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Charter School Says In-Person Classes Boosts Grades

As Chicago Public Schools prepares to resume in-person classes early next year, North Lawndale College Prep says it’s working for their students.

Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad

Hospital Capacity Data Show Gaps In COVID-19 Treatment

Newly released data shows disparities that hospitals serving communities of color have felt for months - small Chicago hospitals were full with patients, while big hospitals had beds to spare.

Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Kristen Schorsch

Episode 886 – Bank Employee Sells Customer Data, Don’t Forget About The Inside

Statistically speaking the inside threat is almost the same as the external threats. Don't forget about the inside. This episode talks about a story of a bank employee selling customer data. 

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Six Questions with Rachel Hope Cleves, author of “Unspeakable”

What do we do with the life of a person who was celebrated in their own time, but whose actions, violating what are now seen as firm moral and legal boundaries, appall us today? The life of once-renowned twentieth-century author Norman Douglas raises this question in a particularly stark form. In her new book, Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality, Rachel Hope Cleves takes a clear-eyed look at Douglas’s life, what it can tell us how societal standards change with time, and what we can learn from a better understanding of those shifts. We asked her a few questions about the book. Norman Douglas is far less famous now than he was in his lifetime. How did you first learn about him? Believe it or not, this very serious book began with a little light vacation reading. In 2013-2014 I spent a sabbatical year in Paris with my family and we bought discount airline tickets to Naples for the kids’ spring break. A friend recommended that we visit Capri while we were there. I didn’t know anything about the island, so in my typical nerdy fashion I looked for books to read and discovered that there was a 1917 bestseller […]

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Episode 885 – Ransomware Attacks Starting A New Tactic To Harass Victims

Ransomware attacks are rising and this should not change any time soon. However, attackers are using new tactics to harass their victims into paying. This episode talks about this new approach. 

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COVID-19 Vaccine: Convincing Chicago’s Black Residents

With only 42 % of Black adults in a national study saying they’re willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, Chicago clinics serving communities of color see work ahead.

Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Kristen Schorsch

Not Every Death Is A Tragedy

Mike Grover has lived with an aggressive brain cancer for more than a decade. At StoryCorps Chicago, Mike spoke to his wife Lea about confronting death.

Producer: Bill Healy

$7.2M Chase Grant To Boost Chicago Home Ownership

A JPMorgan Chase grant will look to help Black and Latino families become homeowners after decades of disinvestment in Chicago neighborhoods.

Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Linda Lutton

Episode 884 – Amazon AWS Suffered A Major Outage, What Can You Do About These Events

Amazon AWS suffered a multi-hour outage that impacted many businesses. This episode talks about the things you can do when moving to the cloud and creating a plan to deal with outages like this that are out of your control.

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Read an Excerpt from “The Teaching Archive”

As students and teachers look ahead to another semester of remote instruction, many are also thinking back fondly to gathering in classrooms for lively collaborations and discussions. With The Teaching Archive, Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan turn their attention to the classroom, reminding us that the classroom has long been a site of innovation and that the contributions of students themselves are far more intertwined in the history of literary studies than we might imagine. With their innovative new book, Buurma and Heffernan open up “the teaching archive”—the syllabuses, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments—of notable critics and scholars, showing how students helped write foundational works of literary criticism and how English classes at community colleges and HBCUs pioneered the reading methods and expanded canons that came only belatedly to the Ivy League. The Teaching Archive rewrites what we know about the discipline and will be an invaluable resource as we enter a new decade of instruction and scholarship. Read on for an excerpt from the introduction of The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study by Rachel Saagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan or click here to read the introduction in full. A New Syllabus In this […]

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Epsiode 883 – Half Of All Docker Images Have At Least One Critical Vulnerability

A shocking report has been released detailing that over half of the 4 million containers on Docker Hub have at least one critical vulnerability. This episode goes into the details of this report and what you need to put in place when using 3rd party components. 

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Inside A Madigan Loyalist’s Lucrative Deal With ComEd

Long before he landed a side gig at the power company, Ed Moody was a star election worker for Illinois Democratic boss Michael Madigan.

Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Dan Mihalopoulos

Metra Pilots ‘Bike Car’ In Effort To Boost Ridership

Ridership on public transit has plummeted during the pandemic. With so many businesses rethinking the need for offices, transit agencies like suburban rail service, Metra, are thinking about how to look different and attract new riders post COVID.

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What The AIDS Crisis Can Teach Us About COVID-19

Jennifer Brier is a History and Gender & Women's Studies Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In a recent Washington Post column, she writes in the midst of a the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s important to remember and reflect on the very real...

Black Barbers Train To Help With Black Men’s Stress

A national initiative called the Confess Project is training Chicago barbers to become front-line supports for the mental health of their customers.

Host: Susie An
Reporter: Jarrell Hightower

Episode 882 – Latest Ransomware Attack Has Shut Down A School System

Ransomware can cause damage beyond your files. This episode talks about a ransomware attack that has shutdown an entire school system.

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The Making of a Magazine: A Dialogue with the Team Behind “The Point”

Highlighting the first decade of Chicago-based philosophical magazine The Point, The Opening of the American Mind brings together responses to some of the most significant events and issues of the last ten years. We spoke with some of The Point’s team to hear more about the new book, their current work, and how this whole project got started. To learn more about The Point, check out their website: https://thepointmag.com/ First of all, could you each say what your roles are at The Point? Jonny Thakkar: I am one of the editors. This involves a mixture of tasks. Sometimes I’m the lead editor on a piece, in charge of communication with an author, and other times I’m supporting the lead editor of a piece by giving line edits or a second opinion. I have to be on the lookout for potential writers and also for themes and topics that we might want to cover in some way. Finally, I’m also involved in strategic decisions regarding the development of the magazine and its place in the cultural landscape. Anastasia Berg: Like Jonny, I’m also an editor. I solicit and edit pieces for the print magazine and our website and am involved in […]

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ComEd Dumps Email Cache In Legislative Madigan Probe

The emails reveal that a Cook County elected official and key ally to House Speaker Michael Madigan got secret payments from the utility.

Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Dave McKinney