Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed a hefty tax hike for Chicago: $588 million to cover pensions and salaries of police and firefighters. If approved, property owners would be required to pay new garbage removal...

A controversial new mural went up in downtown Chicago earlier this month. It tells viewers: “Stop telling women to smile.” Brooklyn-based artist, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, created the piece to address...

Whether or not she intended to, County Clerk Kim Davis, from Rowan County, Kentucky has  simultaneously become the most hated and loved woman in the U.S. and a major political talking point on everyone’s...

When your country is in the hands of a civil war, your only option as a civilian is to leave as soon as possible. In the fifth year of civil war, citizens of Syria continue to retreat from their home...

Engineers are often misunderstood, but no one has been as misunderstood as 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed. On Monday, September 14, Mohamed was removed from his classroom, questioned, detained and processed...

One of the best things about Chicago is the number of world-class museums. If you went to grammar school here, your field trips were most likely to the Shedd Aquarium, the Field Museum and the Museum of...

When Steven's son, Dixon, was a boy, Steven would read to him every night – mostly “Hardy Boys” books – and because the boy was not tired and also wanted to know what would happen next, he would...

The fall semester is here! Can you feel it? Classes have been filled to capacity and waiting lists are on a “better luck next time” streak. At the start of the fall semester, all students have the...

One of the things that makes Chicago summers so special is the vast amount of things to do outside, like take in a baseball game, go to the beach or attend any of the numerous festivals the city has to...

An alien machine force has invaded NEIU. These machines were not there at the end of the summer semester. Where did they come from? What do they want? I'm referring, of course, to our new printer and...

What do vintage bottles of Pinot Grigio, a Claude Monet painting, and the vast majority of Michael Bay movies have in common? All require a refined palate to fully appreciate. A lifetime of crummy movies...

This past February I took a trip to Denver. My flight got in around 11:00 p.m., and I could not afford to rent a car for the trip, nor did I have a license to do so. With no friends around to pick me up,...