Katie Morris, Reporter
May 26, 2018
Taft students came together to utilize their coding skills and won recognition in Chicago’s first-ever 24-hour Chicago Public Schools Hackathon. Student groups Chicode and Event 0 hosted the first ever student-run 24-hour...
Katie Morris, Reporter
May 8, 2018
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Senior, Jacqueline Mendoza, was awarded the Health Education and Relief (HEAR) Scholarship Foundation for Marquette University. The HEAR Scholarship Foundation surprised...
Katie Morris, Reporter
April 26, 2018
Students from Taft’s Journalism Programs compete in the annual Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Sectional Journalism Competition. Seven students from Taft’s Newspaper or Yearbook programs headed south to Argo...
Students Organize Rally To End Gun Violence
April 9, 2018
Seniors Participate In NHS Run Prom Fashion Show
April 9, 2018
Seniors Participate In Student Run Prom Fashion Show
April 3, 2018
Trevor Fahnstrom, Reporter
May 31, 2018
Taft Today's Trevor Fahnstrom gets an inside look at New York Knicks' Enes Kanter, and his day at Taft High School. The 6'11 Turkish center finished last season averaging...
Alex Burstein, Reporter
May 18, 2018
The Eagles entered the CPS postseason with a 20-3 record, one of the best in CPS, and drew Clemente for the first playoff game of the 2018 season. Clemente also entered the...
Trevor Fahnstrom, Reporter
May 11, 2018
In their first year competing in the IHSPLA Powerlifting State Championships at New Trier High School, the Taft Eagles made their mark. Sophomore Demetri Georgeopoulos is...
Track and Field: End of Season Update
May 10, 2018
eSports Club Raise $600 From 12 Hour Live Stream
May 4, 2018
Taft Baseball: Coach Pildes Notches 700th Win
May 1, 2018
October 12, 2018
Blue, gray, and white permeate the halls as Eagles rally up for the pep rally on Sept. 28. Students wore their favorite Taft gear and painted faces bringing Eagle pride to the activities held in the gymnasium that afternoon....
Jazzia Barrios, Reporter
May 3, 2018
Syed Zaidi started playing basketball in seventh grade and has loved it ever since. Once he started high school, all he wanted to do was keep playing. But after being cut from Taft’s Boys Basketball team, Zaidi worked hard...
Jazzia Barrios, Reporter
April 4, 2018
In light of the recent mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students all over the world took the streets with the same passion and determination to put a advocate the need to stop the gun violence...
March 20, 2018
March 5, 2018
Former CPS Student Returns As Student Teacher
February 21, 2018
Samuel Burke, Reporter
April 13, 2018
To say the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting was a tragedy is an understatement. No one so young should lose their life, especially in such a horrific way. However, no law abiding gun owner should lose their constitutional...
Alejandro Nunez, Reporter
February 22, 2018
Towards the end of 2017 CPS announced plans to close four Englewood schools and open up one new school in replacement. There are also plans to build two new classic model schools as wells as adding three open enrollment...
Olivia Santelli, Editor
February 22, 2018
Choosing the right path post high school can be difficult for any senior. You have to factor the quality of education you will receive, scholarships and financial aid, on top of a hundred other, stressful, things....
February 22, 2018
Learning The Basics: English, Math, And Torture
December 8, 2017
October 25, 2017
May 31, 2018
Taft High School is presenting The Orchesis Show: Written In The Stars on June 1 at 7:00 pm for students and staff. Entry fee for the show will be $5.00 at the door.
Alejandro Nunez, Reporter
May 29, 2018
Throughout the school many seniors are wrapping up their high school careers and starting to begin their lives into adulthood, eagerly awaiting the graduation ceremony and receiving their hard earned diplomas. Milica...
Alex Prestigiacomo, Editor
May 29, 2018
Taft’s jazz band’s has brought their year to an end with a final concert from the jazz ensemble and jazz lab band. On Tuesday, May 22 the two bands performed for an audience in Taft’s Auditorium a last collection...
Senior Wins Scholarship from the American Academy of Art
May 21, 2018
May 2, 2018
Elementary Classes Visit Taft for We Will Rock You Musical
May 1, 2018