The Latin School Union (LSU) is heading into the school year with no contract and no raise, but the collective bargaining process continues.

In its inaugural year after the June 2021 election, the LSU…

Opponents of reproductive rights have been seeking for decades to overturn Roe v. Wade, and based on the leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion, they may finally get their wish.
Roe v. Wade, a 1973…

Latin highlights its diversity in bold letters in admissions pamphlets and on the school’s website, but both the administration and community members have vocalized a need for more representation of…

Four people were taken hostage by British citizen Malik Faisal Akram at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas on January 15. While all hostages survived, the attack sent shockwaves through Jewish…

There were 34 school shootings in the United States in 2021 alone, prompting many schools nationwide to bolster their methods of preventing these tragedies. From reviewing crisis management plans with…

While the city of Chicago and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) argue over working conditions in schools amid the COVID pandemic, more than 330,000 Chicago Public School students lost five days of school…

While the Omicron variant has triggered an uptick in Chicago COVID cases, Latin has managed to maintain in-person learning and after-school activities.

The school was able to bring students back into…

Student athletes at Latin are able to get through the entirety of their high school careers without taking a PE class outside of ninth grade wellness, yet visual and performance student artists are not…

Both Latin’s Islamic Student Association (ISA) and Jewish Student Connection (JSC) have begun the 2021-2022 school year in pursuit of affinity recognition, hoping to relinquish their current classifications…

As Latin nears the end of perhaps the most challenging year in its 133-year history, the school reached a new level of contentiousness this week as the faculty announced their intention to unionize and…

On March 16, Robert Aaron Long murdered eight people at three different spas in a series of shootings in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the eight victims (Xiaojie Tan, Hyun Jung Grant, Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley…

The fight for gender-neutral bathrooms has been an ongoing struggle at Latin. On February 24, Dean of Community Learning Suzanne Callis sent an email communicating that the previously gendered bathrooms…

When freshman and Forum staff writer Eliza Lampert aimed to “cover both sides” of the Biden executive order that widened access for transgender athletes—a subject that has spurred fiery national…

After graduating from Latin in 2017, Connor Kaniewski looked for a way to give back to the Latin community. He learned that sometimes all it takes is a simple phone call.

This act has proven invaluable…

Note: the names of the students in this article who tested positive for COVID-19 are kept anonymous for reasons associated with Latin’s nondisclosure policy on private health information.

Ever since…

When Chicago protestors shattered the eerie quiet of the pandemic last weekend with cries for basic human rights, police responded with riot shields. The shields appeared to create a symbolic divide between…

“For a woman to come to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real.” Presidential…

Many of the hard-working parents in Latin’s community are doctors who are currently being called upon to treat patients who have contracted COVID-19. Not only do these parents risk their own health and…

A six o’clock drive past Asian Youth Services—an after-school tutoring center founded to provide instruction and food to the children of Southeast Asian refugees—revealed a desolate scene. A look…

This past February 19, staff of The Forum visited the UC Laboratory High School to meet with editors of their student-run publication, The Midway. The conversation was not only informative but enlightening…