Good morning, Chicago.

The UIC Office of Community Collaboration launched an eight-week civic engagement cohort on Chicago’s West Side to boost youth leadership and understanding of government.

Participants met with 22nd Ward Ald. Michael Rodriguez and visited Springfield for Youth Advocacy Day.

Fifty years after its 1976 debut, Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It continues to inspire local readers, drawing on his University of Chicago ties and fly-fishing legacy.

An opera adaptation opens Sept. 18 in Bozeman, Montana + conservation advocates seek to rename pending legislation after the book.

UIC leads a monarch butterfly conservation effort with over 100 partners protecting 1.3 million acres across 47 states (including energy and transportation groups) by using voluntary measures to plant milkweed and flowering plants that help address habitat loss.

UIC scientists discovered manikomycin, a new antibiotic that targets the ribosome in a novel way to combat drug-resistant superbugs.

The research (published in Nature) shows that the drug uses multiple pathways to enter bacterial cells and requires further enhancement for future clinical use.