Student journalists WKCR-FM NY at Columbia are rightly getting a lot of praise for their continued reporting in the face of police crackdowns. Here’s more info on them + other student outlets to follow covering protests across the country >> teenvogue.com/story/student-…

this book was so good it single-handledly activated my dormant anxiety and for that I will never forgive John Green

Green alleys are a special type of infrastructure to prevent flooding, one of Illinois’ most threatening natural disasters. Their construction in Chicago has skewed heavily toward the city’s North and Northwest Side.

Since a misleading, very condensed version of this Chicago Tribune analysis is circulating in right-wing media, I thought I'd share the reshare the real thing, with all the nuance from Joe Mahr, Laura N. Rodríguez Presa and Nell Salzman. chicagotribune.com/2024/04/27/mig…

The Chicago Tribune and seven other newspapers sued Microsoft and OpenAI on Tuesday. trib.al/dHb1IQY

The Great Lakes piping plover population, which reached an all-time low of 13 pairs in the 1980s, has rebounded to around 70 breeding pairs thanks to recent conservation efforts.
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The Chicago native John Mulaney returned to his high school, St. Ignatius College Prep with fellow master of sarcasm David Letterman for an especially entertaining edition of 'My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.' trib.al/KbUKG3y

BREAKING: Northwestern University reaches agreement with protesters
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Red (Eyes) is so funny to me

April 25 was the official launch of a $10 million restoration project in the Palos Preserves in the south suburbs. The effort to remove invasive shrubs and improve and repair trails will impact almost 1,100 acres, mostly west of Wolf Road.
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Microplastics (< 5 mm or the size of a pencil eraser) have been found in human blood, organs & breast milk. A study discovered microplastics in 12 brands of beer brewed with water from the Great Lakes. 88% of samples of 16 protein products, from fish to tofu, have microplastics.

A new 20-year study by Alliance for the Great Lakes with data from 14,000 beach cleanups found 86% of Great Lakes litter is plastic that is ‘just getting smaller and smaller.’ It’s infiltrating the drinking water of 30 million people — and their systems.
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Using data from more than 14,000 beach cleanups over 20 years, a new report from the nonprofit Alliance for the Great Lakes found that 86% of litter entering the Great Lakes in a given year is either partially or fully composed of plastic.
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El famoso chorlito de Chicago Imani ha vuelto a la playa de Montrose para el verano: chicagotribune.com/2024/04/26/el-…

The front page of today's Chicago Tribune. Read the e-edition here: chicagotribune.com/enewspaper

86% of Great Lakes litter is plastic, a 20-year study shows. And the plastic is ‘just getting smaller and smaller ⁦Adriana Pérez⁩ chicagotribune.com/2024/04/28/gre…

Chicago’s lovebird has returned. Imani, son of the city’s cherished piping plovers Monty and Rose, returned to the sands of Lake Michigan on Thursday.
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The untold story of those affected by the sudden closing of Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen: Dozens of immigrant workers who can’t get unemployment.

“We are families, we are not garbage,” they chanted in Spanish in front of the Foxtrot commissary in Pilsen.

More to come.

I am so grateful for The Daily Northwestern's updates this morning. Y'all are campus experts. It shows in your nuanced and detailed reporting of your institution and classmates.