Segregation is a hallmark of Chicago.
The city boasts its diversity — blacks, whites, and Latinos each make up roughly a third of Chicago’s population — but residents tend to live in separate neighborhoods. The result is racial inequities in hous...
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Harris would be the first woman to hold the presidency and the second African-American if she succeeds.
GitHub is shfiting their services for the better to position itself to be the numnber one repository service on the Internet. Their latest change is huge if you a developer. GitHub now offers unlimited private repositories and they throw in a few other features. This epsiode talks about this move and why you should take advantage of this.
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Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown appears poised to be kicked off Chicago’s mayoral ballot, potentially winnowing the crowded field down to 13.On Friday night, a hearing officer at the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners recommended th...
The complaint claimed the school knew that a former teacher was allegedly sexually abusing male students.
In one of his first acts as Illinois governor, Democrat JB Pritzker on Friday ordered a sweeping review of health and safety at all state-run veterans’ homes, following successive Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks at a facility in downstate Quincy.
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From volunteer opportunities, to basketball, to movies, Chicago is buzzing with ways to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Last week, the Chronicle of Higher Education featured a piece by Steven Brint arguing that we are in a golden age for higher education. Herb Childress, the author of our forthcoming book The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission, respectfully disagrees. We invited him to lay out his differences with Brint in the essay below. A particularly vexing form of disagreement arises when multiple observers see the same phenomena, but their vantage points lead them to describe them differently from each other. This is the position I find myself in after reading Steven Brint’s nicely researched, factually accurate article “Is This Higher Education’s Golden Age?” (Chronicle Review, January 11, 2019). I take no issue at all with what he says, but the things he sees aren’t the same thing I see, because we’re standing in different places. In overview, Brint’s article makes three basic claims. First, the enterprise of higher education is larger than it has ever been, when measured across a broad array of financial and participatory indices. Second, the rapidly increasing cost of the product hasn’t kept an increasing proportion of Americans from buying it (and in the case of graduate degrees, […]
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This week's tools, tips and tricks episode is about an open source Security Information Event Management (SIEM) system. GrayLog can enable your home network or business to begin collecting and aggregating system logs fast and easier than any other SIEM I have used. Within a few hours I was up and collecting more data, alerting on events and getting visibility into behaviors of my systems. This episode goes into the details and talk about why every single business needs to have a SIEM in their network and GrayLog is a viable option... and it's free.
NXLog Community Edition Windows Log Collector.
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Illinoisans are preparing for a second winter storm in a week as a system is set to move across the state bringing up to 9 inches of snow and high winds.The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for Friday evening through Saturday even...
Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke was sentenced to 6 years and 9 months in prison on Friday for the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald — an event that he called the worst day of his life.
Two companies proposing giant real estate projects in Chicago have fired the law firm of Ald. Edward Burke – just a couple of weeks after federal prosecutors charged him with attempting to extort business for his private practice.
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Chicago’s Department of Aviation on Thursday unveiled the designs of five architecture finalists for O’Hare International Airport’s new global terminal.
Each of the designs pitches a sleek, futuristic look for the $8.5 billion terminal, which is set f...
Student moderators at a forum at Whitney Young High School grilled candidates on school closings, the teachers union and on legalizing pot.
Did you know Google offers public DNS servers you can use instead of your ISP? Why would you do this? Keep your ISP and others from snooping on what websites you visit. Now Google's DNS service offers DNS over TLS to fully encrypt your DNS requests. This episode goes into the details of this switch, what it means and why you should switch all your devices to use it.
Google's DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
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The ex-Chicago cop could reduce any prison time by convincing the judge he feels bad about Laquan McDonald’s death, courthouse veterans say.
The judge ruled prosecutors failed to prove the three former cops conspired to cover up the shooting by convicted Officer Jason Van Dyke.
A Chicago City Council committee forwards a plan to study which areas of the city need to have mental health clinics re-opened.