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Students walk to classes near Billy Graham Hall on the campus of Wheaton College, Sept. 21, 2023.

Wheaton College examined its racial history, but absence of hijab-wearing professor, LGBTQ rights questioned

March 12, 2024 at 11:55 a.m.

Ardent abolitionists founded Wheaton College in DuPage County just before the start of the Civil War, an era when calls for the immediate end of slavery and promotion of racial...

President Michael Schill speaks to incoming Northwestern University students and families on March Through the Arch day on Sept. 12, 2023.

Northwestern welcomes freshmen to campus after spending summer dealing with athletics program hazing scandal

September 13, 2023 at 7:24 a.m.

For Northwestern University alum Christopher Holliday, watching his alma mater's high-profile athletics department hazing scandal unfold has been challenging — but the recent turmoil didn't detract from his pride as...

The Highland Park Senior Center reopened in June 2021 in its new location at the Highland Park Country Club.

‘Poverty simulation’ at Highland Park Country Club canceled amid social media backlash over venue, which isn’t a private country club

September 7, 2023 at 7:15 p.m.

A "poverty simulation" that had been planned for this weekend at the Highland Park Country Club has been canceled amid social media backlash, with some commentors criticizing the event's "tone-deafness"...

Man tried to lure 3 children into car in Bridgeport, police say

September 4, 2023 at 8:15 p.m.

A man tried to lure three children into a car in the Bridgeport neighborhood Sunday, Chicago police said. The kids were playing on the sidewalk just after 8 a.m. in...

Dr. Igor J. Koralnik, co-director of Northwestern Medicine's Comprehensive COVID-19 Center, and fellow Dr. Natasha Choudhury discuss a patient with long-COVID symptoms in a workroom in the neurology suite at the Lavin Family Pavilion on Aug. 23, 2023.

Chicago COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations on the rise; Northwestern team warns of undiagnosed long-COVID consequences

August 27, 2023 at 5:17 p.m.

Chicago's COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to steadily rise after reaching pandemic lows earlier this summer. City health officials say the rise doesn't present an urgent threat to the...

Two side-by-side photos show Leighton Mount, the Northwestern University freshman who went missing after a hazing ritual at the school in 1921. His remains were found in 1923 at the Lake Street pier in Evanston.

Northwestern’s hazing history: Cases over 150 years show how hard it can be for colleges, institutions to extinguish these rituals

August 18, 2023 at 7:11 a.m.

Accusations of hazing on Northwestern University's football team have sent shock waves across the school this summer, fallout that continues as former players from a variety of sports come forward...

Kelli O'Laughlin, 14, was stabbed to death in October 2011 when she walked in on John Wilson Jr. burglarizing her family's home in suburban Chicago.

Killer of Indian Head Park teen Kelli O’Laughlin dies in prison. Victim’s grieving mom: ‘Appeals have ended and so have you.’

August 11, 2023 at 4:16 p.m.

A man who brutally murdered a west suburban girl during a botched burglary more than a decade ago has died in prison. Now, the victim's mother says her daughter can...

Ryan Field, home of the football program at Northwestern University, on July 11, 2023, in Evanston.

Ex-Northwestern cheerleader who filed suit alleging sexual exploitation calls school’s hazing response ‘a lot of empty platitudes’

August 8, 2023 at 7:24 a.m.

Allegations of hazing and bullying have thrown Northwestern University's athletic department into turmoil, spurring recent leadership shake-ups and pledges for reform. Yet claims of abusive behavior and inappropriate treatment of...

Carlo Conterato worked on the Manhattan Project as a machinist in the Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos. This photo circa 1945 is believed to be at the barracks at Los Alamos, New Mexico, according to family members.

Chicago’s ‘Oppenheimer’ ties: From one family’s letter to the Doomsday Clock, the Manhattan Project director’s legacy thrives here.

March 12, 2024 at 11:58 a.m.

The Oct. 1, 1945 letter is just three paragraphs typed on onion skin paper, under a curiously sparse letterhead containing only a four-digit P.O. Box located somewhere in Santa Fe....

Gov. J.B. Pritzker hugs Megan Jeyifo, executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, after he announced expanded reproductive health care protections, July 31, 2023, at University of Illinois at Chicago's Student Center West.

Illinois launches service to connect complex abortion cases with needed medical care

July 31, 2023 at 5:42 p.m.

A few weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 19-year-old woman traveled from Memphis to Chicago seeking an abortion. But medical providers at a local clinic...

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