Sophie Levenson

Sophie Levenson is a rising senior at Duke University, where she studies English and Journalism. She covers sports for The Duke Chronicle and just finished up her term as managing sports editor. Sophie previously interned at The Concord Monitor in New Hampshire. She is from Charleston, South Carolina.

Cynthia Myers and her husband, Cheikh Fall, hug, dance and wave their arms as they are reunited outside O’Hare International Airport on June 27, 2025. Fall was detained by ICE and sent to Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

A mistake by ICE put her husband in jail. She got him back 3 weeks later.

June 30, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Cheikh Fall's asylum case was open and on track when ICE agents arrested him at the Chicago Immigration Court in June.

Alison Eichhorn holds a peanut butter Snowstorm at her vegan ice cream store Runaway Cow on June 18, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

PETA names Chicago the country’s most vegan-friendly city

June 24, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Runaway Cow was one of several vegan spots named by PETA in early June when the animal rights organization recognized Chicago as the top vegan-friendly city in the country.

A pedestrian passes the Gale Street Inn on June 20, 2025, in Chicago. The restaurant recently shut down. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Gale Street Inn, known for ‘the best ribs in the city of Chicago,’ abruptly closes

June 23, 2025 at 8:56 a.m.

Gale Street Inn, a Jefferson Park neighborhood staple in operation since 1963, announced that it is permanently closed. The restaurant is widely known for its signature baby back ribs.

A vandalized mural with a burned face of a Palestinian man, along 16th Street near Ashland Avenue in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood on June 18, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Advocates call for hate crime charges for woman who defaced Pilsen mural

June 18, 2025 at 8:48 p.m.

A nonprofit civil rights advocacy group called Wednesday for hate crime charges to be brought against a woman accused of attacking another woman, who caught her defacing a painting of...

Chicago police stand near where a toddler and a man were fatally shot and a woman was wounded in the 2300 block of South Kenneth Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood in 2017. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Man sentenced to 20 years in toddler’s 2017 slaying that was streamed on Facebook Live

June 18, 2025 at 3:15 p.m.

A judge on Wednesday sentenced a man to 20 years in prison in an attack that killed a 2-year-old boy and his uncle on Valentine's Day in 2017 after he...

A rainbow cake is sold by the slice at Jennivee's Bakery & Cafe on June 13, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

These Chicago LGBTQ-owned businesses offer rainbow cakes, colorful coffees and a ‘third space’ for all

June 17, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

LGBTQ-owned businesses in Chicago are celebrating Pride Month in style with eye-catching specials including cakes, cookies and a flight of specialty drinks.

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