With in person classes canceled, teachers are getting creative in finding ways to teach a range of subjects online, including gym, dance and even architecture.
Host: Mary Dixon
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Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker is ordering residents to continue to stay-at-home through May 30th. Though he is adding a few restrictions while loosening some others starting May 1st.
Host: Mary Dixon
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Divorce and co-parenting is stressful in any environment but what does it look like during a pandemic?
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Carrie Shepherd
Chicago aldermen continue to push back on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s request for emergency spending powers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Becky Vevea
Nurse Margaret Hefferon switched from her job in orthopedic surgery to work in an intensive care unit at Northwestern Hospital. The ICU treats the most severe COVID-19 cases.
Host: Mary Dixon
Producer: Mariah Woelfel
The pandemic has been a challenge for local farmers who have long sold to Chicago businesses and markets. A look at the forecast for those who used to bank on selling their goods to restaurants that are now closed.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Monica Eng
Northwest Indiana officials are worried about their governor’s call to reopen the state in early May before adequate testing has happened. The plan now is to lift the state’s stay at home order after May 1st.
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Reporter: Michael Puente
Suzie and Bob Pschirrer tell us about their daughter, Hayley, who works as a nurse in a level one trauma center where she now mostly sees patients with COVID-19.
Host: Melba Lara
Producer: Joe DeCeault, Lynnea Domienik
Dr. Regina Benjamin, who served under former President Barack Obama, speaks about racial health inequities and COVID-19.
Host: Annie Russell
Reporter: Natalie Moore
Howard Brown Health in Chicago has been doing contract tracing for nearly 20 years, and now it's turning its focus to COVID-19.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Kristen Schorsch
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order has not slowed gun violence in Chicago. Chicago Police Department data show shootings are up 10%.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Patrick Smith
Illinois will now announce which nursing home facilities have had deaths recently relating to COVID-19, and the home of the Chicago Cubs has been repurposed into a temporary food pantry.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Linda Lutton
Lucy Keating first learned to sew on her grandmother’s Singer sewing machine. Today, she’s reviving her skills to make masks for COVID-19.
Host: Melba Lara
Producer: Isabel Carter
For many years, Michael Strautmanis distanced himself from his biological father. But with some encouragement from his half-sister, he re-opened the door.
Producer: Bill Healy
With remote learning starting off this week for many students in Chicago, teachers are finding unique ways to take care of their students.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Sarah Karp, Adriana Cardona Maguigad
Elections scheduled for next week for the mini-boards that oversee each Chicago public school have been postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad
As kindergarten through college students adjust to online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, one course that can be hard to teach remotely is science.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Kate McGee
Price V. Fishback on Werner Troesken’s “The Pox of Liberty” and Our Current Tradeoffs between Quarantines and Economic Freedom
Economist and Press author Price V. Fishback shared with us recently his thoughts on a previous Press book that speaks to our current situation and looks at the political and economic history of how the US government has responded to other pandemics. The current crisis has brought into focus the tradeoffs between quarantines and economic freedom. For an excellent book about the history of these tradeoffs in the United States, read Werner Troesken’s The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Werner traces the history of how governments at all levels of the American federal system dealt with three deadly and recurring diseases: smallpox, yellow fever, and typhoid. All of the issues the world is facing today to avoid horrid deaths are discussed in Werner’s book: inadequate testing, the absence of vaccines, attempts to develop vaccines, tradeoffs between economic losses and quarantines, the uncertainties that the disease might return in the future, and inadequate medical facilities. The situations developed in the nineteenth-century societies when there were much higher death rates, lower incomes, and at best rudimentary medical care. In his preface, Werner says that he started out trying to […]
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