Ahead of the final night of the DNC in Chicago, every story on the front page of suntimes.com right now has to do with Palestinians

All week, but particularly last night, there was a palpable contrast between the DNC party celebrating Kamala Harris at the United Center and the thousands in Chicago chanting about genocide blocks away, trying to get the Democrats’ attention. chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democrati…

Chicago-area high school student Tlanextli Sanchez marched with her fam last night: "I can repost as much as I want, but until I'm actually out there in the streets & I'm really raising my voice for the people who can’t..." Only then will she make a difference, she said. #DNC

I thought of my mom constantly as I covered the march Thursday night. If she were still alive, I imagine she would have been there too, with Rummana Hussain's mother. Thank you, Rummana, for this beautiful piece. chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/202…

Yamilet Guapo & Betzayda Hernandez became friends this past weekend after moving into the dorms University of Illinois Chicago. Guapo said of her freshman year: "I can't wait to be exposed to different cultures and just like meet different people and see more of the world at one place." #college

The fun summer clip art was a real choice here. Funding gaps can keep students from lower- and middle-income families from pursuing their college dreams, or put them in significant debt from private/PLUS loans. It’s not cute.

I learn so much from Eric Hoover's reporting and writing: "Two weeks before the first day of classes, Jessica was at the mercy of a bureaucracy with busted wheels. She couldn’t make them turn faster. She could only wait."

Practice kindness. Find caring adults. Use a calendar. Talk to your professors. Run don't walk to career services. I asked russell lowery-hart ASP Dallas & Houston Sara Yelich Miller Kevin R. McClure and others for the advice they'd give college students: open-campus-dispatch.beehiiv.com/p/backtoschool…

PHOTOS: Volunteers with Al Hub Chicago help paint a piece of plywood that covers a smashed out window at Nabala Cafe in the Uptown Neighborhood, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Vandals smashed the Palestinian-owned cafe's window overnight on Sunday. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/09/0…

Northwestern Thrasher: "The point of all this is to scare everybody. But there’s nothing they can do to make me stop." #gaza #Palestine 🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻