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This podcast is growing! Oct 16, 2023

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Whether you’re a longtime fan or a first-time listener, you’ll love the changes coming to The Rundown podcast. From now on, catch three episodes from The Rundown feed every weekday: morning news, a midday deep-dive conversation and afternoon news. We want to bring you all the Chicago news you need to get through your day. And with our midday episodes, we’ll help you discover new places, people and things to love about the city. In this episode, host Erin Allen checks in with morning news host Adora Namigadde and afternoon news host Lisa Labuz.

Morning News: Monday October 16, 2023 Oct 16, 2023

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Prosecutors charged a southwest-suburban man with murder and hate crimes after the deadly stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy. Hearings kick off Monday as City Council members vet Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed spending plan for next year. Chicago’s homes impacted by flooding earlier this summer have more time to apply for federal relief.

Humans created the concept of race. A new exhibit explains how. Oct 13, 2023

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The concept of a person’s “race” is relatively new in the scope of human history. A new exhibit at Chicago’s Newberry Library, “Seeing Race Before Race,” looks at the period before we started grouping ourselves in racial hierarchies.

“From a period of time from about 1100 to 1800, we’re arguing that race was made, through image and text,” said Lia Markey, one of the exhibit’s curators.

In this episode, host Erin Allen talks through the exhibit with Markey and Noémie Ndiaye, another exhibit curator, about its most striking components and the goals of their scholarly research.

“I think it's much more useful to think of what race does than to think of what race is,” Ndiaye said. “Who benefits from this? What is the power structure that is being upheld or made?”

“Seeing Race Before Race” is open until late December.

Alderpersons discuss Gaza conflict, migrant state money unlikely, Karina’s Bill Oct 13, 2023

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The Chicago City Council is meeting Friday to debate a resolution “condemning Hamas’ attack on Israel.” Emanuel “Chris” Welch says it’s unlikely Illinois lawmakers will consider additional funding for migrants in Chicago during their upcoming legislative session. There’s a new push for a law, known as “Karina’s Bill” that would require police to remove guns from the homes of accused domestic abusers.

Johnson delivers budget plan, Uber and Lyft driver deactivations, flood recovery Oct 12, 2023

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first budget lays the groundwork for his campaign promises while not raising property taxes. A new report says Uber and Lyft deactivated thousands of Chicago drivers. Many are still struggling to recover three months after record setting storms flooded thousands of homes.

A photo exhibit on Navy Pier highlights the joy and pain of being a new mom Oct 11, 2023

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The first 12 weeks postpartum are stressful for new parents, especially for new mothers.

“It’s not something that’s really talked about,” said WBEZ photojournalist Manuel Martinez. He took dozens of powerful photographs of new mothers for the WBEZ multimedia series The First 12 Weeks, which is now a free interactive photo exhibit on Navy Pier through Nov. 30.

In this episode, Martinez explains his process for taking photos during such an intimate time in a person’s life, as well as how he and his wife handled this totally unique part of human life.

“We went through the pregnancy feeling like there were a lot of hands involved in making sure that she was going to be safe and the pregnancy was going to be successful,” Martinez said, “and then you go through the birth and you bring this baby home and nobody’s there. Everybody’s gone.”

Pritzker condemns Hamas, Johnson’s budget plan, school funding research Oct 11, 2023

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker added his voice to those condemning the actions of Hamas in Israel. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will lay out his proposal Wednesday to close a half-a-billion-dollar budget gap. New research shows that the way Chicago funds its public schools is helping its neediest students.

Calls for peace, Columbus statue debates continue, rebuilding transit staff Oct 10, 2023

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Illinois lawmakers are calling for peace and de-escalation in wake of growing tensions between Israel and Palestine. Italian Americans in Chicago are continuing to call for statues of Christopher Columbus to be replaced in the city’s parks. Chicago transit officials claim significant progress in rebuilding its workforce.

Mary Mitchell wants you to ‘embrace aging’ Oct 09, 2023

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For Mary Mitchell, retirement isn’t sticking. Lucky for us, she’s coming out of retirement to write a new column about aging called “Starting Over.” “I think we should embrace aging as opposed to making fun of it,” Mitchell said. She wants us to celebrate aging and use this opportunity to impart her wisdom to the next generation. In this episode, we talk to the Chicago Sun-Times columnist about what it means to reinvent ourselves later in life.

Attacks in Gaza reaction, Indigenous Peoples Day, marathon world records Oct 09, 2023

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Israelis and Palestinians in Chicago are watching as casualties mount on both sides in Israel, following a declaration of war over the weekend. Native American people are celebrating their centuries-long history of resilience on Indigenous Peoples Day. Chicago Marathon fans were out in earnest cheering on runners during Sunday’s race where two world records were set.

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