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Chicago’s NASCAR race raises questions on security, parks

Critics want to know who will pay for security and physical damage to downtown. But the bigger question is: Is anyone clamoring for this? Host: Melba Lara; Reporters: Lauren Frost and Mark Guarino

Episode 1323 – Year end Hygiene – Your Accounts

As this week's home hygiene series continues this week's episode talks about your accounts. Your credentials across the Internet are the gateways to your financial, healthcare and personal information. It's a good time to get control of those. Be aware...

Jury awards CPD whistleblower Isaac Lambert nearly $1 million

The veteran detective was demoted for speaking out about a shooting of an unarmed teen by an off-duty officer in 2017. Lambert’s lawyers had sought as much as $2 million. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Chip Mitchel and Cianna Greaves

Episode 1322 – Year End Home Hygiene – Your Devices

As we continue with the home hygiene series this episode talks about your devices. This time consuming but important task will help you get visibility and understanding to what is connected in your home. Be aware, be safe. Support the show and get acce...

Episode 1321 – Year End Home Hygiene – Your Network

The end of the year is a good time to focus on your home IT. The next few episodes will talk about some tips on what you can do with your home IT to help clean it up and make it more secure for the year to come. We'll start with the network. Be aware, ...

Chicago’s Field Museum tells the story of the Calumet region

A new exhibit at the Field Museum highlights areas not often associated with each other, parts of Chicago’s South Side and Northwest Indiana known as the Calumet Region. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Michael Puente

CPS spent $308M on school technology. Now what?

Chicago Public Schools lacks a cohesive plan for using computers in the classroom or a reliable way to track them, WBEZ and Chalkbeat found. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Sarah Karp

Read an Excerpt from “States of Plague” by Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris

In their new book, States of Plagues: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris examine Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. Both personal and eloquently written, this book uncovers for us the mysterious way

Embracing Hygge could stave of Chicago’s winter blues

Have you heard about the Danish expression of hygge? We talk to an expert who will tell us how to incorporate its principles into our our lives this winter. Host: Araceli Gomez-Aldana; Reporter: Araceli Gomez-Aldana

United Flight 553 crashed in Chicago 50 years ago

The day United Flight 553 crashed in Chicago “was just like someone dropped a big, huge anvil on the ground.” Host: Mary Dixon: Reporter: Cianna Greaves

The other Michigan Avenue in Roseland is poised for a comeback

The city of Chicago is asking for ideas on ‘the other Michigan Avenue’ in the Roseland neighborhood. Planning officials will put together development teams to pitch housing and retail on the commercial strip. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Natalie Moore

Read an Excerpt from “Atmospheres of Projection” by Guiliana Bruno

In her new book, Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media, Giuliana Bruno brings together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology to consider the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. Looking deep into our fascination with projection and atmosphere, Bruno traverses psychoanalysis, environmental philosophy, architecture, the history