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Morning News: February 1, 2024 Feb 01, 2024

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Chicago is now the largest city in the country to pass a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. One teenager is dead and two are wounded following a daylight shooting yesterday in Chicago’s North Side Edgewater neighborhood. About 150 migrants staying in west suburban Oak Park were supposed to vacate their temporary shelters yesterday, but now have until the end of February.

Afternoon News: Wednesday January 31, 2024 Jan 31, 2024

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The Chicago City Council passed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza by a vote of 24-23. Journalists at the Chicago Tribune plan to go on strike Thursday for the first time ever. Attorneys for people in Illinois prisons are decrying the state’s decision to award another multi-billion-dollar contract to a controversial prison healthcare provider.

To make some cash, migrants in Chicago are forced to get creative Jan 31, 2024

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Many migrants new to Chicago cannot work legally, yet they still have to eat, find housing and just get by in a big city. So how are they making money?

“Manicures, cutting hair, cooking food, delivering food,” said WBEZ immigration reporter Adriana Cardona-Maguidad. “People really want to work and they want to have financial stability. And the path to get there, especially from the shelters – like you're new, you don't know your way around – can be extremely difficult.”

Cardona-Maguidad brings us her conversations with a few migrants as they’ve picked up work, from a mother selling candy at a busy intersection on Irving Park Road to a man washing windows for businesses on Montrose Avenue.

Morning News: January 31, 2024 Jan 31, 2024

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The Illinois State Board of Elections voted to keep Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot. Organizers of a protest march planned before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago are fighting City Hall after their application was denied. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says he supports the forced removal of police officers from schools.

Afternoon News: Tuesday January 30, 2024 Jan 30, 2024

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The State Board of Elections has decided to keep former President Donald Trump on the Illinois primary ballot. Federal prosecutors have asked for a five-year prison sentence for Tim Mapes. Formula One Racing could be the next big racing event to take over the Chicago streets.

Homeownership in Chicago is a dream for many, but not always a reality Jan 30, 2024

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Homeownership isn’t just valuable for you personally. It also helps build wealth for your family, your community, and even society at large, according to former Chicago Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara.

“When you have those kinds of assets in your life, it gives you way more options and way more ability to care intergenerationally for the well being of your family and to invest in your community,” said Novara, who is now the Vice President of Community Impact at the Chicago Community Trust.

Unfortunately, homeownership is an inaccessible pipe dream for many Chicagoans, due to everything from high interest rates and stagnating wages to a long history of racist policies that have kept many potential buyers of color from entering the market.

“Even today, it is much harder to get a loan at favorable terms from a bank if you are a Black or Latinx buyer trying to buy in a majority Black or majority brown community,” Novara said.

In this episode, Novara talks with host Erin Allen about her recent article for Crain’s Chicago Business. Novara explains the value of homeownership, the historical barriers to it (and the modern ones), and a few solutions that are in the works to help level the playing field.

Morning News: January 30, 2024 Jan 30, 2024

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Staff and students are starting the grieving process for the two teenagers shot and killed Friday as they left their downtown school. The board that oversees Illinois’ elections is scheduled to decide today whether Donald Trump’s name should be printed on ballots for the March primary. The State of Illinois is partnering with Google to streamline access to children’s behavioral health services through a new online portal called BEACON.

Afternoon News: Monday January 29, 2024 Jan 29, 2024

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker won’t support a ceasefire in Gaza until all the hostages being held by Hamas are released. Leaders from a contingent of Chicago-area unions joined to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. An error in the government’s formula for how much financial aid a student gets for college is causing a lot of uncertainty for Illinois families.

Talking about money with your loved ones Jan 29, 2024

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“Money intersects every area of our life,” said financial psychologist Brad Klontz. In the first part of our conversation with Klontz, we talked about how to reframe your narrative around finances. The way we think about money affects how we interact with the world around us. In this episode, host Erin Allen and Klontz discuss how to approach money in relationships. This episode originally aired on January 11, 2023.

Morning News: January 29, 2024 Jan 29, 2024

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A state hearing officer found the courts – and not the State Board of Elections – should decide whether former President Donald Trump will be on the state’s upcoming primary ballot. The Illinois-based think tank EveryLibrary Institute and editorial site Book Riot conducted a survey to learn what parents across the country think of school libraries. American bald eagle sightings are becoming more common in Chicagoland.

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