As a private police force, UCPD is not subject to Illinois open-records laws or extensive city oversight, unlike police at some other peer institutions.
The notorious financier and sex offender wrote in a text message that UChicago Trustee Thomas Pritzker (M.B.A. ’76, J.D. ’76) was “like family,” according to documents released by the House Oversight Committee on November 12.
The Maroon used publicly available data to track millions of dollars in research grants that were terminated at UChicago last spring, as the Trump administration cut funding for universities nationwide.
One year after 10 students faced disciplinary hearings for their participation in the pro-Palestine encampment or occupation of the Institute of Politics building, faculty remain concerned about a lack of transparency in the University’s disruptive conduct disciplinary processes.
UChicago trustees’ donations to Republican candidates increased considerably in the 2024 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by the Maroon.
On the first anniversary of UChicago United for Palestine’s “Popular University for Gaza,” the Maroon revisits last spring’s protests and the University’s response.
Protests over UCMed’s lack of a Level I adult trauma center beginning in 2010 resulted in student arrests and misconduct by an undercover UCPD officer, forcing the University to reevaluate its protest policies and how it communicates them to students.
As Vietnam War protests raged on campus during the late 1960s, University administrators constructed a new program of discipline that avoided involving Chicago police or the courts.
