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Isabel Funk

A demonstrator is arrested Saturday by Chicago police officers as they cleared an encampment set up for several hours by students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to protest the Israel-Hamas war
Education
Pro-Palestinian camps remain at Chicago-area campuses
By Sophie Sherry , Violet Miller , and 1 more
 
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Education
University of Chicago students set up pro-Palestinian encampment on campus as protests spread
By Isabel Funk  and Jessica Ma
 
University of Chicago students, faculty members and their supporters protest and march around the South Side campus.
Education
Hundreds joined pro-Palestinian protests at Chicago universities
By Violet Miller , Isabel Funk , and 1 more
 
Northwestern students set up tents on campus to protest the war in Gaza.
Education
Northwestern students set up protest encampment, claim university censorship of pro-Palestinian speech
By Isabel Funk
 
A man carries grocery bags
Dom's Kitchen and Foxtrot abruptly shutter stores, months after specialty grocers merged
By Isabel Funk  and Abby Miller
 
sign saying "No Parking 3 AM-7AM Dec 1-April 1 or when snow is over 2 inches"
Environment & Public Health
Chicago’s winter overnight parking ban returns Friday
By Isabel Funk
 
Fred Hampton Jr. speaks during a rally in Civic Center Park in downtown Kenosha, six days after Jacob Blake was shot in his back by a police officer in the Wisconsin city, on Aug. 29, 2020.
Arts & Culture
Black Panthers’ legacy, image at issue in feud over historic sites
By Isabel Funk
 
fire department and police in front of Howard CTA station
Dozens injured, including 3 critically, in CTA train crash
By Isabel Funk  and Sophie Sherry
 
Jordan Johnson-Wojnicki, who works in accounting, has found artificial intelligence to be a great help.
Arts & Culture
Young workers grapple with the future of AI, worry about being replaced by technology
By Isabel Funk
 
United Airlines is reintroducing a boarding plan that makes passengers with aisles seats among the last to sit down.
Arts & Culture
United Airlines' new boarding plan boards passengers from window to aisle
By Isabel Funk
 
Judith Raanan, 59, and her daughter Natalie, 17.
Politics
‘It’s a miracle’: Evanston mom and daughter held hostage by Hamas released after almost two weeks
By Kaitlin Washburn , Mitchell Armentrout , and 2 more
 
The Riviera Theatre in Uptown, built in 1918 at a cost of more than $500,000, is one of Open House Chicago’s sites this weekend.
Arts & Culture
Open House Chicago returns with new sites, neighborhood focus
By Isabel Funk
 
A letter announcing the Signature Room’s closing was taped to the doors of the elevator lobby at the former John Hancock Center.
Arts & Culture
The Signature Room abruptly closes after 30 years due to ‘severe economic hardship’
By Kaitlin Washburn  and Isabel Funk