Allure Dyer ended up at a Chicago high school she didn't want to attend, but this valedictorian found it to be a place of unexpected opportunities.
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No gym? No problem. Competitive bodybuilder Daniel Zhou says significant others make great weightlifting equipment during quarantine.
Host: Melba Lara
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Along with restaurants, businesses like salons, non-essential retail stores, and gyms are opening back up under tight restrictions across the state Friday. Patrons said nothing about returning to their favorite businesses felt normal.
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Certain businesses are reopening in Illinois, including restaurants. Some essential workers are worried about the influx of thousands of new people they'll be interacting with.
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Reporter: Michael Puente
Data kept by the state show that in 80% of COVID-19 cases, the patient’s job is unknown — vital to preventing potential future outbreaks.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Kristen Schorsch
Salons preparing to re-open are putting state-mandated protocols in place: temperature checks, social distancing, face masks. But some stylists don’t feel safe to face clients.
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Reporter: Mariah Woelfel
College prep usually ramps up during junior year. But with no in-person school and SATs postponed, anxiety among the class of 2021 grows.
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Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad
Chicago renters who rely on their landlords to pay for water services have few options when the water has been shut off by the city.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: María Inés Zamudio
A valedictorian from the south suburbs wants to help girls of color get into the sciences.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Susie An
Millions may recover from COVID-19's physical symptoms, but the anxiety of 'what-ifs' may haunt us for some time.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Kate McGee
Students are taking Advanced Placement tests from home now. Can the same be done for the SAT college entrance exam?
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Susie An
Working parents are flummoxed about how they're supposed to go back to work if daycares are still closed.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Mariah Woelfel
For the first time ever, Chicago Public School students won’t be allowed to graduate without a plan for what they will do after high school.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Sarah Karp
How has the pandemic affected our stress levels and how does that translate into what hobbies or activities we partake in?
Host: Mary Dixon
Speaker: Amy Bohnert
More people could be asked to collect their own sample for COVID-19 tests... but are they accurate?
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Kate McGee
Chicago and Illinois restaurants offer ideas on how they can open more quickly as the city and state offer reopening plans.
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Reporter: Monica Eng
Pandemic Participation: Christopher M. Kelty on Isolation and Participation in a Public Health Crisis
Drawing from ideas in his book, The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories, Christopher M. Kelty discusses how participation changes during a pandemic and what it means for the future. I make a provocative claim in The Participant: To treat participation as general—and democracy as a more specific apparatus to which it responds—amounts to asserting that participation is prior to democracy. Participation is not a simple component of democracy, but something problematic enough that things like representative parliamentary democracy, federal constitutions, secret ballots, and regimes of audit and regulation are oriented toward dealing with too much, too little, or the wrong kind of participation. This is not a conventional way of looking at democracy, and it will not fit well with a political theory tradition in which participation plays only a bit part in the great historical drama of democracy. I think, however, there is something to be gained by reversing this relation. Instead, one can view participation as a longstanding problem of the relation between persons and collectives, and see liberal democracy as existing in an intermediate temporality where institutions, theories, constitutions, legal systems are in a process of steady transformation. The apparatus we call “liberal representative […]
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