The Columbia Chronicle

Hamilton welcomes high schoolers to ‘room where it happens’

March 16, 2019

High school students from around Chicago were brought into “the room where it happens,” March 13 thanks to the third year of the Hamilton Education Program. Nearly 2,000 students and teachers gathered...

Dance Department students support each other

March 14, 2019

A student-run organization in Columbia's Dance Department has created an opportunity for dance students to serve as mentors for their peers. ...

Mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot visits local talk show

March 13, 2019

Mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot was a guest on First Tuesdays, a local monthly talk show at The Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia Ave., on March 5. First Tuesdays is hosted by the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky a...

Culture Chron-versations: Can art be separated from the artist?

March 13, 2019

The Chronicle staff members talk about self-made billionaires, separating art from the artist and dreadful working conditions. Trigger warning: there are mentions of sexual assault from 7:41–18:00 and...

Former student turns party into domestic violence fundraiser

March 7, 2019

Former business and entrepreneurship student Abigayle Devine turned a normal house party into a chance to raise money for local women's refuge center Sarah’s Circle. ...

Fat Tuesday: glazed with heritage

March 4, 2019

If Chicagoans want to take a dozen doughnuts to class or work Tuesday, they should start lining up now. Fat Tuesday, or “Paczki Day,” is March 5, and bakeries are busy preparing for this tasty Polish...

How to career while queer

March 1, 2019

Columbia Career Center, 618 S. Michigan Ave., held an event to address how to be safe and out at work. ...

Dog + Yoga = Doga

February 27, 2019

Wright-Way Rescue holds a yoga event with rescue dogs to emphasize adoption over shopping. ...

Black arts, culture celebrated at festival

February 22, 2019

A man sat proudly in front of his computer illustration of a black man wearing a "Punk" T-shirt; another student talks with admiration about the triumph of black theatre in the late 1960s; and others read...

Culture Chron-versations: Oscars Special

February 20, 2019

News Editor and Host Miranda Manier, Ads & Business Manager Micha Thurston and Multimedia Reporter Ethan Sandock talk about the host-less Oscars, the commercial break controversy, and give the...

Advocacy council gets ‘crafty’ for first fundraiser

February 19, 2019

Young women’s activist group Women Employed held a fundraiser with Chicago’s all-female Beastie Boys tribute band She’s Crafty to advance gender equity in the workplace. ...

Activist, journalist honored  with new street sign

February 15, 2019

Columbia's Congress Parkway building now has a new address following the historic street name change from Congress Parkway to Ida B. Wells Drive. The city voted to change the street name in summer 20...