Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot today is releasing a 108-page plan to tackle the city’s long running gun violence problem. Susan Lee, Chicago’s Deputy Mayor For Public Safety, spoke about the new violence reduction plan, which outlines a “public health” ...
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Early voting has started in Illinois. Millions of ballots have been mailed out to voters who already requested them. Still, many people are afraid they won't be able to make sure their vote is counted this year.
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For the first time since 2008, both of Chicago’s Major League Baseball teams are headed to the playoffs. This week the Cubs will face the Miami Marlins at Wrigley Field, and the Sox are traveling to Oakland to take on the A’s.
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Ransomware is a growing problem for anyone on the Internet, it can happen at any time. This episode talks about a report showing how organized ransomware attackers are.
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On Saturday, President Donald Trump nominated appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be the country’s next Supreme Court justice. Barrett serves on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and is a law professor at Notre Dame in Indiana.
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Ed Vulliamy’s memoir Louder than Bombs: A Life with War, Music, and Peace, tells the stories of the artists, songs, and concerts that influenced him most. In his career as a journalist and war correspondent, Vulliamy has traveled the globe, bearing witness to many of the most important political and musical moments of the past fifty years. This playlist plays tribute to just a few of the many songs mentioned in Louder than Bombs. It follows some of Vulliamy’s favorite musical memories: Buying blues records in Chicago, working as an extra in the Vienna State Opera’s production of Aida, drinking coffee with Joan Baez, listening to Jimi Hendrix playing “Machine Gun” at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, and seeing B. B. King perform live in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi in 2013. Listen below or at Spotify Read an excerpt from Literary Hub: Everybody’s Here for Mr. B.B. King in Indianola, Mississippi: Ed Vulliamy Feels the Love for the King of the Blues Ed Vulliamy is a former reporter for the Guardian and Observer. He is the author of Amexica: War Along the Borderline and The War is Dead, Long Live the War—Bosnia: The Reckoning. Louder than Bombs is available now from our website or your […]
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From problems transferring patients to concerns about hospital staffing, WBEZ follows up to see what, if anything, has changed.
Host: Marie Lane, Lisa Labuz
Reporter: Kristen Schorsch
Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago asked over 2,000 parents about their most pressing concerns and challenges when it comes to teens and social media. During the pandemic social media is one of the few ways young people can still have social interact...
Trump is trying to shore up his support with Latinos in Florida and other swing states. In the Chicago area, Latinos says support for Trump is growing.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Michael Puente
Thie week's tools, tips and tricks talks about Scam Bunkers. This website I found, after the fact, from my little scam incident I talked about in Episode 836.
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This school year is looking a lot different than it did during the spring when school buildings were first shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic. Reporter Susie An is following two suburban high school students through a critical year, as part ...
This episode talks about a scam website that I, unfortunately, fell for and made a purchase from. It can happen to anyone, even security professionals and experts.
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Chicago’s homeless already worry about where to safely sleep when the cold arrives. COVID-19 is making that harder.
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Reporter: Mariah Woelfel
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is calling on the city of Chicago to partially defund its police department by hundreds of millions of dollars, to help with violence prevention. Duncan is the founder of a Chicago anti-violence group know...
Contact tracing apps have been developed to help health officials study the spread of the Covid pandemic. There are privacy concerns around the type of data, specifically location, that these apps participate in. Thie episode goes through the types of location collection methods.
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Doctors recommend creating a mental health plan for yourself as we head into winter and coronavirus cases continue to rise. This can include vitamin D supplements, light therapy, and creating safe plans for social interaction.
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