Illinois must have still been licking its wounds following Saturday's loss to UNLV, because they had to rally to beat Cornell. more ›

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Bill Carmody's Wildcats improved to 4-0 on the season and won the Charleston Classic in Charleston, SC, thanks to Drew Crawford's 27 points. Crawford scored 72 points in Northwestern's three games to earn tournament MVP honors. more ›

The Blackhawks took on San Jose without Jonathan Toews, while UIC and Loyola took to the hardcourt. more ›

It’s commencement season. Every year at this time, there is fierce competition among universities to find prominent figures with the right sort of cache to send their graduates off right. University of Michigan made a splash this year with a speech from President Obama which was less controversial than his Notre Dame appearance last year. What about the local universities? more ›

Mahab Hassan, 26, of the 6700 block of N. Sheridan Rd., has been charged with starting an apartment fire in the Far North Side Rogers Park neighborhood on January 14 that killed one man and injured five other people. Hassan was charged with aggravated arson, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and first degree murder, according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. Hassan was found on the North Side on January 15 with a loaded handgun. He was taken into custody and formally charged on Saturday at 11:30 p.m., Mirabelli said to the Chicago Sun-Times. more ›

Loyola University is set to receive its largest donation in the school's history in the form of a 100 acre estate in north suburban Vernon Hills worth $50 million. The Cuneo Museum and Gardens was originally built as a private residence by Samuel Insull in 1914. You may be familiar with Insull's name -- he started a little utility company called Commonwealth Edison, and is also responsible for the building of Chicago's Civic Opera House. After Insull's fortune was wiped out during the Great Depression, the mansion and grounds were bought by printing magnate John Cuneo, Sr., and the Cuneo family has owned the property since. When Cuneo's widow died in 1990, Cuneo's son, John, Jr., opened up the 31,000 square foot home to the public as a museum. The inside is a stunning display of extravagance, filled with exquisite antiques and art, and many of the walls and ceilings feature paintings by famed muralist John Mallin. more ›

The Rogers Park Young Women’s Action Team formed five years ago when a handful of teenage girls decided to rally against the unsolicited cat calls and sexual harassment they felt forced to endure on the streets. Now, they’re kneeing the CTA in the balls. more ›

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There are good ideas and there are great ideas. Doctors at Loyola University Medical Center have devised a way to make sure surgical sponges don’t get lost in people anymore. Hooray for medical technology! They’re going to put bar codes on the sponges, and a nurse will scan the sponge before it goes in and the system will tell the nurse if any sponges have been left inside. more ›

Happy 80th birthday, Alderman Bernie Stone! All the other aldermen threw him a surprise party today. Squee, cutest city council meeting ever. more ›

Loyola University Medical Center started testing all incoming patients for that drug-resistant staph germ that's been going around. Our version of a spa is where George Ryan's going to prison. Jesse Jackson Jr. throws a "tea party" style photo op, dumping bottled water in the Chicago River. Big talk for a man who opted not to run against His Elective Majesty for Mayor. Does El Cubanito make the best Cuban sandwich in town? You'll... more ›

What would you do with $180,000? Oh, the possibilities. You could buy 18,000 albums on iTunes. You could pick up that brand-new Mercedes you’ve always wanted. Or maybe you could finally afford one of those new condos springing up everywhere. Danielle Littrell had lofty dreams of her own: the Farmington, MO teen was going to use it for college. That is, until the Navy yanked their dangling carrot out from under her nose. more ›

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With Don Imus shooting his mouth off, the same old recycled music, and Clear Channel dictatorially ruling the airwaves, radio is leaving a lot to be desired these days. That's why community stations like WLUW (88.7) are such an oasis in the desert of mainstream radio. more ›

Women in technology are hard to find, and we don’t mean the White Town album. According to the 2001 Current Population Survey data, one out of 10 employed engineers was a woman, while two out of 10 employed engineering technologists and technicians were women. Women made up 17 percent of all industrial engineers, 12 percent of metallurgical/metal engineers and 11.5 percent of chemical engineers. Among all other engineering specialties, women represented fewer than 11 percent. more ›

The Illinois State Senate is considering a state-wide ban on smoking. Senator Terry Link from Vernon Hills introduced a bill that’s basically the same as what we’re currently living with in Chicago. The bill serves the purpose of easing the woes of businesses in municipalities where smoking has already been banned. They are loosing business as their smoking customers are willing to drive to other bars and restaurants where smoking is allowed. Any statewide... more ›

Chicagoist has long held that it’s important to separate the artist from the art; some of the best musicians make lousy human beings (Chuck Berry, take a bow!). But lately, we keep stumbling upon two artists who seem like lovely people you could bring home to Mom. more ›

Sigh. Chicagoist is hesitant to point out that around 1 a.m. today, a woman in her early 20s was beaten and sexually assaulted in her Lakeview apartment building. It isn't that our hearts don't go out to this poor girl. They do. Chicagoist has too many friends who've been in similar situation and knows this woman has a long road ahead. No, we're only hesistant to point it out because women are raped every day... more ›

Your big Valentine’s Evening need not be threatened by a lack of ideas or lack of cash. You can impress that special someone tonight for absolutely free! Yes, that sounds like bad email spam but it’s true. Many of our favorite museums are free on Tuesdays. more ›

The local news is buzzing about the newborn boy found abandoned in a backyard in the suburbs. Melrose Park police report that neighbors found the child on Tuesday evening after the poor kid had been out in the cold for ten to twenty minutes, wrapped in nothing more than a woman's bathrobe. While the child (named Jesus Noel) is being cared for at Loyola University Medical Center, the police are looking for clues regarding the identity of the child's parents. more ›

Can someone explain to Chicagoist how it is that a doctor needs to be told that before shipping off someone's organ to be placed in the body of another person for use - as opposed for giggles - he or she needs to EXAMINE IT FIRST? Isn't that sort of, oh, a given? more ›

A smorgasbord for the mind, the 2005 Chicago Humanities Festival has rolled into town. This year’s theme is Home and Away, concerning “the role that ‘place’ serves in the creation of our sense of rootedness and belonging.” Sounds like Pretentious-English-Major-speak, but an impressive slate of writers, musicians and performers are addressing such hot button issues as globalization, mobility, national identity, and bridging regional differences. Most tickets are $5, a bargain that ensures many sold out... more ›

A new report says that the Chicago Park District could raise a whole lot of cash by further developing harbors for boat slips, especially by Navy Pier and Loyola University. Right now there are about 5,000 100-boat slips downtown but they're about 98% full. The report estimates that over the next 20 years we're going to have about 3,000 more boats and nowhere to put them. The Park District expects that it'll clear about $10... more ›

Oh, this is terrible. Seriously this is just the worst possible thing ever. On this their 3rd anniversary, Loyola University’s independent radio station WLUW has extended their usual one-day record fair to two days! This is horrible! It’s bad enough we had to put off paying the electricity bill for a month last spring just to subsidize our habit. But this year we know that much like the effect of Mr. Brownstone, we’ll try to buy a little but a little won’t do it so the little will get more and more-ore.
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Looking for something different to do this weekend? On Saturday, the Filipinos in Alliance at UIC presents the Battle of the Bamboo, a competitive showcase of Philippine cultural dances performed by university students. A trophy will be awarded to the winning group and they'll be judged by a panel of professional choreographers and artists in the Chicago Filipino community. more ›

, so we'd like to thank the Tribune for running its debate drinking game article today. It gives us plenty of time to get ready. more ›

Professor Moolky Nagabhushan, of the Loyola University Medical Center, announced at a conference on Childhood leukemia in London that tumeric, one of the main spices in curry, helps fight leukemia, lessens the harmful effects of cigarette smoke and processed food, and stops cancer cells from multiplying in the body. Further proof is that people in Asia, who eat a ton of curry, have much lower rates of blood cancer. more ›