The 1995 Chicago heat wave
The temperature soared to 106 degrees at Midway Airport on this date, a Thursday, setting a record for Chicago. The temperature is officially listed as 104 degrees, as measured at...
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Bushman comes to Chicago
In 1930, most African animals were still exotic creatures from a little-known land. When an orphaned infant gorilla named Bushman arrived at Lincoln Park Zoo on this date, he quickly...
DOCTORATES NOT JUST FOR PROFESSORS-TO-BE
The doctoral degree, a hard-won credential awarded after years of advanced study, once was typically perceived as the ticket to the elite status of university professor. That translated into a...
CONTROVERSIAL SCHOOL NOW A BIBLE COLLEGE
The American Conservatory of Music, ordered this year by Illinois courts to stop offering bogus college degrees, has inched over the state line into Hammond in an apparent effort to...
CAMPUS MINISTRY’S EXIT STIRS LEGAL, FAITH ISSUES
An interfaith campus ministry office that Northeastern Illinois University abruptly closed Monday should never have been allowed to open in a university building because its presence violated the 1st Amendment,...
MAJOR CHANGES PROPOSED FOR VA HOSPITALS
As the population of war veterans declines along with the number of major military conflicts, a long-awaited report on the VA is recommending a dramatic restructuring of the Chicago area's...
HEAT TURNS UP THE BURNER
The weekend heat claimed at least two victims in the Chicago area, including a 2-year-old Villa Park girl who died Sunday after she was left sleeping in a closed car...
STATE FEMALE PROFESSORS RESPOND TO MIT REPORT
An unprecedented report on the systematic discrimination against women faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the nation's premier science and engineering research institutions, has generated a wave...
FACULTY’S VOTE ON LOYOLA CHIEF INCONCLUSIVE
Thirty-six percent of Loyola University faculty members cast a vote of no confidence in President John J. Piderit, according to results released Monday of the first such vote in the...
OLD SNOW DOESN’T DIE, IT JUST PILES UP
These are the places where the Blizzard of '99 goes to die. Snow that first fell on roads, intersections and school parkways is being trucked to parks, empty lots and...