Murals donated to St. Francis de Sales High School make media center ‘alive again’
By: Rodricka Taylor Medill Reports St. Francis de Sales high school received a donation of the Black Lives Matter murals for the school’s library and media center and placed them on the second floor. Rabbi Michael Ben Yosef and artist Shannon Evans created the murals in October near Millennium Park to honor the anniversary of […]
Asian Americans fight racism and struggle to redefine their identity
By Ester Wells Medill Reports View this story as an Adobe Spark multimedia production. Russell Jeung stood in the checkout line at a sporting goods store in Alameda, California, and glanced over at his 16-year-old son Matthew standing beside him. It was mid-March in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and they were buying […]
Lack of internet connections deepen inequity in education and health care during COVID-19
By Liam Bohen-Meissner Medill Reports Access to virtual education and telehealth underscore the digital divide in Chicago and elsewhere exacerbated by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. When coupled with limited in-person activity, a lack of broadband internet potentially forces millions of students to fall behind in school and millions of people to forgo medical […]
Small businesses can require vaccination but few in Chicago do
By Jiang Li Medill Reports When Hannah Zimmerman went back to work at the JuiceRx in Streeterville as a barista last November, she had to prove that she had tested negative for COVID-19. Since then, JuiceRx has been an “extremely busy” store, almost back to its pre-pandemic numbers, she said. But so far, the juice […]
College stadiums sit empty across the nation
By Kayla McDermott Medill Reports College athletes across the nation are nervous that they may not have a season due to the COVID-19 pandemic similar to the class of 2020. Kayla McDermott is a video/broadcast student at Medill, you can follow her on Twitter @mcdermott_kayla.
As some Chicago Public Schools students return to the classroom for in-person learning, many families continue remote learning
By Diamond Palmer Medill Reports Parents like Cortney Ritsema, a mother of three, have become used to frequent interruptions throughout the day from their kids. For Ritsema, this means frequently shushing her pre-K twins when she’s on the phone. Currently she is a stay-at-home mother, but she was planning to return to the job as […]
How the 19th’s EIC grew a gender-focused newsroom
By Bryce Jones Medill Reports When Andrea Valdez stepped off of the flight that brought her to San Francisco in March 2017, the first thing she noticed was the overcast sky and the chill in the air – after spending most of her life in her native state of Texas, that wasn’t something she was […]
Nearly one year since Illinois locked down, vaccines are a light at the end of the tunnel
By Carlyn Kranking Medill Reports This weekend will mark one year since Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker locked down the state with a stay at home order on March 21, 2020. Now, more than 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the state, inoculating 11.68% of the population, and counting, according to […]
Logan Square resident replaces spray paint with snow to create street art around greater Chicago area
By Zack Shanus Medill Reports Eduardo Vea Keating makes the most of Chicago winters by creating street art from snow. He has been making the ephemeral pieces for over a decade. Zack Shanus is a video/broadcast reporter at Medill.
College gymnast faces reality of program’s final NCAA season
By Connor Groel Medill Reports There had been months of waiting. Over the summer of 2020, members of the University of Minnesota men’s gymnastics team had asked their athletic department repeatedly if there was any chance their program could be cut. They wanted to be prepared for the worst but received no straight answers. Then, […]