Many students have to pick up extra jobs just to stay afloat during the summer, but luckily Chicago offers a glorious array of activities which cost as little as no money! ...

In early 2006, more than 5 years ago, a colleague asked if I had any interest in writing a doctor advice column for The Chicago Flame. ...

From freshly cut grass to pine trees, allergies stemming from the return of spring have caused Chicagoans to see spring as the season that we, 'can't live with, and can't live without.' ...

UIC Baseball (22-23, 11-7 Horizon League) is looking to finish the season strong, with only a handful of games standing between them and the Horizon League Tournament. ...

It's hard to even utter the word 'satisfaction' without making your best impersonation of the electro-house song made popular by Grammy Award-winning DJ Benny Benassi. ...

Part of the fascination with 'The Voice', a new singing competition show on NBC, is the fact that it's a singing competition with actual famous singers as the coaches and judges. ...

The first of many GOP presidential debates was held on May 5th. This debate seemed more like a Republican second-string scrimmage rather than a debate, but a lot can happen on the road to the 2012 election. ...

American universities are places of learning, but they're also forums of exploration and self-expression. ...

On May 2, 2011, the so-called 'mastermind' behind the 9/11 attacks and ndash; the man responsible for the death of over 3,000 people and ndash; was killed by U.S. Navy Seals. ...

Kristin Boyd walked into UIC's College of Business Administration not knowing that one semester later she would leave behind her finance major to pursue the words of literary critics. ...

Nurses throughout the country were honored during the National Nurses Week from Friday, May 6 through Thursday May 12 last week. ...

This summer there will be no issues of the Chicago Flame Newspaper to pick up, but you can still read our archives online. ...

Members of the UIC community gathered at the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) last Friday for a special event celebrating Professor David Perry and his eleven years as Director of the UIC Great Cities Institute. ...

'I can't talk dirty. There are enough uncomfortable things going on that I don't see why I should be asked to add that to the cocktail.' Spoken like every honest woman, ever. ...

Last Wednesday a media-proclaimed bombshell was dropped on the American people. The most unexpected event shook the very essence of American democracy since the Civil War. ...

The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) met for their final meeting of the semester last Thursday to discuss the possible repeal and revote of the controversial USG member compensation act voted into effect last week. ...

As the spring semester comes to an end, one referendum is still waiting to be passed. Although the Green Fee referendum was supported in a recent student vote, it still must be approved by the U of I Board of Trustees. ...

UIC students undressed in the UIC Quad and ran around campus in their underwear last Monday to celebrate UIC's first ever Undie Run, a nationwide competition between universities to donate clothing to the less fortunate. ...

Over a thousand people gathered at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church this past Saturday, April 30, to demand that Illinois legislators pass the DREAM Act. ...

A group of students from the College of Pharmacy are working with the Respiratory Health Association and the Chicago Tobacco Prevention Project to transform the UIC Medical Center (UIMC) into a smoke-free campus. ...