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Social Media Helps Uptown Residents Stay Safe, Knowledgeable

Chicago Talks, February 14, 2012

In Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, Donte Gilliam was walking to his job with the CTA when…

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Change to Spare? Change a Life: Being Homeless in Chicago

Chicago Talks, February 10, 2012

via YouTube Craig Key, 50, is homeless. He grew up on Chicago’s south side in…

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Zine-Making Workshop for DIY Columbia Students

Chicago Talks, January 29, 2012

Interested in making zines? Not quite sure what they are? Do you love cookies? If…

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Exposing Urban Kids to the Arts

Chicago Talks, January 9, 2012

When Blair Holt, a 16-year-old South Side teen, was fatally wounded after shielding a classmate…

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Chicago Criminal Defense Attorney Motivated by a Sense of Justice

Chicago Talks, January 2, 2012

Looking at Leonard Goodman, you might not have a notion that he’s a member of…

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Few Cook County Colleges, Universities Following State’s Campus Security Act

Chicago Talks, December 22, 2011

This campus safety investigation won 3rd place in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 5…

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Police Trying Hard to Keep College Campus Areas Safe

Chicago Talks, November 28, 2011

After getting off the Red Line at 8 p.m. on Harrison and State Street, former Columbia College student Aaron Hopgood, 19, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and his friend, Derrick Holmes, 19, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were proceeding up the stairs to go home, when two men pulled them back down them.

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Prison Activist Talks Change With Columbia College Chicago

Chicago Talks, November 16, 2011

Gregory Koger, a prison paralegal, as well as a prison reform activist and former inmate who spent six years in an Illinois prison, spoke to Columbia College Chicago recently about unjust treatment of prisoners in California penitentiaries.

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Opinion

  • Chicago’s influential music scene doesn’t get the respect it deserves 
    by Zoey Hill-Hernandez
  • Lost in translation: ‘I would see everyone else writing while I just stared blankly at my paper’
    by Cynthia Alaniz
  • ‘It felt like something was gnawing at my heart’; Columbia student copes with illness of a lifetime
    by Morgan Bruner
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Arts and Culture

  • 23 years later, Mazzy Star’s masterpiece album still casts a spell
    by Triniti Waxman
  • Queer Chicago designer finds niche dressing drag performers
    by Seng Xiong
  • From dorm room to mainstage, Phat Dragon built a comedy cult following 
    by Ava Simone Forster
  • Great Ideas of Humanity exhibit showcases famous quotes made visual 
    by Sh'Mara Chism
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Feature

  • Hairstylist helps clients embrace their own beauty, rather than copy someone else’s 
  • Care for Real food pantry serves North Siders as need grows 
  • Cuddle Bunny: Where visitors can chill out with a furry friend 
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