The Buddhist Temple of Chicago, located in Uptown, is one of a few temples near DePaul that offers weekly services, meditation and movement practices. While not everyone who studies Buddhism fully adopts...
Malin Denton, Contributing Writer
• April 21, 2025
Green City Market Lincoln Park has reopened for its 25th season, supporting local businesses and farmers — and promoting sustainability.
The Saturday market, which features produce, baked goods and...
The concept of “wishcycling” has been circulating in the media lately. It’s the idea that wishing and hoping something will be recycled is causing more damage than throwing it in the trash.
Recycling...
Rose O’Keeffe, Content Managing Editor
• April 21, 2025
Matthew 25:40 instructs: “Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.”
According to this verse, it is not how powerful you are or what you believe that guarantees...
Public media is under attack.
Republican lawmakers, spearheaded by Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, are pushing to eliminate federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting...
Days before Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a video that the company was ending its third-party fact-checking program and moving to a “community notes”...
For years, the United Center has been surrounded by a vast stretch of asphalt. Now the Reinsdorf and Wirtz families, who respectively own the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks, hope to turn it into a mixed-use...
Thousands of people marched through the streets of the Loop Saturday, coordinating the biggest protest in Chicago since Donald Trump began his second term as president.
The April 5 protest...
Leaders in Chicago’s diverse performing arts community are worried about the Trump administration’s push to control the country's cultural narrative and the impact it could have on funding.
On Feb....
Maman Zari is abuzz. Waiters flit from table to table as the room rings with laughter, conversation and the sound of clinking glasses. In the warm light of the Albany Park restaurant, guests sit in front...
In the six weeks since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have been working fast to scale back government spending by firing federal...
In his farewell address to the nation, former President Joe Biden said, “Today an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that threatens our entire democracy.”
Was...
