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THE NEW LOST GENERATION: Part 3
Experts chime in on long- and short-term solutions to debt crisis
Student loans have been advertised as the sort of debt that will always yield a return on investment. However, as the housing bubble showed, “good debt” isn’t always as reliable as it ...
THE NEW LOST GENERATION: Part 2
History of student loans shows trends in all the worst directions
With a combination of rising tuition, a recession, high levels of unemployment and unprecedented loan debt, it’s hard to know for certain if the country is experiencing a transitory crisis or another ...
THE NEW LOST GENERATION: Part 1
Default, debt hint at trouble in long term for millennials
Jourdan Robles has done everything right.
Having graduated from Columbia in December 2010 with a degree in theatre, the 23-year-old newlywed is keeping up with payments when it comes to her student loans.
But ...
‘Occupy’ seeks home base
Local movement sorts through options in search of winter campground
Unlike their brethren in New York, Los Angeles and other nascent Occupy groups around the world, Chicago’s protesters don’t have a place to call home.
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Light on media blackout
Local mainstream media largely ignore national protest movement on LaSalle Street
Week two of the “Occupy Chicago” protests came and went, with steadily. growing crowds but wide fluctuations in daily attendance. During the first 14 days, somewhere between 30 and 300 people could ...
Onion in the city
Staff consolidates in Chicago; New York proven significantly less interesting
‘Outserve’ opens up
LGBT service members aren’t the only ones able to come out publicly with the long-awaited repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” A bi-monthly publisher, Outserve, formerly “the underground network of LGBT active ...
Remapping hits city streets
A person could live his or her whole life in one Chicago home and still have lived in several different wards.
Following the release of Census data in February and congressional redistricting that ...
Spring Break Lives
College chooses to shorten J-Term rather than cut March vacation for students
The verdict is in.
Spring break is saved, but students planning on taking J-Term courses in January will need to be open to changes due to the G-8 and NATO summits being held ...
G-8, NATO derail spring semester
Thanks to governments around the world, March spring break may be canceled or shortened.
It’s either that or a shorter J-term.
Because of the weeklong 38th G-8 Summit being held at McCormick Place, 2301 ...
‘Crowd in a barrel’
Even in a room full of taxpayers and city politicians, the point had trouble getting across.
The second of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s two scheduled town hall meetings last week, billed as a public ...
In perpetuity of ‘awesome’
‘Micro-funders’ accelerate, endorse creative projects in Chicago through new chapter
For anyone with dreams of starting a project, with little means of funding such an endeavor, a new Chicago group may be the missing link between idea and action.
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Painting for peace
Worldwide rally comes to Chicago, inspires diverse residents to create art
Without a rain cloud in sight, painted umbrellas could be seen high along the Chicago River. The symbolically decorated.umbrellas were part of a global movement in support of worldwide peace through creative ...
Tree taggers take to the streets
Arboretum deploys new approach to highlight Chicago’s urban forest
Staff and volunteers from the Morton Arboretum came in groups of four after sunset, fanning out in search of Chicago’s trees. By the time the night was over, nearly 500 had been ...
Taking back the bike lane
Riders, drivers to benefit from change in statewide crash report policy
Chicago’s power ordinance investigated
Attempt to reduce city’s coal plant emissions up for debate once again
Despite federal regulations imposed under the Clean Air Act, some Chicago politicians and environmental advocates find that more stringent enforcements are needed for the city’s particular air quality needs.
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