As healthcare workers continue to fight against all odds during the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health professionals are asking: how can doctors and nurses protect themselves?
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Mariah Woelfel
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Patricia Rodriguez started feeling sick in mid-March just before the Illinois primary. She shares what it’s like to recover from COVID-19 by yourself.
Host: Annie Russell
Reporter: Kate McGee
The city will measure COVID-19 testing capacity, hospital bed availability and infection rates to decide when to fully reopen.
Host: Greta Johnsen
Reporter: Becky Vevea
Some camps have already canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and others are rethinking their programs to ensure camper safety.
Host: Greta Johnsen
Reporter: Susie An
As WBEZ gathers personal dispatches from folks enduring the coronavirus pandemic, Tamara Frankel explains what it’s like to be an expectant mom right now.
Host: Greta Johnsen
Producer: Candace Mittel Kahn, Joe DeCeault
WBEZ is sharing stories from Chicago area teachers, parents and students. Today we hear a story from Eileen Limon, a high school valedictorian from Chicago’s Southwest Side.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Adriana Cardona-Maguigad
After Lightfoot homed in on the West Side, one teen said “black and brown youth aren’t going to listen … if she is only coming after them.”
Host: Greta Johnsen
Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad
Could months without physical contact harm parents’ chances of reuniting with their children?
Host: Greta Johnsen
Reporter: Natalie Moore
In Cook County, the ZIP codes most impacted by the coronavirus are not among those receiving the highest rates of testing, a WBEZ analysis shows.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Maria Ines Zamudio
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says he will take a more regionalized approach to opening the state’s economy. He unveiled a plan Tuesday that divides the state into four regions.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Tony Arnold
Some bartenders and customers talk about missing the community they’ve created at their neighborhood bars.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Carrie Shepherd
Joseph Calamia recently joined the Press as senior editor in the Books Division, acquiring new titles in the physical sciences, mathematics, oceanography, and digital studies. Joe came to us from Yale University Press, where he spent ten years, most recently, as senior editor for science and technology. We’ve been excited to welcome him not only to the Press but to Chicago, and by way of introduction, we put together some questions about his interests. What are you looking for in a book, and what kind of project gets you excited? Editors are excitable—I want to get excited. But, when pursuing a book for publication, I must answer two questions. First, what’s new? Second, who will read this? The first question considers originality; the second, audience. I should say that my answer to this question is not original. When reading a proposal, I hear these questions in my head. At commissioning meetings, I hear them from colleagues. I should also say that the two questions are connected. One of the many great things about working at a university press is the encouragement to create a program that includes books for different audiences, including popular, course, and academic readers. For public-facing or […]
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Doctors warn that introducing new people to your household is risky, but it could be doable with strict rules.
Host: Susie An
Reporter: Monica Eng
Chicago adopts a tougher approach that’s sparking a debate about whether now is the time to worry if students are on track academically.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Susie An
Safia Rasheed runs 'Your Bountiful Harvest' on Chicago’s South Side. She shares what its been like trying to sustain community supported agriculture during the coronavirus pandemic.
Host: Melba Lara
Producer: Joe DeCeault
An easing of COVID-19 restrictions allowed garden centers and nurseries to reopen, just in time for warm weather and pent-up demand.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Linda Lutton
Remote learning has been a struggle for Illinois due to COVID-19. In Chicago Public Schools, students who don’t speak English at home are among those who struggle most.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad
Guilty Until Proven Innocent?: Marianne Mason, editor of “The Discourse of Police Interviews,” on the Guilt-Presumptive Nature of Interrogations
“Step up and tell the truth.” “No more lies.” “This is your chance to tell us what really happened.” Who hasn’t rooted for a TV detective when they’ve said these lines in an interrogation or when the detective managed to convince someone not to seek counsel? While these lines and manipulations have been played off on procedural shows as fairly benign, they actually represent an interrogation method that, instead of presuming innocence like the US justice system is meant to, actually presumes guilt and focuses on soliciting a confession. In her chapter in The Discourse of Police Interviews, “The Guilt-Presumptive Nature of Custodial Interrogations in the United States,” editor Marianne Mason investigates this interrogation style’s history, techniques, and tactics as well as loopholes past the Miranda warning and suggests areas for further research. We invited her to reflect on her chapter and bring to light its key points and place it within The Discourse of Police Interviews as a whole. It is past time that police interviews undergo such analysis and scrutiny. Since the early 2000s I have been researching language and the law. I have examined language use in covertly-taped conversations of drug cartel members, such as the Cali Cartel, the bilingual […]
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