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4 weeks ago | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman |Addison Annis
Students will get their first look next week at a new registration system for Fall 2025 when the course schedule goes live on Monday, April 21. The...
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4 weeks ago | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman |Addison Annis
In recent years, avian influenza H5N1, also known as bird flu, has infected thousands of animals, and it is not reserved for just the flying creatures this virus is named for. The first human death from bird flu in the United States happened this January. Farm animals like chickens and cattle are especially affected by H5N1, which is impacting the price of animal products like eggs. Egg prices are at an all time high and projected to keep going up.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman |Sofía Oyarzún |Lily Thomas
[email protected] Peyton Reich is a junior photojournalism major, minoring in marketing. Reich has covered the Mexican Independence parade, Columbia's Black Student Union and theatre performances. Reich joined the Chronicle in August 2023. Hometown: Flossmoor, Illinois
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman |Sofía Oyarzún |Lily Thomas |Amelia Rodriguez |Amelia Rodríguez
The college celebrated its founding in 1890 with an anniversary event on Tuesday, Feb. 11 in the Conaway Center at 1104 S. Wabash Ave. The celebration featured trivia, guest speakers and the unveiling of a mural made by Columbia alum Mac McGuire, an illustration major who graduated in 2024. The college started as the Columbia School of Oratory by Mary A. Blood and Ida Morey Riley in 1890. It became the Columbia College of Expression in 1927 and then in 1944 was renamed Columbia College.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman
December 12, 2024 Senior fashion studies major Sophia Klun has been a student intern at the Fashion Study Collection since the Spring semester of 2022. As an intern she is tasked with conducting inventory on the over 6,000 piece collection, giving tours to classes and individual students alike, and maintaining an ever-growing knowledge of the contents of the FSC. The FSC contains pieces from a range of decades, with its oldest being from the 1810s.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman
November 6, 2024 Former President Donald Trump made a remarkable political comeback to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 presidential race. At the time of publication, Trump had 295 electoral college votes, well over the needed 27o to become the 47th president of the United States. The twice-impeached Trump is the first convicted felon to be elected president, and only the second president to serve non-consecutive terms.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman
[email protected] Addison Annis is a senior photojournalism major, minoring in video production. She has covered politics, cultural events and Chicago protests. Annis joined the Chronicle in August 2022. Hometown: Plymouth, Minn.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman
October 30, 2024 In this year’s presidential election, one in every four poll workers in Chicago is a high school or college student. Across different states and counties, there are different titles for poll workers; in Chicago, the main position poll workers take up is that of election judge. Responsibilities for this position include setting up voting equipment, greeting and checking in voters, issuing the correct ballots, helping voters with registration and more.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman |Lily Thomas
October 22, 2024 Students filed into the first floor of the Student Center for the first day of RegFest, which is held each semester to offer students guidance on class schedules ahead of the next semester. Two of the nine academic advisors listed in the college directory attended on Tuesday, Oct. 22 to help students build a schedule for the Spring 2025 semester. Columbia Central also had a booth for students to get assistance with any holds on their accounts.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
columbiachronicle.com | Ali Brenneman
Students from across the country packed into the Conaway Center at 1104 S. Wabash for a summit on artificial intelligence on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The NBCU Academy hosted the live event, offering a variety of panels surrounding AI and how it impacts students, journalists and other communication professionals. Newsroom leaders from NBC and Telemundo were in attendance, to appear on panels, meet with students and make sure the show ran smoothly behind the scenes.
