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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 are dedicated to all things serious and curious at the University of Chicago.

Business as Usual: A peek into a well-established neighborhood watering hole

By Kristin Lin / November 30, 2015

The Medici has now moved a few blocks west from its original space at the back of Green Door Bookshop (now B’Gab’s Goodies). But it has remained a campus staple.

The Satellite Dorms: Culture, Traditions, and the Making of Home

By Kiran Misra and Robin Ye / May 14, 2015

What do you think makes Maclean unique?

Growing Pains

By Ankit Jain / February 16, 2015

The Metcalf program is one of the most ambitious efforts by any university to bring a modicum of fairness to the inherently unfair unpaid-intern economy. If UChicago needs to make its program something worth emulating.

Down the Rabbit Hole

By Hannah Nyhart / June 4, 2013

Grey City chases The Maroon Rabbit, part of the transmedia game "The Project", through magical portals, chilling initiations, and a cathartic finale this winter quarter.

Under the Table

By Emma Broder / June 4, 2013

The identities behind campus foodie culture: From Robert Lipman and The Hearth to underground apartment dinners and UChicago marketing strategies.

Harboring the Humanities

By Jon Catlin / June 4, 2013

We go inside the Humanities Division, the history of the Common Core, the Graduate Aid Initiative, and double majors to understand why the Humanities will always have a strong home at the University of Chicago.

Pierce: A view for the ages

By Chris Deakin / June 4, 2013

The current Henderson House president excavates a Pierce history as residents past and present prepare for the tower's demolition, scheduled for summer 2013.