The coronavirus pandemic has canceled all the big events in the Chicago area. On one block in the northwest suburbs, neighbors have found a way to be together for a little bit, even while they keep apart.
Host: Annie Russell
Reporter: Dan Mihalopoulos
Not everyone can work from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Some are providing essential services during the outbreak, but they're living on the margins.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Natalie Moore
Meydi Guzman Rivas has been living with her school counselor for over a month now. She moved in after being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Now, she’s hopeful she’ll be given asylum.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Susie An
WBEZ News spent the weekend covering the COVID-19 pandemic. Since most of us were likely trying to relax and forget about this stuff for a short time, a quick catch up on the latest from Illinois.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Dan Mihalopoulos
Many schools are using Zoom for online class during the COVID-19 closures. And like many things on the internet, racist trolls have followed.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Kate McGee
Retired Dallas Police Chief David Brown recounts his life and policing philosophy in a memoir he wrote after retiring. Brown has been tapped to be Chicago’s next top cop.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Patrick Smith
The 2020 Summer Olympics have a new start date, and while the Games will go on some local Olympic hopefuls have been impacted by the delay.
Host: Lisa Labuz
Reporter: Cheryl Raye Stout
Contemporary debate around inequality is centered on a common theme: capital. Capital, broadly speaking, is wealth. People who have capital enjoy more leverage, security, and flexibility in their economic lives. Capital in the Nineteenth Century is a history of how and where capital was originated and consolidated in the United States’ first century as an independent nation. It is an utterly original and painstaking work of economic history, one that illustrates the power of the field to inform our thorniest debates in the present. Here, the eminent economist Claudia Goldin recounts the origins of the project: an unexpected (and not entirely organized) mailing from the late Robert Gallman. In August 1998 a large envelope arrived from Bob Gallman, who was then a distinguished economic historian at the University of North Carolina. Inside was an unwieldy set of chapters that Bob was asking me to consider for the National Bureau of Economic Research monograph series, Long Term Factors in Economic Development, for which I served as editor for almost three decades. Bob and I had no prior discussions of the book he was proposing, which is not to say I was surprised by the manuscript’s arrival since I knew Bob had […]
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As residents are staying at home, the U.S. Census Bureau is reminding households to fill out their 2020 census forms. A look at how the decennial count affects how everyone does business.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Esther Yoon-Ji Kang
A former Dallas police chief who was thrust into the national spotlight following a shocking tragedy is slated to be the next leader of the Chicago Police Department.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Patrick Smith
Illinois hospitals are scrambling to beef up their staffs as they prepare for a surge in coronavirus cases. Experts say the number of COVID-19 cases in the state could peak in the next month.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Mariah Woelfel
A group of high school broadcast students are continuing their regular TV news show while school is closed.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Susie An
In Illinois, there are nearly 50 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at one DuPage County nursing home. Six residents there have died from the disease.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad
The coronavirus pandemic is affecting the funeral home industry. With CDC guidelines restricting mass gatherings and health officials urging social distancing, services are being altered.
Host: Mary Dixon
Interviewee: Barbara Kemmis
About 40% of households in Illinois have filled out the census. That’s higher than the nationwide figure, but still short of the count the state is hoping for.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Esther Yoon-Ji Kang
All across the country workers are worried about making ends meet during Coronavirus shut downs. A look at how Chicagoland workers worried about their bills have been managing.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Patrick Smith
While the new coronavirus pandemic hasn’t derailed college admissions decisions, it is raising a lot of questions for Chicago area students as they decide where to attend.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Kate McGee
CPS announced that it won’t move instruction completely online when remote learning starts on April 13th. That’s because there are big differences not just in who has technology, but also who knows how to use it
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Sarah Karp