COVID-19: Stories from across America
By Dave Peck Medill Reports In this May 10-17 special report, COVID-19: Stories from across America, Medill Reports looks at how the global pandemic is affecting local businesses, athletes, and public policy across the country. From Texas to Michigan, Connecticut to Florida, and everywhere in between, find out how the coronavirus is changing the way […]
For North Texas, 2019-20 basketball will forever be a lost season
Joshua Skinner Medill Reports They were arguably the best basketball team in North Texas history. After starting the season 2-5, the Mean Green stormed to a 14-4 conference record and the No. 1 overall seed in the Conference USA tournament. At the very least, they were guaranteed a spot in the NIT. At best, they’d […]
Travelers struggle to get refunds after canceling flights amid coronavirus pandemic
By Henry Ren Medill Reports Genie Schwartz canceled her late April flight from West Haven, Connecticut, to Wilmington, North Carolina, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Connecticut residents to eliminate non-essential travels in late March. She then called American Airlines to refund her $400 airfare, only to be offered a travel voucher […]
COVID-19: Stories From Across America
By Evan Brooks Medill Reports In this May 3-10 special report, COVID-19: Stories from across America, Medill Reports looks at how the global pandemic is affecting businesses, graduates, festivals, and students in the United States. We take you on a journey across the country from Maryland to Arizona as we examine the world and how […]
High school seniors ‘devastated’ with graduation cancellation
By Jenny Ly Medill Reports For seniors Brina Taylor and Brejona Hutchinson, June 10, 2020 was marked in their calendars as one of the best days of their lives. The two students at George Westinghouse College Prep, located in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, were devastated to learn that […]
Festival canceled for first time since WWII
By Allegra Zamore Medill Reports The annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival takes place each Spring in Winchester, Virginia. Due to COVID-19, this was the first year since WWII that the festival was canceled. That didn’t stop local community members from celebrating from a distance. Photo at top: Winchester residents paint their property to celebrate Apple […]
A tale of two cities: How Beaufort, SC, and Evanston, IL, are meeting the threats of climate change
By Anne Snabes Medill Reports Laura Norris’ local beach in Evanston is shrinking. On leap day, the winter-scrubbed sand stood only a few feet wide on some areas of the beach. The lake sparkled under the late winter sun and snow mounded on the shoreline. Norris guessed that Lee Street Beach is about a third […]
Guided through stress: Chicago intervention program mentors youth past poverty-related trauma
By Zack Fishman Medill Reports On a sunny afternoon in early March, two graduate students, Elizabeth Sargent and Diana Chaidez, supervise an after-school program for 10 students in the school library at Wentworth Elementary School, located on Chicago’s Southwest Side in Englewood. The sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders sit at round tables, accompanied by a similar […]
COVID-19: Stories from across America
By Yousef Nasser Medill Reports In this April 26-May 2 special report, “COVID-19: Stories from across America,” Medill Reports looks at how the global pandemic is affecting businesses, universities, athletes, and travel in the United States. From Virginia to Texas, New England to Arizona, to highways spanning the country, see how the coronavirus is changing […]
‘Run as long as you can until you can’t’: The motivation behind ultrarunning
By Caroline Kurdej Medill Reports Ultrarunner Andrea Kooiman was never a superstar cross-country runner in high school. “I really only joined because there was a dude on the team I liked,” she said with a giggle. Yet since her high school days, Kooiman has competed in 150+ ultramarathons and marathons. Now, at 44, she’s crossed […]
