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Phyllis Cha

General Assignment Fellow
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Art
Chicago's Millennium Park has become a gravity-defying art gallery
Experiencing a new augmented reality art installation in the park requires a mobile phone — and extra patience.
By Phyllis Cha
 
Tomatoes seen in the hands of a Dulce Cedillo in Chicago
Food & Drink
Chicago farmers markets 2024: A guide for city and suburbs
WBEZ’s annual list of 80-plus markets across the metro Chicago area, including this season’s programming and available prepared food offerings.
By Phyllis Cha
 
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LGBTQ+
Chicago pride month 2024: Your guide to 50+ events in June
From booze cruises to comedy nights, here’s a veritable parade of events to celebrate pride month.
By Phyllis Cha
 
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Arts & Culture
Take a Chicago indie bookstore crawl with our transit-friendly guide
By Phyllis Cha  and Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
 
Fans wait to enter outside Guaranteed Rate Field on the White Sox opening day on April 3, 2023.
From new players to a new menu, your guide to Guaranteed Rate Field for the 2024 season
By Phyllis Cha  and Courtney Kueppers
 
Wrigley Field 2023, people gather around Wrigley Field
From a new manager to a new menu, your guide to Wrigley Field for the 2024 season
By Phyllis Cha  and Courtney Kueppers
 
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Politics
Flight attendants picket outside O’Hare, joining thousands at airports across the country
By Phyllis Cha
 
Chicago Teachers Union members picket outside Instituto Health Science Career Academy in Little Village on Tuesday.
Education
Teachers at Instituto charter schools go on strike: ‘We will be here every day until we get a contract’
By Phyllis Cha
 
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Arts & Culture
Route 66 was ‘a microcosm of America.’ Now, preservationists want to collect its stories.
By Phyllis Cha
 
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital located at 225 East Chicago Avenue in the Gold Coast neighborhood, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022.
Environment & Public Health
Lurie Children’s Hospital takes systems offline, investigates ‘cybersecurity matter’
By Phyllis Cha
 
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Education
CPS students walk out to support City Council’s Gaza cease-fire resolution
By Nader Issa , Phyllis Cha , and 1 more
 
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Arts & Culture
How to tip Chicago service workers the right way this holiday season
By Phyllis Cha
 
Alionna Murphy holds Galaxy as he is fitted during a collar and leash giveaway by the Animal Care & Control, held at the POPCourts! Community Plaza in the Austin neighborhood in late October.
Race, Class & Communities
Dog bites hit South and West Sides hardest — areas that lack dog parks, pet shops, other resources
By Phyllis Cha
 
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A record number of Thanksgiving travelers are expected at O’Hare and Midway
By Phyllis Cha
 
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Environment & Public Health
Howard Brown health care workers kick off two-day strike for better pay, benefits
By Phyllis Cha
 
A fire that raged through the Iroquois Theatre in 1903, where the Nederlander Theatre now stands, killed 602 people, according to Sun-Times archives.
Arts & Culture
Downtown Chicago theater named one of the most haunted places in the world by Condé Nast
By Phyllis Cha
 
Chicago announced its first city-wide composting program Monday, with 15 drop-off locations for residents to help make the city greener, according to a news release.
Environment & Public Health
Chicago announces first city-run composting program with 15 drop-off sites
By Phyllis Cha
 
Rina Foygel Barber, a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago, was awarded a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship.
Arts & Culture
University of Chicago statistics professor awarded MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’
By Phyllis Cha