A spokesman for Justice Anne Burke —- wife of Ald. Ed Burke — says Comptroller Susana Mendoza withdrew a request for Burke to swear her in.
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Chicago set a new tourism record last year, attracting more than 57.6 million visitors during 2018.
This week'sTools, Tips and Tricks episode topic was submitted by a listener. I thought he had a valid security concern as a college student and turn it into an episode. This epsiode talks about the problem of file sharing between students and professors and how to keep malware and viruses at bay.
Link to the Online Scanner Article referenced in the episode.
Link to Episode 94 where I talk about VirusTotal in a TTT episode.
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The CTU is focusing on housing affordability, class size, and adequate staffing. Its contract ends soon after the next mayor is sworn in.
Furloughed federal workers are feeling financial strains as the partial government shutdown reaches three weeks.
The mayoral candidate’s commercial boasts about exposing truth, critics claim she’s using the killing as a political distraction.
Faced with a do-or-die $364,000 fundraising deadline of Jan. 7, St. Walter School beat its goal and gets to keep its doors open.
“Back in my day, teenagers and college students knew stuff. Now they just look things up on their phones.” Well . . . maybe? As Sam Wineburg has learned through extensive study of how we teach history and whether it works, we’ve always been bad at teaching history. And there really wasn’t ever a “golden age of fact retention.” So maybe we should just give up on drilling facts into kids and let their surfing fingers lead them to the knowledge they need, when they need it? Well, that’s a problem, too, Wineburg shows in his book Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone). The solution to our historically ineffective methods of teaching history (rote memorization among them) isn’t to stop teaching history: it’s to teach it better, using the knowledge we’ve gained through studies of what actually works. And a big part of that is figuring out how to give students the knowledge and critical thinking skills they’ll need to navigate a world of often suspect online information. Only by combining the two–giving students a sense of what history is and why it matters while also showing them how to use online news and sources with an effective amount […]
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Mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot is criticizing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s "green" record in an environmental plan she released Thursday.
Cook County Circuit Court Clerk and Chicago mayoral candidate Dorothy Brown is in danger of getting knocked off the February ballot, WBEZ has learned.
Hackers carried out pranks as part of a viral YouTube subscriber challenge. Where most see silly pranks I see exploitation of user's home equipment that can easily be fixed. This episode goes over the lastest hack that was a prank today but could be far worse tomorrow.
ShieldsUp Tester - Click Proceed, Then look for GRC's Instant UPnP Exposure Test.
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Chicago mayoral hopeful Bill Daley is one of the few candidates who’s against letting city voters elect their school board, but he’s proposing an alternative: dozens of elected mini school boards in the neighborhoods.
Daley wants to create about 50 ele...
LGBTQ students in Illinois say they feel unsafe in their schools and face discrimination, a new survey finds.
A new report documents how African-Americans and low-income renters continue to face barriers in Chicago’s rental market.
To talk to their doctors online, Northwestern Medicine patients must agree to forgo jury trials and class-action lawsuits should their digital info be mishandled.
Another day, another breach. This time it's Blur Password Manager bu Abine. Only this was a breach of their own making. This episode goes through how this breach happened and how you can make sure you don't make the same mistakes.
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is encouraging victims and witnesses to share any info they have about allegations against R. Kelly.
Video of suburban Chicago police fatally shooting a Pennsylvania man wanted on a murder warrant shows an officer struggling with him after he pointed a gun at her head.