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2 CPD Officers Die After Being Struck By Metra Train On South Side

Eduardo Marmolejo, 37, and Conrad Gary, 31, were pursuing a person heading toward the train tracks when they were hit shortly after 6 p.m. Monday as the commuter train passed through the area, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said. Police said the o...

Thinking Literature: A new series

The University of Chicago Press announces a new series devoted to books in literary criticism. Entitled Thinking Literature and co-edited by Nan Z. Da (University of Notre Dame) and Anahid Nersessian (University of California, Los Angeles), the series will be devoted to “the refinement of literary criticism as a way of thinking unavailable by other means.” “This series is a contrarian move,” says Alan Thomas, the Press’s editorial director and acquisitions editor for the series. “At a time when interdisciplinary projects carry the greatest prestige in the humanities, it’s time for literary criticism to make a stronger case for its disciplinary integrity and a bolder claim for what it offers as a practice.” “Thinking Literature will be a gift to our discipline,” says Deidre Shauna Lynch (Harvard University), author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History. “I admire the editors’ commitment to scholarship centered on the big questions, ones that can’t be posed often enough and which need, now more than ever, to be posed anew: what defines literature’s distinctiveness, why does it matter, and what modes of criticism can best honor that significance?” Jeff Dolven (Princeton University), author of Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation, adds, “Thinking Literature promises to […]

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Episode 392 – Why You Should Make Strong Passwords

It's the end of the year and you should be resetting all your accounts' passwords. If you are not using an automated vault service that can make and store complex passwords for you there are things you need to be aware of when creating passwords. This episode talks about how passwords can be guessed by the bad guys and things you should avoid when manually creating new passwords.

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Episode 391 – Tools, Tips and Tricks – Gmail Email Address Trick

This week's Tools, Tips and Tricks episode I talk about a great Gmail trick to get you hundreds of unique email addresses from your one account and how to use it to protect your inbox and stay organized.

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Episode 390 – Tis The Season To Patch All Your Devices

Tis' the season for many things and one of those things should be improving your personal security posture. This episode talks about taking the time before the end of the year and patch all your systems.

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Facing Federal Heat, Chicago Ald. Ed Burke Gets Help From Famed Lawyers

In the wake of the shocking FBI raids at his City Hall and ward offices last month, powerful Ald. Ed Burke enlisted the help of two prominent defense lawyers, including former U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas, WBEZ has learned.Sources said Wednesday that th...

Immigrants Flock To Chicago Churches To Celebrate The Patron Saint of Mexico

Veronica Garcia had major surgery a few weeks ago, but that didn’t keep her from waking up at 3 a.m. to go to church.
Garcia is a devout believer in the Virgin of Guadalupe and wanted to bring the virgin flowers and to pray to her on the day many belie...

Report on Parks Says Funding, Programming Not Equitable Across Chicago

Updated 4:48 p.m.
Thirty-five years after a federal court order forced the Chicago Park District to spend more equitably on city parks, public parks are still divided along neighborhood and racial lines. That’s according to Friends of the Parks’ 2018 ...

“How did we get into this mess?” Two new books offering a deeper look into the state of democracy in America

“How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done.” Those lines are stolen directly from the opening of the jacket copy for Boston College political scientist Alan Wolfe’s new book The Politics of Petulance, which just published this October. And they now seem more appropriate than ever. With the Mueller inquiry rapidly decreasing the degrees of separation between individuals who have already been indicted, and members of Trump’s inner circle, including the President himself, institutional corruption and the unraveling of the electorate’s faith in the modern democratic system are topics now making front page news on an almost daily basis. But while the headlines might seem to implicate the Trump administration in particular in the current state of affairs, in the New York Times Book Review, Norman J. Ornstein offers a review of two new books from the University of Chicago Press that take a deeper look at the issue, teasing out the historical, cultural, and institutional trends that the authors argue are the real culprits responsible for “what ails America.”  Ornstein’s review offers a nice summary of both […]

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For Pension Fix, Emanuel Says Borrow, Legalize Weed, Open Chicago Casino

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took the first step toward possibly borrowing $10 billion to bolster the city’s foundering pensions on Wednesday, while urging state lawmakers to change the Illinois Constitution, legalize recreational marijuana and approve a...

Episode 389 – Tis The Season For Home IT Inventory

Tis' the season for many things and one of those things is improving your home and personal security posture. This episode talks about taking a home IT inventory, things to record and why you should consider doing it.

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