Ashley Mizuo, Author at Chicago Reader

Are 16-year-olds smart enough to vote? Vote16 Illinois thinks so

Some students are pushing Chicago and Illinois to follow the lead of other places that lowered the voting age recently.

Until the Flood at the Goodman and more goings-on 5/7-5/10.

Despite being under federal investigation, the Cook County circuit court clerk announced her candidacy for Chicago mayor Sunday.

Students across the city plan to leave class and gather in Grant Park Friday to protest gun violence.

Weed Week: There is no completely reliable test for marijuana intoxication, and very few cops trained to recognize it.

The taco joint was closed for one of the busiest weekends of the year.

Students marching Saturday said they refused to let the violent deaths of friends go in vain.

GoodKidsMadCity, a group of student activists, is organizing the “sit-/die-in.”

The head of the Cook County Dems who hired relatives and oversaw an unfair property tax system conceded the race to Fritz Kaegi.

While a report of a gun on campus turned out to be a hoax, it heightened fears on a day of a nationwide walkout.