High Inflation Sows Debate About New Fed Playbook for Tariffs
Fresh tariffs amid high inflation are making the Fed’s job uniquely difficult and feeding uncertainty about what to expect ...
UIC undergraduate resident advisers move to unionize: ‘These are workers’
In a move that could make them some of the first undergraduate student workers to unionize in Illinois, resident advisers at ...
Former University of Tennessee pharmacy student awarded $250K in 'WAP' social media suit
Kimberly Diei was awarded $250,000 from the Univeristy of Tennessee over a lawsuit in which she alleged her First Amendment ...
California's Wildfires Exposed Failings of the State's Leadership
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers are sure to lecture us again this session about the need to step up our efforts to ...
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To these Chicago Symphony players, here’s the sound of music in an era of crisis
Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Danny Jin warms up on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, before a concert. Jin will be among a small group of players performing Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of ...
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Artist Margaret Crowley notices the details and dichotomies of PT in 'Hazard' at University Galleries
While on maternity leave, Crowley attended physical therapy sessions with her mother after rotator cuff surgery. "Hazard" zooms in on details from the clinic, from the patient's perspective.
Three lessons from three great fires
As Los Angeles rebuilds after devastating wildfires, the histories of these three cities offer helpful guidance.
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Taxpayers are out more than $30 million on University of Illinois’ scuttled South Loop project
That's how much taxpayers had to pay when the University of Illinois pulled the plug on plans for its Discovery Partners ...
Art Institute's elaborately displayed tooth, thought to belong to John the Baptist, turned out not to
Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...
Rick Kogan: To bet or not to bet? A Chicago sportswriter talks of the dangers of gambling.
At lunchtime earlier this week, Lester Munson could be found at Wrigley Field, not on the field but nearby, standing in front ...
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A rare silent film with an all-Black cast screens at the Somerville Theatre
The 1926 film "The Flying Ace" will be screened with live musical accompaniment to mark Black History Month. The film is one ...
Crews in midair crash included 2nd-generation pilot and flight attendant ‘full of life’
Authorities say there were no survivors after the two aircraft plummeted into the Potomac River in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster since 2001. At least 28 bodies have been pulled from ...