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This epsiodecame in from a listener suggestion. The question was around the security risks and concerns with contactless credit and debit cards. This epsiode talks about how contactless and mobile device payments work and the risks associated with them. 

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"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett is responding to critics who question his report about being attacked in downtown Chicago last month.

"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett is responding to critics who question his report about being attacked in downtown Chicago last month.

Over the past decade, the cost of water in Chicago has tripled, causing over 150,000 water shutoffs since 2007, mostly in low-income, mostly black and mostly Latino neighborhoods.

Loyola prevents student reporters from talking to professors directly, requiring them to go through the school’s media relations office.

Bauer was mourned as a man of great integrity and joy at the Thompson Center ceremony near where he was killed.

The Cubs are working with Sinclair, which is known for a conservative bent to its local news.

Voluntarily sending your DNA to a company to be 'tested' is the one of the most unsettling privacy trends today. This episode talks about this ridiculous service and how to delete your data from these sites. 

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The plan would bump the $8.25-an-hour rate to $9.25 on Jan. 1. After moving to $10 on July 1, 2020, it would increase $1 each Jan. 1 until 2025.

Bauer was the first of four Chicago police officers killed in the line of duty in 2018.

The hack dump called Collection 1 contained over 700 million records. Now Collection 2-5 have been seen in the wild and have over 2.2 billion records. This episode talks about this situation and reminds you the importance of basic security practices you can be doing to keep you accounts safer. 

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Lawyers for Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago cop who killed Laquan McDonald, blast prosecutor and Illinois’ attorney general for challenging sentence.

This week, the Illinois Holocaust Museum in north suburban Skokie opened a special exhibit that sheds light into the horrors of selling, buying, and trading human beings and the financial profit of domestic enslavement between 1808 and 1865.

The exhib...

The new initiative was created to address “root causes” of criminal justice problems, including equity and opportunity.

In September 2017, Chicago Police Officer Regine Perpignan was hospitalized for depression, relatives said.

Perpignan was a 26-year veteran of the department. She was 54, with two daughters and a granddaughter.

Her brother and sister-in...

Firms that gave to mayoral hopeful Susana Mendoza are allegedly “front companies” for investors who profit handsomely from a state program.

The former Congress Parkway has officially been changed to Ida B. Wells Drive — a move supporters say is long overdue.