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Afternoon News: Wednesday May 22, 2024 May 22, 2024

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Officials are expanding a federal consent decree that requires the Chicago Police Department to change the way officers are trained, supervised, and disciplined. Two Chicago City Council members have delayed an ordinance to create a noise sensitive zone around a downtown abortion clinic. Another Great Lakes Piping Plover has landed at Montrose beach.

For Latham Zearfoss, change is a chance for discovery May 22, 2024

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Latham Zearfoss is a Chicago artist and a cultural liaison at the Chicago Park District, where he helps build out cultural programming across the city.

Today, he explains his dynamic journey to this work as a part of Vocalo’s Chi Sounds Like series.

Morning News: Wednesday May 22, 2024 May 22, 2024

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A WBEZ analysis finds Mayor Brandon Johnson’s cabinet doesn’t look that much different from his predecessor’s. We’ll hear more about FEMA’s second annual extreme heat summit hosted downtown this week. Illinois lawmakers approve changes to the state’s child labor laws.

Afternoon News: Tuesday May 21, 2024 May 21, 2024

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Some employees at the Illinois capitol are turning up the heat as they try to unionize. Columbia College Chicago said it will announce staff layoffs by June 1st. It’s been 100 years since the murder of Bobby Franks by two University of Chicago students, a crime that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock movie “Rope.”

Good Things Vending machines swap out junk food for local art May 21, 2024

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Instead of junk food and pop, a Good Things Vending machine offers local art, throwback trading cards, games and dozens of other items you won’t find in a typical vending machine. There are a handful of them around Chicago, and the creator of the business says the goal is to spark joy and promote the city’s arts community. Steph Krim talks with Erin Allen about how she came up with the idea, her favorite items and where you can find a machine near you.

This episode was originally published on Oct. 17, 2023.

Morning News: Tuesday May 21, 2024 May 21, 2024

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The Illinois House approved a measure to let people have a driver’s license or state ID on their phone. Thirteen officers from across Illinois received the state’s Law Enforcement Medal of Honor yesterday. The University of Chicago Crime Lab is welcoming anti-violence leaders from across the country to help them be more effective in their roles.

Afternoon News: Monday May 20, 2024 May 20, 2024

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Planned Parenthood of Illinois is reopening its Peoria Health Center Monday after a January 2023 firebombing forced the facility to close. The Chicago office in charge of independently analyzing the mayor’s budget proposal each year is understaffed, according to its new leader. Weather forecasts for both Monday and Tuesday call for a chance of severe weather.

‘We are a tough people’: Anonymous Chicago artist Dont Fret loves this city May 20, 2024

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Dont Fret is a Chicago-born cartoonist, muralist and self-published author who loves his city. He’s anonymous in part because he spent his childhood tagging walls across Chicago,

“You’re a Chicagoan,” he writes in his book, “This Is No Quiet City.” “Your eyes and heart are wide open, and that is pure, raw, messy, true, and terrifying.”

In this episode, Dont Fret explains how he got into graffiti growing up in Wicker Park, why he self-published his book, and why Chicago is a city that punches back.

“We are a tough, tough people,” he said to host Erin Allen, “and I think that comes from the stockyards. It comes from inclusion and immigration, diversity and eclect-icity.”

Dont Fret has a book-signing event at the MCA on June 11. You can find more of his work on his Instagram.

This episode was originally published on Aug. 9, 2023.

Morning News: Monday May 20, 2024 May 20, 2024

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A corridor of Clark Street in River North will no longer be closed for pedestrians this summer. A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum offers a glimpse into the Kindertransport program that saved the lives of thousands of children in the 1930s. Loyola Medicine has launched a program this spring for treating women athletes in the Chicago area.

Afternoon News: Friday May 17, 2024 May 17, 2024

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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. is calling on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 presidential election results following a New York Times report that an upside-down American flag was seen at the conservative justice’s house in January 2021. A coalition of interfaith leaders will gather at the Chicago Temple downtown Sunday to honor a Palestinian-American boy who was fatally stabbed in suburban Plainfield last year. Credit monitoring agencies wouldn’t have access to some medical debt information under a bill Illinois lawmakers just approved.

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