While gentrifying neighborhoods is positive development and quality, education is one of the biggest overlooked issues. Logan Square has an ever-increasing percentage of non-family homes, nearly 50 percent as of 2016. Combine this with the lowering enrollment numbers of neighborhood schools in the area, it leaves the future of CPS schools in Logan Square and the students currently enrolled in those schools uncertain.

He told me an hour, I gave him 59 minutes

A new, one-of-a-kind, souffle pancake house in Chicago just a few stops away from Illinois Tech.

“But there is one thing I always remember.”
Anthony raised an eyebrow in confusion. “Oh, and what is that?”

On Friday, September 13, 2019, Illinois Tech played host to former Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Johnson Space Center and first Hispanic woman astronaut Dr. Ellen Ochoa during the 2019 Darsh T. Wasan Lecture.  

We’re told to not speak of politics; it’s too dangerous. We’re told to keep our opinions locked away; we don’t want to get into an argument with a family member or friend. It’s better to keep political thought nestled safely in two places: your head and the voting booth. Ironically, in a country whose first amendment preserves freedom of speech, society poses a kind of political and economic oppression on us.