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Grey City is The Maroon’s features and investigative journalism section. We cover campus culture and local news in an in-depth, often long-form style, and we’re dedicated to all things serious and curious at the University of Chicago.

Insights From a Virtual Scrapbook

By Lucas Ribeiro, Grey City Reporter / May 16, 2024

Three years and 161 videos ago, the Maroon first wrote about Makayla MacGregor. As a UChicago first-year, MacGregor turned the focus of her high school YouTube channel toward the University of Chicago,...

Yours For Food

By Finn Hartnett / May 14, 2024

Hutchinson Commons’ adoption of the Grubhub point-of-sale system and what we lose when our daily interactions with the world go virtual.

A Brief History of Occupying Buildings and Camping on the Quad at UChicago

By Eli Wizevich / May 6, 2024

Grey City’s deep dive into the Maroon’s archive presents a lineage of civil disobedience and radical action by students against the administration over collegiate, local, and international issues.

“She wanted to be there for the kids”: Children at Pro-Palestine Encampment Express Solidarity

By Elena Eisenstadt / May 5, 2024

Alyssa Hulme, a MAPSS student who has brought her kids to the encampment, says it has been healing for her children “to actually feel like they were doing something to let their voices be heard.”

The Case of the Checkerboard Blues

By Celeste Alcalay, Grey City Deputy Editor / May 2, 2024

The now-defunct Checkerboard Lounge blues bar doubled as a popular UChicago college hangout before it relocated to Harper Court. “We were there to be part of the South Side, to experience Chicago in that way.”—Ethan Michaeli (A.B. '89)

ChatGPT vs. the UChicago Core

By Josie Barboriak / March 29, 2024

Tools like ChatGPT are a type of forbidden fruit, tempting even those who wouldn’t normally fudge their assignments.

What’s the incentive? Sellout Culture at UChicago

By Anika Krishnaswamy, Grey City Reporter / March 25, 2024

After first-year Alisha Arya committed to the University of Chicago, she opened the Class of 2027 Instagram page, eager to learn more about her new peers before the school year began. As she scrolled through...

University Faculty Aren’t Neutral When It Comes to Political Donations

By Austin Steinhart / February 12, 2024

Despite being an imperfect measurement of both political donations and individual beliefs, analyzing which candidates and PACs UChicago faculty donated to over the past five election cycles serves as a meaningful indicator of the collective political leaning of the faculty and their engagement in elections.