Food waste is a huge problem in this country. Food insecurity is an even bigger problem, and growing by the day as more and more people have lost their livelihood to the pandemic. What if you could solve both of these problems at once? This...
Every Thanksgiving the Winnetka Board hoasts a Thanksgiving Dinner for the Northwestern University Settlement House (NUSH), it's an in-person event on the Tuesday before the holiday, and they serve dinner for about 400 people. Thanks to COVID, that wasn't happening either. So the board got...
When life as we know it stopped in March of 2020, Jewish teenagers all over the country had to put their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs on hold. But all of that hard work wasn't going to stop them from fulfilling their big day as...
With the nation watching, our schools across the country are serving as a model for how our country can operate in a pandemic, but will it work?...
With so many people out of work, food insecurity is a huge issue for so many families right now, so to see organizations coming together to solve this immediate crisis inspired me to reach out to Frontline Foods and see if I could lend my...
Right now we are all in conversation about what school will look like for this coming year. Many of us don't know if our students will even set foot in a classroom. But we do know that the 8th grade will once again graduate in...
The premise of the piece was a tour of the city's South and West sides as seen by the police, simultaneously answered by the sincerity of youth, unafraid to call out the brutality they face every day, "my crime, nigger, and their justification, a cell...
A group of friends in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago put their own site together to funnel food deliveries to the local hospitals and front line workers. Their goal, to do what they can to help the healthcare workers get through these grueling days...
Running around the city and suburbs with people who are disabled makes you suddenly see things that you've never seen before, you definitely look at everything differently. It's like how I always have to remind myself that the Lawrence Red Line stop is not accessible...
After all of the commotion during the Chicago Public Schools strike (view photos on Facebook or Instagram) I thought it would be fun to focus (always pun intended) on a different kind of organized union of voices...