The Spirit

Saint Ignatius Hockey Hosts Fundraiser Prior to Loyola Academy Game

Jack Conroy, Dane Skukan, and Yusouf Hakim • December 16, 2024

The Saint Ignatius Varsity Gold hockey team returned to the ice in September to begin their 2024-2025 season. While the team has many important games coming up, they are playing for a more important...

Building Strength: Insights into the Girls Tennis Team

Mia Gentile • December 12, 2024

Saint Ignatius is home to thirty five different sports teams split between fall, winter and spring. Each sport varies in intensity and mental power. However, girls tennis is especially challenging, and...

111th Annual Chicago Christmas Tree Lighting Brings Holiday Cheer to Millennium Park

Andres Sanchez • December 12, 2024

The holiday season has begun and Chicago is ready to celebrate! On Friday, November 22, the city hosted its 111th Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at Millennium Park. This year’s 53-foot Colorado...

Seniors’ Last Chance to Play Polo State

Joseph Bendig • April 4, 2023

Whitney's stands were in an uproar as Ignatius' side fell quiet. Polo players on both sides got out of the pool and lined up to shake hands. One Whitney player said "good season" instead of "good game"...

How Far is Too Far?

January 6, 2022

It’s no secret that social media encourages its users to perform crazy stunts in the hopes of getting famous—or infamous. However, we may be reaching the point where we have to ask ourselves if losing...

Con: Lunch Outside

Anabella Van Kempen '23 • January 6, 2022

Ignatius students can all agree that eating outside is a gift. The field and bleachers are buzzing everyday. How could there ever be a downside to lunch outside? Ms. Lonergan completely agrees that lunch...

Mental Health

Honor McAlpine ‘22 • January 6, 2022

As a new school year starts, students and teachers are excited to go back to school with a full Wolfpack schedule. However, being back in school is not what many students thought it would be. There is...

Pro: “I Feel Like I’m in a Coming of Age Movie”

Fiona Gawne '23 • January 6, 2022

As students, we attend seven fifty minute periods a day. For someone with a full schedule, that doesn’t allow much downtime. The only break that many students get all day is a twenty-five minute break...

Con: “Totally-Vaccinated Population is Not Necessary”

Mercedes Curran '23 • January 6, 2022

According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, any private institution is within its legal rights to require its members to be vaccinated, and any local or state government is allowed to...

Class of 2021 Superlatives

Ava Nelligan ‘21, Editor-in-Chief • May 15, 2021

Are Frappuccinos and High-Schoolers a Good Mix?

Erika Lenhardt ‘23 • May 2, 2021

Let us take an intermission from coronavirus news and politics for a brief moment and shift the topic to a beverage that we all love: Starbucks Frappuccinos. A Frappuccino is blended coffee combined with...