Morning Shift’s Friday News Roundup For Sept. 20, 2019

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Morning Shift’s Friday News Roundup For Sept. 20, 2019

FromReset with Sasha-Ann Simons

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Sep 20, 2019

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No pot stores on the Mag Mile, and the mayor’s refusal to release all the documents related to the Laquan McDonald case are just some of the stories we’re covering in today’s Friday News roundup

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Sep 20, 2019

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County Dems Make 2020 Picks, Social Media And The Next Election: It’s not quite the old smoke-filled back room of yore, but Cook County Democrats met late last week to choose who they’ll be supporting in the 2020 elections. WBEZ county reporter Kristen Schorch explains who got the nod, and how the county party’s backi by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Chicago Kids Combating Gun Violence In Schools, Neighborhoods: One weekend in America, two more mass shootings. While the national media focuses on the massacres in El Paso and Dayton, 7 were killed and nearly 50 wounded in Chicago between Friday and Sunday nights. Earlier this year, as we marked the 20th anniversar by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Minority-Owned Small Businesses Can’t Get Capital Needed To Grow: Small business loans are not being dished out at past rates in minority and low-income areas across Chicagoland and across Illinois. That’s according to a new study from Chicago’s Woodstock Institute. The lack of investment from banks essentially leaves by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Friday News Roundup For Sept, 13, 2019: From federal oversight of Chicago’s public schools tied to last year’s news of CPS’s oversight of sexual abuse and assault cases, to judges in high places to an unfolding story of the continued failure of the state’s Department of Children and Family Ser by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Trade War With China Affecting Illinois Farmers, Consumers: It’s been well over a year since the Trump administration started slapping tariffs on Chinese goods. China has responded in kind, and Illinois corn and soybean producers are taking a hit as one of their biggest export markets dries up. Additional tariffs by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Illinois Fiscal Picture Looking Brighter. Barely.: Ratings agencies-which determine how fiscally stable a government entity is, which ultimately determines how much it will cost that government to borrow money-have taken a dim view of Illinois’ finances over the last several years. But this week, the sta by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Waukegan Gambling And Young Poets Honor Gwendolyn Brooks: Pro Publica Illinois has taken another deep dive into gambling in the state. This time the focus is on Waukegan, the gambling interests there, and the influence they’re exerting. Plus the Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards give young people a chance to by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Spotlight On State And National Politics: Senate President John Cullterton is retiring after 4 decades in the statehouse, and U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley is front-and-center in the impeachment hearings. We’ll find out what the Illinois senate will be like without Cullerton, and what kinds of question by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Uber’s Chicago Move, Chemical Spills In NW Indiana: Uber wants to be more than a rideshare company. They want to dominate a number of transportation markets in the same way Amazon has become a one-stop shopping experience. To that end, Uber has leased the massive old post office building that straddles th by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Harassment In Springfield, And CHA Head Abruptly Resigns: Last year a staffer in Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s office came forward with allegations of sexual harassment against her superior Kevin Quinn. Now a new report fully outlines the circumstances and situations women have endured for years. And wh by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Markets In Tizzy Over Inverted Yield Curve, Chicago’s Safe House: Over the last week, news reports and business channels have been throwing around the term Inverted Yield Curve. We’ll find out what it means, and what it has to do with a possible future recession or economic downturn. Then we’ll talk to the folks who ru by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Growing Up Bears: Chairman George McCaskey On His Family's Business And Passion: Bears' chairman George McCaskey talks to Cheryl Raye Stout about his life and work as the grandson of the team's-and the NFL's-founder George Halas by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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A Teacher At Heart: One Man Leaves Academia And Returns To The Classroom: Gregory Michie was born to teach. After years as a CPS teacher, Michie took a job as an education professor. He thought he was leaving the rough-and-tumble of daily teaching for a less stressful gig at a university. But a decade later, he was back. Michi by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Future Chicago Casino Profits And A New Elder Abuse Task Force: A new survey says that Chicago and Illinois will do quite well once a successful casino opens in the city. But it also says that the profits for the casino’s actual owner will be so low, we may see a situation where no one wants to build one in the first by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Morning Shift’s Friday News Roundup For Sept. 20, 2019: No pot stores on the Mag Mile, and the mayor’s refusal to release all the documents related to the Laquan McDonald case are just some of the stories we’re covering in today’s Friday News roundup by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Lightfoot’s First 100 Days Fast Approaching. How’s She Doing?: When Lori Lightfoot campaigned for Mayor of Chicago, she talked about rooting out corruption, making government more transparent, including communities in discussions about how to make better policy, and having an all-around more equitable city that work by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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State's Attorney Takes Aim At Juul, KLEO Celebrates City Youth: From paying social media influencers to their ad campaigns to the flavors themselves, Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim believes that Juul, the biggest player in the growing e-cigarette market, is going directly after children. So he’s going d by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Nurses Strike And Crime On The El: Nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center went on a one-day strike last Friday, highlighting what they see as staffing issues that put patients at risk. We’ll find out more about the strike from Tribune healthcare reporter Lisa Schencker, and De by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Cook County State’s Attorney ReadyTo Expunge Pot Records: Tens of thousands of people in Cook County have a hard time getting a job, finding housing, or moving on to become productive citizens after a conviction for a marijuana-related offense. But when weed becomes legal in Illinois on January 1, many of those by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Morning Shift’s Friday News Roundup For Sept. 20, 2019

Morning Shift’s Friday News Roundup For Sept. 20, 2019

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