![Alex Chaouki. Photo courtesy of Parker portal.](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/large_user_6900387_821-1200x1200.jpg)
Who is “The Chaouk Man?”
An in-depth interview with junior Alexander Chaouki
![Fifty Years of FWP](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/weekly_online_NP_template-3.jpg)
Fifty Years of FWP
A discussion with Dan Frank in honor of his 50 year high school reunion
![The newly installed playground equipment in the Courtyard.](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_3985-900x1200.jpg)
A Welcome Courtyard Addition
New playground equipment installed
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College is an Accomplishment
Has college talk in the Upper School taken on too harsh a tone?
![BSU heads Audrey Hunter, Spencer Dunbar, Hudson Davis and Gabe Vilus speak at the BSU Social.](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BSU-Social-960x1200.jpeg)
The BSU Social
Parker’s Black Student Union hosts the first BSU Social in Chicago history
![The Need to Remember](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/need-12.png)
The Need to Remember
Exploring the significance of Veteran's Day as a holiday
![Student fans watch the White Out game from the bleachers at Illinois Institute of Technologys Keating Sports Center.](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/White-Out-3-by-JP-1200x888.jpeg)
White Out Venue
Major Parker basketball games changes locations out of Lincoln Park
![Dylan Maki 24, Owen Zeller 27, Gabriel Vilus 25, and Davu Hemphill- Smith 24 dressed for not-so-casual Friday.](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Not-so-casual-Friday-courtesy-of-Dylan-Maki-802x1200.jpg)
A Not-so-Casual Community Initiative
Upper Schoolers Team up to Make Unity Fashionable
![Adelstein acts in Parker production of Fiddler on the Roof, 1987.](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Paul-Adelstein-by-Parker-1017x1200.jpg)
From Parker to Private Practice
Meet Parker Alumnus Paul Adelstein
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Summer Shouldn’t be a Bummer
Can fun exist in summers where education takes precedent?
![Jimmy Contrerass yearbook photo.](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/large_user_4504359_581-1-720x900.jpg)
Contreras’s New Conquest
Jimmy Contreras Retires after 40 years
![Senior Phoebe Friedman and sophomore Ellis Brown perform in the Heller Auditorium.](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_0286-900x600.jpg)
Don’t Feed the Plants!
Parker Production of Little Shop of Horrors Dazzles Audience
![Baking Club members crowd around their brownies, which they love even more because they made them together.](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-07-at-8.24.21-PM.png)
A New Ingredient In Student Life
Juniors bring back the Parker baking club
![Lyric Nelson, Izzy Markel, Naomi Geller, and Caleb Aklilu (top) posing at
club fair in the fall.](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_4667-900x675.jpg)
A Place of Belonging
Parker’s new multi-racial affinity group brings multi-racial Upper School students together
![Synapses Fire at Mind and Brain Class](https://parkerweekly.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mind-and-brain.jpg)
Synapses Fire at Mind and Brain Class
A visiting surgeon works towards a more inclusive future for the field of neuroscience