Damen silos
By Evan Garcia Rick Drew remembers the first time he explored an abandoned building. As a child on a family vacation in Scotland, he spent hours searching through a deserted yarn factory. “It was a real thrill,” Drew said. “I always remembered that, although I didn’t start exploring again until many years later.”