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University of Chicago graduate student workers unionize

The vote to affiliate with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America follows a similar move by graduate students at Northwestern University.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 17, 2023

New program helps those who help victims of trauma

A free Chicago Caregivers Program is launching at Malcolm X College this summer.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 7, 2023

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife to invest $250 million in new Chicago research lab

The lab will harness brain power from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 2, 2023

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At 103, Sister Jean of Loyola University has a memoir: Shocking details? None. Gripes? Just one.

CHICAGO — Sister Jean of Loyola University, who stands atop Chicago’s A-list of celebrity clergy, waited until she was 103 to write her memoir. Clearly, she didn’t take the advice packed into its title: “Wake Up With Purpose! What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years,” out Feb. 28. Clearly,…

Chicago Tribune · Mar 1, 2023

Report highlights mental toll on Chicago residents who applied for guaranteed income program

About one in three applicants who applied for the city’s guaranteed income pilot program to receive $500 a month for a year reported issues with their mental health.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 27, 2023

With Illinois children in ‘crisis,’ Pritzker releases report designed to improve behavioral health care

Mental health problems for children were already on the rise when the pandemic hit. Illinois is, indeed, experiencing a youth mental health care crisis, the report says, with 40% of young people in Illinois who experienced major depressive episodes unable to receive mental health care.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 24, 2023

Kennedy-King College gets African American cookbooks

The great-great granddaughter of a man who bought 15 family members out of slavery donated more than 1,700 cookbooks to Kennedy-King College.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 23, 2023

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Commentary: University of North Carolina trustees’ plan using Chicago Principles of free speech falls short

The free speech wars are escalating at North Carolina’s flagship university.

Chicago Tribune · Feb 17, 2023

UChicago Medicine awaiting approval to begin construction on $815 million South Side cancer hospital

The seven-story facility would be built along East 57th Street, across from the emergency division. Officials expect 200,000 yearly outpatient visits, 5,000 inpatient stays.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 15, 2023

Help set the agenda for Chicago’s next mayor

The People’s Project is a partnership of the Sun-Times, WBEZ and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, to let Chicagoans pose questions to the candidates for mayor.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 5, 2023

The Sun-Times’ best photos of 2022

Our photographers covered everything from the mass shootings in Chicago and Highland Park to Chicagoans’ protesting the war in Ukraine and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Take a look at some of the top images they captured.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 23, 2022

A Book Recommendation from Me (and Many from My Colleagues)

A faculty tradition at the University of Chicago is recommending various books that we recently read and recommend. (Usually these are recent books, but this year my colleague Martha Nussbaum also recommended Moby Dick, remarking that "[i]t is definitely a book people need to read today, when we have hunted…

Reason · Dec 10, 2022

Singer Donny Hathaway inspired Hyde Park mural celebrating his music, promoting mental health

Painted in May, the work by artist Richard Wilson includes lyrics written by a Hathaway friend for him as a show of support as he struggled with mental illness.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 9, 2022

History made as first woman coach leads men's football team to national title

Julianne Sitch made history as she led the University of Chicago men's football team to a first NCAA Division III title over the weekend, becoming the first female coach to do so in the men's game.

Daily Mirror · Dec 6, 2022

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Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 5, 2022

The Field’s Sue lends a hand to paleontologists studying why T. Rex arms are so short

T. rex’s arm will be CT scanned Wednesday at the University of Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 1, 2022

Ex-Obama adviser Goolsbee to lead Chicago Fed

Austan Goolsbee, an economics professor at the University of Chicago who is a frequent commentator in opinion columns and television appearances, will succeed Charles Evans.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 29, 2022

U of C student who opposed class on “whiteness” should enroll in it

Take the class. Meet the professor. Challenge anything that fails the test of truth. Learn from what seems right or wrong.

Tribune News Service · Nov 23, 2022

An unlikely hub for big-tech challengers emerges in Utah

For decades, conservative economic thought on the virtues of the free market has reigned supreme in American jurisprudence, nourished by scholars at places such as the University of Chicago and George Mason University.

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Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 23, 2022

University course on ‘Problem of Whiteness’ shines light on free speech, hypocrisy

A University of Chicago student tweeted that a yet-to-be-taught course was ‘anti-white,’ the instructor was bombarded with hate mail and death threats.

Chicago Tribune · Nov 23, 2022

University of Chicago releases statement after class on ‘whiteness’ causes uproar on social media

The University of Chicago released a statement after a class called The Problem of Whiteness caused an uproar on social media earlier this month.

Chicago Tribune · Nov 22, 2022

Neighborhood pride competes with gentrification fears for residents coping with Obama Center traffic woes in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood

CHICAGO — When the road construction around the coming Obama Presidential Center kicked into a new phase last month, South Shore resident Jane Carson said she took the longer bus rides home in stride because she knew it was for the greater good: a grand community space dedicated to the…

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 19, 2022

‘Whiteness’ course triggers harassment, death threats against University of Chicago instructor

The teaching fellow defends the class despite delaying it until the spring for safety reasons, saying one student misrepresented it to stoke white grievance.

The Texas Tribune · Nov 17, 2022

UT System approves commitment to free speech, even if most students find that speech “offensive” or “immoral”

The Board of Regents adopted the Chicago Statement, a free speech policy created by the University of Chicago in 2014. More than 90 institutions have adopted the statement.

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2022

LOCALIZE IT: How abortion played a role in US elections

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Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 4, 2022

7 University of Chicago students say they were drugged at campus parties, one reported being sexually assaulted

The assault occurred after the student attended a party last week, according to a report filed with the school Tuesday. The student believed they were sexually assaulted in a residence hall after a drug was put into their drink at the party.

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