Category: Future of News

• For many years Rogers Park has been known as one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods, welcoming people from Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Though Rogers Park is widely…

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• Sharon K. Jackson was looking out her eighth floor window at the Prairie Shores apartments in Bronzeville when she noticed something different about the former Michael Reese Hospital site next…

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• Social media complicate our lives by making clear distinctions between “work” and “life” problematic. Blocking social networks in the workplace doesn’t sound like a good policy to me.

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• Lists are coming to Twitter, but there are other tools out there now to help use Twitter in targeted ways.

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• So, what is Google wave and what is it going to do to us?

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• This is not your father or your mother’s opera. Get out of your comfort zone and give this form of multimedia entertainment a try: Chicago Opera Vanguard reimagines Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential…

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• City officials and developers have been promoting Pilsen as Chicago’s hot new arts neighborhood. But some local artists fear all this attention will mean gentrification for their community. …

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• As they pick up the pieces of their dashed Olympic dreams, city officials this week are hashing out a “plan B” for a piece of land on the Near South Side that they once hoped would be home to a…

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• Five weeks into the school year there is still no sign of a yellow school bus for some students on the city’s Northwest Side attending the Coonley Regional Gifted Center, forcing many working…

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• Print publishers facing same disruption from technology that is transforming other industries.

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