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Death Toll in West Texas Shooting Rampage Rises to 7	FBI: West Texas Gunman ‘Was on a Long Spiral of Going Down’	Jeff Award Nominations a Reminder of the Season Spotlighted as ‘Year of Chicago Theater’ Gov. Pritzker Pardons Army Vet Deported to Mexico Suit Settled in Teen Suicide that Led to Illinois Law Change Opioid Settlement Would Divide Money Based on Local Impact Police: Shootings, Murders Fall in August Willie Wilson to Run as Independent for US Senate Against Dick Durbin Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds in Hurricane-Stricken Bahamas September 3, 2019 - Full Show Chicago Dance Crash’s Wonderfully Fresh ‘Lil Pine Nut’ Deserves a Remount From Tunnel to Tap: Field Exhibit Explores Hidden Beauty of Water Systems Exhibit Digs Up Satire and Skeletons of ‘Legendary Printmaker’ Posada Social Worker Shares Intimate Stories from Chicago’s Mental Health System CPS Unveils Englewood STEM High School After Controversial Closures Aldermen React to Mayor’s ‘Hard Choices’ in ‘State of the City’ Speech Civil Rights Attorney to Lead New Office of Equity and Racial Justice Grammy-Winning Guitarist Isaiah Sharkey on John Mayer Tour, Family Legacy	Facebook Face Recognition Feature to Replace Tag Suggestions Walmart Introduces New Gun Restrictions But Will They Help? April 2020 Trial Date Set in R. Kelly’s Federal Case in Chicago ‘We Need Help’: Rescuers in Bahamas Face a Ruined Landscape Jussie Smollett’s Attorneys Detail Why Civil Suit Should Be Tossed September 4, 2019 - Full Show Illinois Tech Becomes 1st University in Midwest to Offer Degree in Artificial Intelligence Bears, Packers Kick Off NFL’s 100th Season Thursday Night 10 Things to Do This Weekend: Sept. 5-8 The Legal Battle Over Lincoln Yards $1.3B TIF District Ask Geoffrey: An Airline Taxi Service in Chicago New Illinois Law Boosts Funding for Clean Water Infrastructure, Jobs Make Salsa and Pico de Gallo with Fresh, Homegrown Ingredients Spotlight Politics: Lightfoot Leans on Springfield as Chicago Teachers Ready to Strike Early Learning Providers Concerned About New City Funding Contract	Hurricane Dorian Rakes Carolinas as It Moves Up the Coast Aldermen, Advocates Want City Tax to Support Homeless Students, Families Cook County Maps Story of Opioid Epidemic with New Website Could Illinois Be the Next State to Ban Balloon Releases? September 5, 2019 - Full Show Bus Driver Fired, CTA Sued After Cyclist Struck by Bus in River North Parents Sound Alarm on Vaping After Daughter’s Near-Death Experience Restoring Artwork and Treasures at a Chicago Conservation Lab UChicago Podcast Strives to Bridge the Civil-Military Divide What Congestion Pricing Could Look Like in Chicago Naperville City Council Says ‘No’ to Legal Sale of Marijuana – For Now CPS CEO Janice Jackson on a Possible Teachers Strike and the School Year Ahead ‘The Founders’ Art Project Connects Communities Along CTA Green Line Study Shows ‘Clear Evidence of Rising Rents’ Near Obama Center Site	Bears’ Offense Struggles in Opening Loss to Packers ‘The Band’s Visit’ Captures the Special Magic of an Unexpected Encounter Judge: Drugmakers, Others Can Face Trial Over Opioids Crisis Head of Suburban Autism Center Charged in $3M Fraud Scheme Broadband Access Key to Expanding Telehealth in Illinois Communities The Week in Review: Sterigenics Ruling, Bears Flop
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	Trial to Begin in 9-Year-Old’s Killing That Shocked Chicago US Health Officials Report New Vaping Deaths, Repeat Warning Looking to Hire 30,000, Amazon Plans Nationwide Job Fairs Sen. Durbin Calls on FDA Commissioner to Act on Vaping Epidemic or Resign UChicago Among Top 10 ‘Best Colleges’ in 2020 Rankings from US News Disability Rights Community Mourns Loss of Pioneer Marca Bristo September 9, 2019 - Full Show Humans Have Been Altering the Planet for at Least 3,000 Years, Study Finds Crème Sheri Brings a Big Personality to All Things Jazz ‘The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook’ Offers a Democratic View of the City Lack of E-Cigarette Regulations Complicates Explanation for Lung Illnesses Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi: ‘We’re Leaning Into Chicago’ Sterigenics Settlement: Controversial Company Gets Green Light from Judge Northwestern Engineering Team Pioneers New Medical Technologies Rare, Super-Deep Diamonds Reveal Secrets of Early Earth	‘Chicago Tonight’ Expands Business Coverage with Crain’s Chicago Partnership Judge Rejects Decorum Order in Marlen Ochoa-Lopez Murder Case After Nearly 100 Years, Chicago Stock Yard Kilty Band Marches On Wisconsin Man Accused of Making Illegal Vaping Cartridges September 10, 2019 - Full Show Group Calls on Illinois, Great Lakes States to Take Action on ‘Forever Chemicals’ 3D Ghost of Maria Callas Gives a Remarkable Performance at Lyric Opera Illinois Derailment Prompts Evacuation of Schools, Homes Vista Tower’s Engineering Feats: Blair Kamin Explains How Satellites Can Detect and Protect Earth From Asteroids Congestion Charge a Tough Sell for ‘Overtaxed’ Chicagoans Why Fewer Kids Are Playing High School Football in Illinois Crain’s Headlines: McDonald’s Betting on Drive-Thru Automation US to Commemorate 9/11 as Its Aftermath Extends and Evolves Corporations Balk at Progressive Plan to Reinstate Corporate Head Tax	Share of Uninsured Americans Rises for 1st Time in a Decade Government Will Propose Banning Flavors Used in E-Cigarettes Janice Jackson: Trauma is a ‘Fact of Life’ for Many CPS Students OxyContin Maker Reaches Tentative Opioid-Crisis Settlement September 11, 2019 - Full Show Ask Geoffrey: What’s the ‘Polish Cathedral’ Architectural Style? Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Opens Up in Chicago Speech 52 Endangered Blanding’s Turtles Released in DuPage County Crain’s Headlines: New Private Sector Gig for Lisa Madigan Illinois Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Opioid Distributors, Manufacturers How Should Illinois Schools Teach Sex Education? New Series ‘We Are Witnesses’ Explores Criminal Justice in Chicago Local Rehab Hospital Turns Gun Violence Victims into Able Survivors Spotlight Politics: Illinois Has a New Supreme Court Justice	10 Things to Do This Weekend: Sept. 12-15 Potency of Wisconsin THC Cartridges May be Higher than Claim Protest Planned Ahead of Sean Spicer’s Visit to NEIU CPS Ordered to Overhaul Sexual Violence Policies After Scathing Federal Review September 12, 2019 - Full Show Report: Obesity Rates Rising in Illinois, Across the Country Chicago Rolls Out Plan to Curb Deadly Traffic Accidents Lyric Opera Names Its Next Music Director: Enrique Mazzola Crain’s Headlines: US-China Trade War Signals Trouble for Boeing Revisiting Farnsworth House, a Masterpiece of Modern Architecture Will Illinois Become the Next State to Pass Rent Control Laws? Bears Face Fangio, Broncos in Week 2 Matchup Cook County’s Chief Judge Fends off Opposition to Keep Top Spot Comedy Series ‘South Side’ Highlights Chicago Talent, On and Off Camera High School Bands Ready for Battle at Chicago Football Classic Health Officials: Hospitalizations in Illinois Linked to Vaping Climbs to 52	US Officials Revise Vaping Illness Count to 380 in 36 States Family: Eddie Money, ‘Two Tickets to Paradise’ Singer, Dies 10,000 Cabbages Growing in Garfield Park for New ‘Living Exhibit’ ‘Be Here Now’ a Tragicomic Gem About Seizing the Day Suburban Teen With Severe Lung Damage Files Lawsuit Against E-Cigarette Maker Juul The Week in Review: Anne Burke Named Chief Justice of Illinois Supreme Court
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Chicago Teachers Inch Closer to Possible Strike Pineiro’s 53-Yard Field Goal Lifts Bears Past Broncos 16-14	After Bankruptcy Filing, Purdue Pharma May Not be Off Hook Rocker Ric Ocasek, Frontman of The Cars, Dead at 75 September 16, 2019 - Full Show Lightfoot Proposes Citywide Ban on Flavored E-Cigarette Products Allison Arwady Nominated to Become CDPH Commissioner Business is Buzzing This Summer for a Chicago Beekeeper on Wheels New Book Pegs Trump’s Rise to Evolution of Modern Television Author Paul Tough on ‘How College Makes or Breaks Us’ Crain’s Headlines: Amazon Adds 400 Jobs to Chicago Office Basketball Diplomacy Takes a Great Theatrical Leap Forward at Steppenwolf The Reparations Debate is Heading to City Council In Joliet, Commercial Fishers Join the Fight Against Asian Carp General Iron Deal Spurs Debate About Land Use, Air Quality	Indiana, Illinois AGs Investigate After Fetal Remains Found Many US Women Say 1st Sexual Experience Was Forced in Teens Ocasio-Cortez Backs Liberal Challenger to Dem Congressman Cokie Roberts, Longtime Political Journalist, Dies at 75 September 17, 2019 - Full Show Lifelong Dollhouse Maker Dreams of Creating a Museum Lawyer: Chicago Archdiocese Has Paid Out $80M to Law Firm An Advice Columnist Taps into the Pain, Poetry and ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ of Life Kim Foxx Hopes to ‘Right Wrongs of the Past’ With Pot Expungements Should Chicago Increase Its Minimum Wage to $15 by 2021? Crain’s Headlines: Lightfoot Administration Rolls Out Pot Plan New Technique for Repairing Old Water Lines Could Save Neighborhood Trees Chicago Band Big Sadie Weighs in on Ken Burns’ Documentary ‘Country Music’ A Shipping Container Gets New Life as Lawndale Pop-Up Spot	Dillinger Family Members Apply Again to Exhume His Grave States Split by Party on Accepting Purdue Pharma Settlement Number of Abortions in US Falls to Lowest Since 1973 September 18, 2019 - Full Show Trump Names Hostage Envoy Robert O’Brien National Security Adviser 10 Things to Do This Weekend: Sept. 19-22 City Council Looks to Restrict Vaping, Expand Marijuana ‘Greenway’ Plan for Lincoln Park Side Street Sparks Neighborhood Tension Crain’s Headlines: Fulton Market Office Building Sells for $50M FCC Proposes New 3-Digit Suicide Prevention Lifeline 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial Returns With a Critical Eye Ask Geoffrey: The Pan American Games in Chicago ‘Everything Must Go’ Investigates Gentrification through Poetry, Illustrations Spotlight Politics: Signs of Struggle Ahead for Lightfoot?	Government Watchdog to Testify About Alleged Trump ‘Promise’ Will Combo Pill Catch on in US to Prevent Heart Attacks? US Awards $3M to Fill Gaps in Medical Marijuana Research No Fetal Remains Found at Shuttered Indiana Abortion Clinic September 19, 2019 - Full Show House Chairman: Whistleblower Complaint May Involve Trump Health Officials: 69 Hospitalizations Linked to Vaping in Illinois Find Pumpkin Patches in Chicago and the Suburbs Ald. Leslie Hairston Stands By Comment That Nature Sanctuary is ‘Dead’ Crain’s Headlines: Amazon Announces Renewable Energy Goals Bears vs. Redskins: Chicago’s Offense Looks to Improve After Slow Start Father Michael Pfleger: Gun Violence ‘Not Just a Chicago Problem’ Former Clinton Aide Blumenthal Tackles Lincoln’s Life in 5 Volumes Will New Owner Joe Mansueto Light Up the Chicago Fire? We Ask Him Field Museum Joins Youth Climate Strike in Chicago	Official: Fetal Remains Found in Garage Nearly 2 Decades Old House Committee Votes to Boost Funding for Great Lakes Restoration Trump Denounces ‘Partisan’ Whistleblower But Says ID Unknown ‘Don’t be a Fossil Fool’: Chicago Youth Demonstrate for Environmental Justice University of Chicago Nurses Hit the Picket Line The Week in Review: Lightfoot Gets Blowback for Pot Plan CSO Opens Season with Glorious Grieg, Stunning Shostakovich and More
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Police: Suspect in Cop Shooting, Bike Attack Captured ‘Deficit of Trust’: At UN, Leaders of a Warming World Gather	Attempted Murder Charges Filed Against Man Accused of Shooting CPD Officer, Woman September 23, 2019 - Full Show At UN, Trump Focuses on Religious Freedom, Not Climate 27 Illinois Counties Eligible for Federal Aid After Near-Record Flooding Where Have the Wild Birds Gone? 3 Billion Fewer Than 1970 Schools Consider Unrestricted Locker Room Access for Transgender Students Illinois Considers Banning Flavored E-Cigarettes Crain’s Headlines: Cash Infusion for High-Profile CTA Project One of Lightfoot’s Loudest City Council Critics Speaks Out Banned Books: Librarians Push Back Against Censorship	Trubisky, Bears Get Offense on Track, Beat Redskins 31-15 US Official Expects ‘Hundreds More’ Cases of Vaping Illness Class-Action Suit Says Chicago’s Lack of Blind-Accessible Crossing Signals Violates ADA September 24, 2019 - Full Show Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead’s Poetic Lyricist, Dead at 78 Two Early 20th Century British Classics Adapted for the Stage Raid at Home, Office of Powerful State Sen. Martin Sandoval After 40 Years in Solitary Confinement, a ‘Story of Transformation and Hope’ Aldermen Propose Limits on Backyard Livestock in Chicago Crain’s Headlines: Investors Weigh Effects of Climate Change Brookfield Zoo Adopts 2 Stranded and Injured Sea Lions Former Lake County Politician Aaron Lawlor Discusses Addiction, Recovery Northwestern Launches Hub to Boost Science via Artificial Intelligence Pelosi Orders Impeachment Probe: ‘No One Is Above The Law’ 5 Fall Theater Recommendations from Hedy Weiss	A Spoonful Less Sugar, Tad More Fat: US Diets Still Lacking 10 Things to Do This Weekend: Sept. 26-29 CTU, CPS Leaders Offer Contract Updates as Strike Authorization Results Loom Memo: Trump Prodded Ukraine Leader on Biden Claims Democrats, Republicans React to Launch of Impeachment Inquiry September 25, 2019 - Full Show Crain’s Headlines: Inspire Brands Gobbles Up Jimmy John’s The Impeachment Process: How It Works Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Trump Impeachment Inquiry Why It’s Legal for Police, Divorce Attorneys to Collect I-Pass User Data Mobile Museum Stops in Chicago to Preserve Family Histories Spotlight Politics: Another Day, Another Politician, Another FBI Raid	Police: Teen’s Report of Kidnapping, Sexual Abuse in Wicker Park ‘Unfounded’ 20-Mile Horse Ride Through Loop Shines a Light on Veteran Suicide Report Details Human and Economic Costs of Flooding in Illinois, US Bus Driver Fired After Striking Cyclist Was Among Highest-Paid CTA Drivers Jacqueline Stewart, TCM’s Newest Host, on Film Preservation, Representation Banged-Up Bears Look to Keep Things Rolling Against Vikings September 26, 2019 - Full Show Whistleblower Gives Democrats a ‘Roadmap’ for Trump Probe Crain’s Headlines: 25 Chicago Restaurants Get Michelin Stars Isaiah Collier: An Emerging Chicago Talent in Jazz and Blues Chicago Teachers Union Members Vote to Authorize Strike	New Crocodile Species Identified With Help of Skulls in Field Museum’s Basement US Vaping Illness Count Jumps to 805, Deaths Rise to 13 Illinois Among 17 States Suing Trump Administration Over Weakened Endangered Species Act Rules CSO’s Opening Salvo in Beethoven 250th Birthday Celebration Proves Composer Forever Young Riccardo Muti Leads Community Rehearsal with Chicago West Community Music Center Investigations Touch Illinois Powerbroker’s Confidants The Week in Review: Illinois Dems Join Pelosi’s Call for Impeachment Inquiry
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	Terrorism Charge Against SUV Driver in Suburban Chicago Mall Manager Joe Maddon Won’t be Back with Cubs Next Season Trubisky Latest Quarterback Casualty; Status Unknown After Injury During Bears Win Chicago Police Department Unveils New Dashboard Tracking Use of Force Reports September 30, 2019 - Full Show Lincoln Park Zoo Lion Sahar Dies Unexpectedly During Temporary Stay in Kansas CDC Study Links Vaping Illness in Illinois, Wisconsin to THC Cartridges Controversial Chemical Company Sterigenics Ceasing Illinois Operations ‘Remaking a Life’: New Book Features Chicago Women Living with HIV/AIDS Deported Army Veteran from Chicago Returns to United States ‘A New Low’: Sen. Durbin on Ukraine Call, Trump Impeachment Inquiry Special Prosecutor in Smollett Case Reveals He Made Campaign Contribution to Kim Foxx As a Young Man, He Traveled with ‘Railroad Tramps’ and Documented Their Lives Crain’s Headlines: McPier Leader to Join Real Estate Firm Clayco Allies Watch Closely as Trump Impeachment Probe Intensifies Cannabis Tourism: Will Legalized Marijuana Bring Reefer Madness to Illinois?