Chicago Arts and Communication magazine was first published in 1991, produced annually as a class project. Its content remains different from other campus magazines as it does not focus on traditional student life or literary works, but rather, explores subjects taught at Columbia College Chicago and how these disciplines are practiced in Chicago.
The magazine name changed to Echo in 1997, primarily because, as its faculty adviser stated, its earlier name was a "typographical mouthful". Remaining focused on arts and communication, the magazine continues to explore campus and Chicago areas of intersection, delivering campus, local, national, and international topics of interest to the Columbia community twice a year and continues to be entirely written, photographed, and edited by current students of the College.
This award-winning publication is now published online and current editions are found: Echo Magazine website.
If you have physical issues of Echo or Chicago Art and Communication that are not held here, please consider contributing them to the collection. For more details, contact College Archives at Columbia College Chicago
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Echo, Summer/Fall 2003
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Cover Articles: Rush Hour: Has Arena Football's Time Arrived?; The Painful Price of Boob Jobs; How to Graduate Without Going Broke. 59 pages.
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Echo, Winter/Spring 2003
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Cover Articles: Hip Service: Belly Dancing Spices Up the Local Restaurant Scene; The Rubdown on Bathhouses; Top 10 Campus Peeves; The Art of Nude Modeling; Japanese Tattoos Deciphered; Exposing Chicago's Sweatshops. 60 pages.
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Echo, Summer 2002
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Cover Articles: South Asian Women Find Hope at the Apna Ghar Domestic Abuse Shelter; After Midnight: Meet the People Who Love, Work and Play While the City Sleeps. 66 pages.
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Echo, Winter 2002
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Cover Articles: The Domino Effect of Gentrification in Humboldt Park; Hush Hush: Eat, Drink, Shop, Get Your Eyebrows Plucked; 19 Fascinating Places Too Good to Keep Secret. 68 pages.
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Echo, 2000-2001
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Cover Articles: Chicago Thrift; On An Indie Film Set; Millennium Park; Day in the Life of a Stripper; The Magic of Jim O'Rourke; Looking for Love.com. Editor-In-Chief: Marti Yarbrough. 84 pages.
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Echo, 2001
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Cover Articles: Girl X: Brutalized By Her Attacker, Ignored by the Media; Stars Behind the Bars; Seven Hot Musicians Talk About Why They Don't Quite Their Day Jobs. Editor-In-Chief: Karen E. Armijo. 100 pages.
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Echo, 2000
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Cover Articles: The Jazz Scene-Then and Now; Crumbly Splendor: Chicago's Ballrooms; Celt Thunder: Trinity Irish Dancers; and much, much more. Editor: Elke Oberg. 84 pages.
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Echo, 1999
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Cover Articles: The Lady Vanished: Murder, Mobsters and a 40-Year- Old Mystery; Santeria's Secret Rituals; "D" is for Diva: Female Impersonator Tells All!; Trust is the Flava: Chicago Hip Hop's Bustin' Out. Editor: Christopher Keech. 52 pages.
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Echo, 1997
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Cover Articles: Playboy Hef's Heiress; Aerosoul's Concrete Art Goes Canvas; Old Town, New Town, Whose Town?; Ouch! Body Piercing: Ancient Art or Modern Fetish?. Editor: Robert England. 76 pages.
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Chicago Arts and Communication, 1996
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine entitled Chicago Arts and Communication, later changed to Echo magazine. Cover Articles: Chicago's Fine Arts Building; Pilsen Artist Alejancro Romero; Music of Wanafrica; The Third Shift; Streetwise Vendore; The Criminal Mind; The Greater Scheme of Things. Editor-In-Chief: Susan Naese. 93 pages.
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Chicago Arts and Communication, 1995
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine entitled Chicago Arts and Communication, later changed to Echo magazine. Cover Articles: The El; Visit with Mary Zimmerman; Photographer Archie Lieberman; Scenes from a Club Kid's life; Three Famous Architects Speak Out; Chicago Designers. Editor-In-Chief: Georgine Panko. 100 pages.
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Chicago Arts and Communication, 1994
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine entitled Chicago Arts and Communication, later changed to Echo magazine. Cover Articles: All About Blues Legend Buddy Guy; The TV Talk Shows; What's New in African-American Comedy; At Intermission with Daniel Barenboim; Betting on the Hollywood Casino; Chicago Coffeehouses; In Search of a Psychic; Who Goes to the Admiral Theater?; Last Days of Old Maxwell Street. Editor-In-Chief: David Gabriel. 98 pages.
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Chicago Arts and Communication, 1993
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine entitled Chicago Arts and Communication, later changed to Echo magazine. Cover Articles: Gwendolyn Brooks; The Future of the 10 O'Clock News; Confessions of a Female Rock Singer; Pilsen; Learning to be Funny at Second City; Drawing Blood: Jack Higgins; Cahnnel 11 Fights On; Saturday Night with a Jazz Legend; Sports Radio; Jewelry as Art; Inside an Underground Comic Strip; Balley Chicago; and more... Editor-In-Chief: Carrie Miller. 92 pages.
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Chicago Arts and Communication, 1992
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine entitled Chicago Arts and Communication, later changed to Echo magazine. Cover Articles: In Pursuit of Roger Ebert; A&A: John Callaway; Inside the Chicago Symphony; Diary of a TV Intern; Street Musicians; Night Club Adventures; A Portrait of Author Leon Forrest; Life a a Film Extra; Lation Theater; The Jukebox Channel; Aunted House Tours. Editor-In-Chief: Tova Bode. 100 pages.
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Chicago Arts and Communication, 1991
Columbia College Chicago
Student-produced magazine entitled Chicago Arts and Communication, later changed to Echo magazine. Cover Article: The City's Creative Talents: Poetry; Film; Theater; Radio; Art; Television; Music; Fiction; Journalism; Video; Music; Art; Dance; Photography. Editor-In-Chief: Muriel L. Whetstone. 62 pages.