Exhilaration for this Friday’s White Out game is through the roof. For day two of White Out spirit week, Upper School students showed up to school decked out in neon colors. From 12:30pm to 1:00pm, during lunch, members of the girls and boys varsity...

At the top of a website, in bright yellow lettering are the words: “We can build a better world, we just need to imagine it first.” The site belongs to climate scientist, activist and humanist Dr. Mika Tosca, as she describes herself later on the...

On November 8th, millions across the country went to the voting booth to cast their ballot in this year’s midterm elections that determine which party takes control of Congress in addition to many other significant races around the country. At the polls...

On the blustery morning of November 5, 25 delegates from Francis Parker strode through the grand doors of Saint Ignatius College Prep School. Hundreds of students filled the bleachers in the St. Ignatius gym, conversing and preparing. From 8:30 A.M. to...

Upper school science teacher Bridget Lesinski facilitates an elective in which participating students study psychology and focus on brain processes and behavior. They study topics from each of the domains of psychology: psychological perspectives, biopsychology,...

The basketball season is back underway. On Monday, November 7th the preseason had officially started for both the boy’s and girl's basketball teams. Payton Pitts, Owen Stepan, and Caleb David lead the boys varsity team as captains. The boy's team will...

On the morning of October 3, the Parker community entered the Auditorium to see four people seated in chairs on the stage. Three chairs held Parker students who are participants in the annual Civic Lab program for all 11th grade students. The remaining...

On Monday, October 31st, Parker continued the Halloween tradition of the Halloween parade. The parade was right after school, starting at 3:30 p.m. and it ran until 4:30 p.m.. Any students in JK through fifth grade had the opportunity to be a part of...

On Wednesday, October 18, Paws for Parker had their first meeting of the year led by Sophomore Devon Chatales, now serving her second year as the Paws to Parker's head. Chatalas reinvigorated the club last year as a freshman. The club has since...

On Friday, October 28, 4th Ward Alderman Sophia King came to speak to the Upper School at Student Government Plenary. Sophia King has been an Alderman since 2016 and is now running in the 2023 Chicago mayoral election. A panel of five Parker Students...

For many consecutive years, the Parker auditorium has housed three weekly Morning Exs (MX), but that has recently changed. After COVID-19, the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday MXs were reduced to events only on Monday and Friday. Last year, the Wednesday...

September. It’s time for spirit day outfits. It’s the sound of bagpipes and student section cheers filling the school. It’s the celebratory Morning Ex parade. And, for Parker’s high school students, it's fall’s greatest kickoff: homecoming.  Social...