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Another Bloody Weekend Puts Chicago in Trump’s Crosshairs; ICE Raid Now Underway

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on September 08, 2025 25 Comments

"Excuse me, do you know how many people were killed in Chicago last weekend? Eight. You know how many people were killed in Chicago the week before? Seven. ...

Report: Northwestern U Contract With Qatar Forbids School From Criticizing Regime

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 07, 2025 6 Comments

"shall be subject to the applicable laws and regulations of the State of Qatar, and shall respect the cultural, religious and social customs of the State of Qatar"...

Pritzker: Trump ‘Seems a Little Obsessed With Me’

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on September 06, 2025 24 Comments

Pritzker's outrageously tone deaf remarks came just one week after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said the exact same thing when the two locked horns over cleaning up Baltimore....

President of Northwestern U Resigns Amid Antisemitism Controversy

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 06, 2025 1 Comment

"Schill has twice testified before Congress on anti-Semitism, including during a closed-door session in August."...

Scarborough Says IL Gov. Pritzker Should Work With President Trump on Crime

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 03, 2025 16 Comments

"I think he should pick up the phone, call the president"...

Chicago Labor Day Weekend: At Least 7 Dead, 52 Wounded in Shootings

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 02, 2025 20 Comments

President Donald Trump reiterated his plan to send in the National Guard....

Chicago Carjacking, Assault Victim Rebukes Trump: Stay Out, ‘No Red Hats Here’

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on August 24, 2025 57 Comments

"Screenshotting this to show my children what a dumba** looks like 😂."...

Trump Might Crack Down on Chicago, New York City After D.C.

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 22, 2025 25 Comments

"Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we'll straighten that one out...

U Chicago Freezing PhD Admissions for Multiple Humanities Programs

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 16, 2025 7 Comments

"UChicago, which faces debt issues, has become yet another example of well-known universities freezing or scaling back Ph.D. admissions and programs amid financial pressures and other factors."...

Northwestern Faculty Group Doesn’t Want School to Accept Trump Administration Funds

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 11, 2025 10 Comments

“The way forward is to not give in to the lawlessness of the Trump administration — it is to stand up for American institutions of higher education”...

U Chicago Investigates Prof Who Called School ‘Evil’ at Socialism Conference

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 03, 2025 2 Comments

"I love my life at the University of Chicago–my colleagues, my scholarship, and above all my students"...

Beloved Cub Ryne Sandberg Passes Away at 65

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 29, 2025 7 Comments

Ryne Sandberg was more than a baseball player....

Northwestern U Cuts Staff and Halts Hiring Amid Federal Funding Freeze

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 24, 2025 2 Comments

"Like a number of our peer universities, we have now reached a moment when the university must take a series of cost-cutting measures"...

Rush University Medical Center Scales Back ‘Gender Affirming Care’ for Minors

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 23, 2025 1 Comment

“Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice.”...

Illegal Immigrant Released After Decapitation Allegations — ICE Recaptures

Posted by Ben Smith on July 20, 2025 16 Comments

"It is absolutely repulsive this monster walked free on Illinois’ streets after allegedly committing such a heinous crime."...

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Illinois Keeps Hemorrhaging Young People

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 04, 2025 33 Comments

"A dwindling youth population means shrinking potential — not just economically, but in civic energy, creativity and community life. That’s bad news for a state that depends on young people to power its workforce and its future."...

Northwestern U. Announces Hiring Freeze and Cost-Cutting Measures

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 11, 2025 3 Comments

"A faculty and staff hiring freeze and reductions to the permanent administrative and academic budgets"...

Northwestern SJP Pamphlet Urges Students to ‘Destroy Amerika’

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 31, 2025 16 Comments

“A message to the student intifada: Let us not dialogue with our persecutors”...

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