Last week Chicagoland experienced the biggest snowstorm of the season, but most residents took the pelting in…
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Brazilian Film Series Mostra 3 Free Screenings, Special Reception
Carolina Posse, teacher in the Film and Video Department at Columbia College Chicago, is the…
During NATO, Panel at Erie House Urges Chicago to Act Locally
NATO officials and world leaders arrived in downtown Chicago Saturday. But across town local community…
Gay Wedding Industry Changes as Fight for Equality Goes Federal
A recent article in AdAge asks, “Is Gay Too Mainstream for Its Own Media?” Logo,…
Lakeview residents mixed on parking ban
After residents applauded a pilot parking ban for sections of Belmont Avenue and Halsted Street…
Chicago’s Vertical Farm Starts to Bloom
Walking down 47th Street in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, there’s an old meatpacking…
Police Trying Hard to Keep College Campus Areas Safe
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.
Poverty, Addiction Fuel Opium Cultivation in Afghanistan
A recent study from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found opium cultivation up 7 percent from 2010, and that the most insecure regions in Afghanistan were responsible for 95 percent of its opium cultivation.