On Sunday, more than 45,000 runners gathered in Grant Park to participate in the Chicago Marathon. In its 42nd year, the marathon welcomed runners from more than 100 countries, all 50 states and Northwestern’s...
Usually, Medill sophomores Emma Kumer, Anna Laffrey and David Gleisner chase stories. But on April 16, they ran after something different — the finish line of the 122nd Annual Boston Marathon.
Kumer...
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As a student studying organ at Northwestern, Richard Webster (Bienen ‘74, ‘77) spent a lot of time playing music by Baroque-period composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
As a senior in 1974, Webster...
As he walked around Boston on Sunday afternoon, Evanston resident John Kayser said there was a special “vibrancy” in the air the day before the first Boston Marathon since deadly bombs went off at...
Nearly 40,000 people completed the 36th Chicago Marathon on Sunday, the first running of the annual race since the April bombing at the Boston Marathon.
More than 300 Evanston residents registered...