Author: Living Legends
The letter encouraged students to speak with their departments about alternative ways of completing their degrees, including online learning. U. of I. declined to provide more details on which students were impacted out of privacy concerns, but said that they are “working directly with affected students to help them connect with appropriate resources and understand their options.” McSwiggan said the Office of International Affairs (OIA) identified the U. of C. terminations during an audit of SEVIS records. SEVIS, an online system maintained by the Department of Homeland Security, is used to monitor the records and information of international students on…
The lake, ancient and alluring, is the latest target for the active curiosity of that boosterish purveyor of history and civic pride known as Geoffrey Baer. Of Lake Michigan’s 1,638 miles of shoreline, only 26 of those are in the city, but they are the most lively, glamorous, crowded and disturbing miles of all, coming at us with Baer and his colleagues (primarily producer/writer Michael West) in “Touring Chicago’s Lakefront,” premiering at 7 p.m. April 14 on WTTW-Ch. 11, with all manner of web-extra embellishments. The familiar is, well, familiar, and so most viewers will recognize and know at least…
When River Kerstetter was asked about three years ago to help curate an exhibit at the Newberry Library about Native Americans and pop culture called “Native Pop!,” she said getting involved with the exhibit was a “no-brainer.” The artist, who is a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, had not only worked with archival materials before, but is a self-described nerd. “I play video games. I read comics. So, yeah, it was just like a perfect fit,” Kerstetter said. But for Kerstetter, working on the exhibit was more than just an opportunity to learn about different games and comics…
President Donald J. Trump’s administration froze $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern University, White House officials confirmed to the Tribune on Wednesday morning. A White House spokesman pointed to a social media post by Pat Ward, senior White House editorial producer at Fox News Channel, explaining the cuts. “The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations,” Ward wrote in his post on X, formerly known as Twitter. The Evanston-based research institution learned from media outlets on Tuesday that a “significant portion” of its federal funding would be frozen but had not officially…
WASHINGTON — Facing a global market meltdown, President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed down on his tariffs on most nations for 90 days, but raised his tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%. It was seemingly an attempt to narrow what had been an unprecedented trade war between the U.S. and most of the world to one between the U.S. and China. Global markets surged on the development, but the precise details of Trump’s plans to ease tariffs on non-China trade partners were not immediately clear. WASHINGTON — The global economy appeared to be in open rebellion against President…
For more than four decades, Rory Spears was a ubiquitous presence on Chicago sports radio, covering all kinds of professional sports as an on-air reporter and behind-the-scenes producer — with an extra emphasis on the sport about which he was most passionate, golf. “He worked hard and hustled to get many freelance sports gigs, covering every Chicago professional sports team in town,” said longtime Chicago-area sports broadcaster Steve Kashul, who hosts “The Golf Scene” TV show. “However, his real passion was golf, and over the past 10 years, no one covered the local golf scene as thoroughly or as well…
If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times: “Does anyone at the table have an allergy or dietary restriction?” It’s become so ubiquitous when eating out that it’s hard to remember a time when we weren’t asked. According to a report updated in April 2024 by Food Allergy & Research Education, a nonprofit organization supporting those affected by food allergies, approximately 33 million people in the U.S. have at least one food allergy, which is defined as “an adverse health effect resulting from a specific immune response that occurs reproducibly on exposure to a given food.” That…
Back in the 1990s, Mayor Richard M. Daley would ride around town looking for vacant lots and insisting weeds be pulled and wrought-iron fences installed. One can only imagine what Daley would have thought about the current situation near the corners of Clark and West Ontario streets, where the Rainforest Cafe building, a themed structure replete with fanciful foliage and toadstools, has sat empty since 2020, and the Hard Rock Cafe, which closed permanently on March 29 after 40 years in business, has now joined the neighborhood carnage. The monster guitar sign has disappeared over the last few days and,…
Who wants to be a cop in Chicago? Who gets to be a cop in Chicago? Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters last month that working toward long-standing goals to diversify the Chicago Police Department, the city has seen an increase in CPD applications from communities of color. Mayor Brandon Johnson looks on as police Superintendent Larry Snelling salutes and congratulates recruits during the Chicago Police Department’s recruit class graduation and promotion ceremony at Navy Pier on March 11, 2024. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) “We’re seeing positive results where we have a diverse workforce, our Police Department is becoming more and more…
The well-timed editorial “On childhood literacy, Illinois could learn from the Bayou State” (March 26) is something every teacher, principal and school superintendent should read. I’m the founder of a company that has been implementing science of reading programs for nearly two decades, and the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress results were deeply disappointing. Year after year, millions of children fall behind in reading, and the consequences are profound: reduced lifetime earnings, higher dropout rates, poor workforce readiness and increased economic inequality, reinforcing cycles of poverty and limited opportunity. The data paints a grim picture. But what makes this…