Updated at 1:10 p.m.A judge appointed a special prosecutor Friday to investigate the decision by Cook County prosecutors to dismiss all charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of lying to the police by claiming he was the victim of a rac...
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It’s graduation season for people of all ages, from 5-year-olds moving on to kindergarten to adults working toward a college degree. WBEZ’s education desk visited four graduations in the Chicago area this year, seeking stories and wisdom of 2019 grads ...
Six Democrats in Illinois’ Congressional delegation are now calling for impeachment proceedings against President Trump.
This week's tools, tips and tricks talks about Microsoft VSCode. Whether you are a developer or have played around writing scripts, in cybersecurity you will eventually need to work with code. This epsiodetalks about VSCode, where and when you would use it and why you should have it in your toolbox.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday returned to a meeting of the Police Board she once led and said the city’s mental health services for its police officers are “woefully inadequate” and called out the city’s top cop for failing to lead on the is...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday returned to a meeting of the Police Board she once led and said the city’s mental health services for its police officers are “woefully inadequate” and called out the city’s top cop for failing to lead on the is...
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Miguel Pérez Jr. locked himself in a hotel room for an entire weekend in one of the most dangerous cities along the border between the United States and Mexico.
A Mexican native, Pérez, 41, grew...
The police station at the corner of Pershing and California on Chicago’s Southwest Side looks like any other station. It’s brick and stone, with an arched window over a wide door. But this police station is supposed to be different. It only processes j...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has created an office and selected an advisory panel to help bolster the state’s preparations for the 2020 census.
Two new studies from the Field Museum say that urban areas, including Chicago, could grow millions of milkweed stems to help grow the plunging monarch population.
Two new studies from the Field Museum say that urban areas, including Chicago, could grow millions of milkweed stems to help grow the plunging monarch population.
Studies of immigration to the United States have traditionally focused on a few key states and urban centers, but recent shifts in nonwhite settlement mean that these studies no longer paint the whole picture. Many Latino newcomers are flocking to places like the Southeast, where typically few such immigrants have settled, resulting in rapidly redrawn communities. In this historic moment, Jennifer A. Jones brings forth an ethnographic look at changing racial identities in one Southern city: Winston-Salem, North Carolina. To get a better sense of what inspired Jones to focus her book on this particular city, we sent her a few questions recently about her research. How did you come to follow the line of research that forms the backbone of The Browning of the New South? In some ways, I came to the research that forms the backbone of The Browning of the New South by accident. I consider myself a race scholar, and for my MA research I had done some ethnographic research on group identity formation among multiracials. I was really interested in how race gets made and wanted to pursue another project that helped me explore that process. I came to Winston-Salem to do research because […]
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Mozilla continues it's push to be the best security and privacy centric internet company. News has come out that Mozilla is working on a premium version of the Firefox browser. This episode talks about the details and the game changer this could be.
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A survey of 3,000 City Colleges of Chicago students shows more than two-thirds are struggling to feed or house themselves while also working towards a degree.And many students facing these challenges aren’t tapped into as many public assistance program...
While Chicago’s white population has grown since 2010, it’s declined by more than 220,000 in the suburbs, new census data shows.
While Chicago residents are being warned about tax hikes, Cook County government likely won’t be piling on the pain.
There are no new fees or taxes for county residents expected in 2020, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said Wednesday as...
The Illinois State Board of Education on Wednesday said it could take as much as $7 billion to properly fund all public schools in the state.The state is required to contribute $350 million annually to boost kindergarten through high school funding und...
A Chicago teacher has developed a toolkit to help school communities to recognize and confront white nationalism among students.