The problem is worse on Chicago's South and West sides, where many schools see more than half their requests for substitute teachers turned down. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad
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In the wake of a second mass shooting in just four days, Chicago's mayor says the city is like others in the U.S. dealing with this problem. But a WBEZ analysis finds Chicago has more than twice as many mass shootings as any other U.S. city. Host: Odet...
Ransomware is rampant and only getting worse. This episode talks about why paying a ransom is a bad idea overall and what it could mean for your business.
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At an Illinois prison, evidence of abuse in a camera blind spot went ignored for years: “Those officers thought … ‘We can completely get away with this.’ ” Host: Lisa Labuz; Reporter: Shannon Heffernan
TikTok is a very popular social media platform but it is also a data collection machine. Recently they gave themselves permission to start collecting biometric data on users. This episode goes into the terms they set for themselves and what it means.
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June 2021 marks a grimly significant anniversary: forty years ago this month, the CDC reported the first US cases of the disease that would come to be known as AIDS. Ross A. Slotten, MD—a Chicago-based family practitioner—has been deeply involved with the fight against HIV/AIDS since the beginning of his medical career in the 1980s. In Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey through the AIDS Crisis—praised by Nature as a “powerful, humane, and stylish memoir”—Slotten provides an intimate yet comprehensive view of the disease’s spread alongside heartfelt portraits of his patients and his own conflicted feelings as a medical professional, drawn from more than thirty years of personal notebooks. We asked Ross a few questions about the book. The acknowledgments page for Plague Years points out that this book emerged from a memoir writing course at StoryStudio Chicago. How is the finished book different from your initial vision for it, and is there anything from earlier drafts that you were sad to have to cut from the final version? Initially, I intended to write something more academic. When I showed an early version of the book to an editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, she thought that a […]
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At The Admiral at the Lake, residents are emerging from life in lockdown. Fitness classes, choir practice and field trips are all back on as normalcy returns. Host: Mary Dixon; Producer: Courtney Kueppers
For WBEZ’s weekly climate conversation, atmospheric scientist Scott Collis explains the predictions for an above-normal hurricane season - and how hurricanes affect us here in Chicago. Host: Lisa Labuz; Producer: Lauren Frost
Managing access of users is a focal point of every organziation. Managing accounts with extensive privileges, llike admin accounts, has always been lacking in most organizations. This epsiode talks about about another case where a fired IT administrator used accounts he knew of to conduct cyber-sabotage.
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Travelers are returning to O'Hare, but the airport's "people mover" is still out of service. Chicago Tribune business reporter Sarah Freishtat details the construction delays plaguing the elevated trains. Host: Lisa Labuz; Producer: Mark LeBien
GitHub once again expands its security posture buy announcing GitHub secret scanner that looks for package registry credentials in code. This episode goes into the details of what this is and what the future of coding looks like.
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Chicago and Illinois move to Phase Five reopening on Friday. Dr. Burnett-Zeigler, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with Northwestern University, details how to handle it all. Host: Araceli Gomez Aldana; Producer: Lauren Frost
The University of Chicago Press along with the University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Cornell University Press, the Ohio State University Press, Northwestern University Press, and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) are excited to announce the recipients of the 2021-2022 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowships. These fellowships are generously funded by a four-year, $1,205,000 grant awarded to the University of Washington Press from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the continued development and expansion of the pipeline program designed to diversify academic publishing by offering apprenticeships in acquisitions departments. This second grant builds on the success of the initial 2016 grant from the Mellon Foundation, which funded the first cross-press initiative of its kind in the United States to address the marked lack of diversity in the academic publishing industry. Please join us in welcoming the 2021-2022 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellows: Chad M. Attenborough joins the University of Washington Press from Vanderbilt University, where he is a PhD candidate studying black responses to the British abolition of the slave trade in the Caribbean. While completing his research, Chad worked for Vanderbilt University Press as a graduate assistant where his passion for publishing developed in earnest and […]
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Student athletes at Illinois colleges and universities may soon be able to sign endorsement deals. The Student Athlete Endorsement Act passed both the Illinois House and Senate and awaits Governor Pritzker's signature. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Chery...
A year ago, Chicago activist Xavier Ramey talked to WBEZ about the civil unrest following George Floyd’s murder. Natalie Moore followed up with him to get his thoughts on racial progress, the future of the city and the increase of diversity trainings i...
Apple held its annual World Wide Developer Conference and once again announced several new security and privacy improvements. Thie episode goes through the top new features that are coming in iOS15 later this year.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to make it easier for businesses to get storefront signs. Under a proposal submitted last month, a permit could be issued without a full City Council vote. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Becky Vevea