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Throughout the pandemic, numerous staff members have written about COVID-19s devastating impact on small businesses.

[Photo] A year for the books: The Chronicle looks back on 2020

December 7, 2020
My dad, Jim Anderson, is the majority owner and sole operator of Portland Provisions, a Portland, Maine-based food supply company that opened in 2015. The business has no physical location but shares a cooler with Pats Meat Market, a local butcher shop co-owned by a Portland Provisions partner.

Column: Family and business in the age of the coronavirus—love and time lost

April 29, 2020
Freshman arts management major Emma Ivy finds time to make music, work at Shop Columbia and create her own earring business while taking 18 course credits.

[Photo] DIY jobs: Pandemic fails to stop students’ drive to create side hustles

April 20, 2020
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[Photo] Global pandemic creates a world of problems for Columbia’s international community

March 25, 2020
Junior design management major Imani Kutti operates a one-woman fashion line, incorporating aspects of her African heritage.

[Video] Student brings African heritage to the Chicago fashion scene

March 23, 2020
Two Dwight residents use a bin to move their belongings out of the dorm building, which will close due to the coronavirus pandemic.

[Photo] ‘I don’t feel like I have a home anymore’: Students scramble after dorms closed

March 21, 2020
Students pack up their belongings to leave the Dwight dorm building, Saturday, March 14.

[Photo] BREAKING: Campus buildings, dorms to close; Columbia community member diagnosed with coronavirus

March 18, 2020
Volunteer election judges at Jones College Prep, 700 S State St., wear gloves and masks to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

[Photo] Joe Biden wins Illinois primary; some Illinoisans go to polls despite coronavirus fears

March 17, 2020
Febreezja Couch won the 2019 pageant, scoring the association more than $4,000, which helped the Red Liners fund travel to tournaments across North America.

Chicago Gay Hockey Association’s second drag beauty pageant scores big

March 14, 2020
Chicago chapter members of the Future Farmers of America, an organization that prepares youth across the U.S. for careers promoting agriculture, sit front and center at the panel.

[Photo] From campus to the city: College students can make or break food waste epidemic

March 9, 2020
The Wave Film Festival hosted 15 local, national and international organizations at tables in the lobby outside Film Row Cinema, 1104 South Wabash Ave.

The first annual Wave Film Festival makes a splash at Columbia

March 7, 2020
(Right) Jill Biden, wife of former Vice President Joe Biden, joins Mayor Lori Lightfoot (center) and Sen. Dick Durbin (left) as they endorse Joe Biden for president.

[Photo] Lightfoot and Durbin endorse Biden, opinion split among faculty, students

March 6, 2020
Posters emphasizing the importance of washing one’s hands to combat the coronavirus have been put up in various locations across campus.

[Photo] Columbia joins colleges preparing for the worst in face of coronavirus outbreak

March 6, 2020
Tori Lee is the exhibit developer who brought A Natural Talent: The Taxidermy of Carl Cotton to the Field Museum.

[Photo] Field Museum honors museum’s first African American taxidermist Carl Cotton

February 19, 2020
During his presentation, held at 600 S. Michigan Ave., nine-time Emmy award-winning Director Don Roy King questions the importance of awards, saying the judges used to spend an entire weekend watching every nominated show vote for whatever interests them rather than which show had the best direction.

[Photo] Director Don Roy King on the day he became a jerk and the legacy of SNL

February 19, 2020
Quavo, one of the three Migos, helps give away free Adidas YZY QNTM shoes from the passenger seat of a Russian Sherp ATV.

[Photo] Chicago ‘YZY QNTM’ giveaway draws hundreds, creates chaos

February 18, 2020
Participants make their way through the last leg of the race before reaching the corner of West Eddy Street and North Clark Street, the location of the finish line.

[Photo] Ready, set, undress: Hundreds run in their undies for charity

February 11, 2020
Owen Clarke, friendship bracelet.

The tokens they carry

February 8, 2020
Mark Szafaran holds Woodstock Willie, who has played a part in the towns Groundhog Day celebration since the former mayor, Bill Anderson, requested a groundhog be present in 1997, the same year the groundhog costume was introduced.

‘That’s right, woodchuck chuckers—it’s Groundhog Day’

February 3, 2020
Incumbent Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) speaks with supporters after the candidate forum for Illinoiss 1st Congressional District, hosted by the First Unitarian Church of Chicago, Thursday, Jan. 23.

[Photo] Candidates tackle health care, the environment and the economy in 1st Congressional District

January 30, 2020
(From left) WBEZ’s Jerome McDonnell; Donald Wuebbles, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Illinois; and Troy Peters from Audubon speak to the City Club of Chicago about ways to lower the carbon footprint.

[Photo] ‘We ain’t got it’: Panelists discuss Chicago’s need for aggressive environmental protection

January 31, 2020
In 2016, McCray graduated Columbia with bachelors degree in fashion design.

[Photo] Project Runway contestant Delvin McCray has done sew much after his time at Columbia

January 28, 2020
Opinion: It is OK to pause the hustle

Opinion: It is OK to pause the hustle

January 25, 2020
Andy Warhol, from A to B and back again was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art of New York and includes more than 400 pieces of Warhol’s artwork.

[Photo] The contradictions of Warhol: more than pop and color

January 22, 2020
Thousands of marchers make their way down Adams Street during the Chicago Womens March, Saturday, Jan. 18.

Chicago’s fourth Women’s March, in photos

January 19, 2020
March for Life Chicago claims to be the largest pro-life event in the Midwest. Over 8,000 were in attendance during 2019s march.

Chicago’s March for Life attracts anti-abortion supporters, counter-protesters and white nationalists

January 15, 2020
Organizers from My Block, My Hood, My City hand out boxes of decorations to volunteers in Tuley Park, 501 E. 90th Place, Sunday, Dec. 8.

Volunteers deck the halls of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive

December 9, 2019
Students enter flu season with little assistance from college

Students enter flu season with little assistance from college

December 5, 2019
Civil rights activist Angela Davis gives her keynote speech.

Angela Davis helps kick off refounding of organization born from her 1970 arrest

November 27, 2019
Pivot Point Academy does a guests hair and makeup before the MasQUEERade begins.

MasQUEERade Ball gives youth a space to celebrate LGBTQ+ culture

November 20, 2019
Supporters surround Alejandra Cano after her immigration check-in, Thursday, Nov. 14.

Immigration officials decide Alejandra Cano must return for a second check-in

November 15, 2019
El Chapo holds back his jacket to reveal his Detroit pride while competing in the partial beard freestyle category.

Competitors itching to win the beard and moustache competition

November 11, 2019
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[Photo] Students start grassroots effort to provide a student newspaper to UIC

November 10, 2019
Brian Gybboney trades the classic red and black Harley Quinn for a glittering pink and white version, Oct. 31.

Boystown ends October with a Halloween extravaganza

November 1, 2019
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