Category Archives: Illinois
by Ben DeVries | Dec 18, 2018
We call this tradition—because why wouldn’t we—our “Filling Out of the Carle Foundation Hospital’s Application for Financial Assistance Christmas Tradition,” or FOCFHAFACT, for short.
by India Daniels | Dec 5, 2018
The word alderman has Anglo-Saxon origins: a noble (serving the king) as ruler of a local district. Quite literally it means “old man.”
by Julia LaPlaca | May 23, 2018
While at home, I went on a walk, remembering how, after a long rain, the air would smell like cupcakes or Cheerios as the fumes from General Mills wafted over the trees and rooftops.
by Ben DeVries | Mar 18, 2018
Turning out in droves despite rain and wind and snow, we marched and chanted and beat on bucket-drums and blew on whistles and papered the campus with fliers. We disrupted classes. We shut down buildings.
by Caitlin Gent | Mar 4, 2018
Jesse will be your second Tinder date, and your last.
by Ben DeVries | Feb 18, 2018
I do not want to strike. No one wants a strike. But if it comes to it, Jes and I will be on the picket line February 26, bright and early, because at that point we will have no other choice.
by Gabe Gunnink | Nov 20, 2017
And I realized these are the first things: not medals or adventures, but the cinch of laces around a foot and reliable slide of mud and bitter perfume of sweat rising like smoke off shoulders.
by Ben DeVries | Oct 18, 2017
If nothing else then, the Illinois Regional College Fair confirmed for me what I already knew: I would make a terrible salesperson.
by Carolyn Muyskens | Jun 29, 2017
Throughout the service, the wind seemed to heighten our attention rather than scatter it; there could be no looking away from God that day.
by Ben DeVries | Apr 18, 2017
I’ve found that the mundanities of teaching quickly and quietly bleed a name of its import.
