January 4th, 2010
Chicago summer internships give you extremely valuable professional skills that can assist you in your search for a job and for the career that will satisfy you. However, being in Chicago teaches you a lot more than just professional skills. Living in one of the country’s urban centers can teach you life lessons and skills that you can’t learn any other way.
Navigating Chicago
If you have never lived in a urban setting, an internship in Chicago can be an eye-opening experience since you’ll be living in the city. First of all, you will have to learn to get around! In our Chicago internship programs, we allow you to get oriented before you start your internship and seminars.
One of the first things you learn is how to get around. The famous “El” train, buses and even trolleys can help you get around in the Windy City, and we’ll help you get accustomed to riding public transportation. Before you know it, it will feel like second nature. Bus and train routes become more than just lines on a map as you get to know the landmarks and attractions of the city. Read More
October 30th, 2007
More notes about internships from current students in the Fall 2007 Academic Semester.
Maggie writes:
I am working with the editor of the Hyde Park Herald on something resembling an independent research project. We have spent the first few weeks getting to understand the CHA’s plan to move residents out of and demolish various housing developments on the southside. We will also be conducting and transcribing interviews with community members going through the relocation process.
I chose this internship because it is a great mix of the subjects I am studying in college, sociology and ethnic studies, and I have been able to grapple with things like gentrification, segregation, and institutionalized racism as well as other race/class based housing issues.
I will be responsible for gathering and transcribing interviews and through regular discussions with the editor (Gabriel Piedmonte) will get to help decide what best to do with our database.
Michelle writes:
I’m an intern at the Ronald McDonald House in Lincoln Park (a neighborhood north of the Loop). I do anything from office work to projects on my own such as “sibling support.”
Sibling support is a program that basically reasures healthy siblings that they are not forgotten. Parents seem to put all the attention on the sick child and forget to acknowledge them. At the RMH house we provide stationaries to send letters home, phone cards and even a toy store in our basement. We understand that the families that stay at RMH dont have a lot to give but we do. We want them to feel at home and take full advantage of everything our house offers.
I think it’s the little things that makes RMH so special to so many families all over the world. I love when guests say RMH is their “home away from home.”
June 30th, 2007
This gentleman from Indiana likes to ride and relax along the lakefront in Hyde Park. Hard to find a prettier place in the city!
June 21st, 2007
Summer Session students attended Rainbow PUSH’s weekly Saturday forum, founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson.
