Illinois

Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation's Chief Shab-eh-nay

Illinois returns stolen land to Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation

Peter Schulte / March 25, 2025

The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe’s leader 175 years ago but stolen by the federal government 20 years later. A law signed by Gov. JB Pritzker last week transferred Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area, 1,500 acres in north-central Illinois. “We are proud to once again call this land home,” said Joseph “Zeke” Rupnick, chairman of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation based in Mayetta, Kansas.

Scientist holding new ultrathin pacemaker

Scientists invent ultrathin, wireless, light-operated pacemaker that cuts invasive surgery

Peter Schulte / February 26, 2024

Scientists at the University of Chicago have developed a new pacemaker that’s thinner than a human hair, wireless, and operated entirely by light from an optic fiber. The non-invasive device could help regulate heart activity or even stimulate neurons in a set pattern to treat symptoms of conditions like Parkinson’s.

Aerial view of Northwestern University campus

For the first time, U.S. prisoners graduate from top university

Peter Schulte / November 16, 2023

Northwestern University’s Prison Education Program has now welcomed its inaugural graduating class of incarcerated students. Around 100 students are enrolled in the Northwestern program across Stateville Correctional Center for men and the Logan Correctional Center for women.

Novel “inverse vaccine” reverses autoimmune diseases like MS, diabetes & arthritis

Peter Schulte / September 18, 2023

Researchers from the University of Chicago have created a new vaccine that can effectively treat these debilitating diseases in a way that doesn’t require suppressing the entire immune system and thus prevents a variety of negative side effects.

Woman with breast cancer pin holding hands with another

Cancer checks have given Americans 12 million more years of life over last 25 years

Peter Schulte / August 19, 2023

If everyone who qualified for current screening for four key forms of cancer received it, at least another 3.3 million life-years could be saved and another $1.7 trillion in economic impact added, the researchers from University of Chicago and University of Michigan find.