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Wednesday

National

Website Tailored To Paramilitary Groups Experiences Explosive Growth

WBEZ

The website MyMilitia makes it easier than ever for people to find armed, far-right paramilitary groups to join. Efforts to take down the site have sputtered.

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Wednesday

Business

Coronavirus Pandemic Upends The Dry Cleaning Industry

WBEZ

The pandemic may be dealing a final blow to one industry: dry cleaning. The past year's work-in-sweats norm has accelerated the decline of this mom-and-pop, and mostly immigrant industry.

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Saturday

Activists: Gang Database Disproportionately Targets Young Men Of Color

Luis Pedrote-Salinas, seen at a July news conference, is suing the Chicago Police Department for including him in a gang database, an inaccurate designation that he thinks cost him the chance for protection under the DACA program. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP hide caption

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Activists: Gang Database Disproportionately Targets Young Men Of Color

Latino and immigrant groups in Chicago say that the electronic gang database is inaccurate, that there is no way for people to remove their names and that it's leading to some deportations.

Activists: Gang Database Disproportionately Targets Young Men Of Color

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Thursday

National

One Woman Shares How She Was Drawn Into A Gang At An Early Age

There's a lot of attention on boys and young men involved in gun violence because they do most of the shooting, and are most of the victims. But girls and young women are also drawn into gangs, sometimes as enablers or transporters of guns.

One Woman Shares How She Was Drawn Into A Gang At An Early Age

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Tuesday

Friday

Religion

Evangelical College Suspends Professor For Showing Solidarity With Muslims

Wheaton College, an Evangelical school outside of Chicago, has been roiled by questions about Christianity's posture toward Islam and academic freedom at religious schools. An associate professor who vowed recently to wear a headscarf in solidarity with Muslims was suspended from her job this week. The college says it's not because of the headscarf, but because of theological questions raised by a Facebook post in which she cited Pope Francis's recent statement that Muslims and Christians worship the same God.

Evangelical College Suspends Professor For Showing Solidarity With Muslims

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Tuesday

Business

A View Of The Ride-Share Debate From The Backseat Of Both Sides

WBEZ

Odette Yousef of WBEZ reports on the debate in Illinois, trying to determine the answer to one important question: What makes ride-share services different from taxis?

A View Of The Ride-Share Debate From The Backseat Of Both Sides

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Wednesday

Should Banks Maintain Abandoned Properties?

An abandoned home on Chicago's South Side, which neighbor Ruben DeSantiago says attracts gang activity. DeSantiago and other neighbors mow the lawn and pick up trash because they say no one else is caring for the house. Odette Yousef hide caption

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Crisis In The Housing Market

Should Banks Maintain Abandoned Properties?

WBEZ

Chicago has dug in its heels on a new city ordinance that puts banks on the line for securing and maintaining vacant homes. But the federal government, on behalf of mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is fighting the law in a test case that could affect other cities, too.

Should Banks Maintain Abandoned Properties?

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Tuesday

Financial Turmoil Grips World Markets

'Save The Dream' Tour Helps Troubled Homeowners

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As foreclosures continue to mount, a group called Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America is trying to help. Organizers are holding Save the Dream sessions across the country to help homeowners figure out how to get their mortgages restructured.

'Save The Dream' Tour Helps Troubled Homeowners

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Tuesday

Education

Ga. Program Pays Low-Income Students to Study

Some kids in Fulton County, Ga., are earning a paycheck just for doing their homework. A pilot project sponsored by a local foundation offers a group of low-income students $8 an hour to go to after-school study sessions twice a week. The kids say the program is helpful, but some educators are troubled by it.

Ga. Program Pays Low-Income Students to Study

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Monday

National

Grady Memorial Hospital Has Cash Emergency

Grady Memorial Hospital is Atlanta's only safety-net hospital for the poor. But the 100-year old institution is on the verge of collapse. Without a major infusion of money by the end of the year, Grady will fail to make payroll and may have to close. Its board of trustees has agreed to resign.

Grady Memorial Hospital Has Cash Emergency

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Thursday

Obituaries

The Death of a Marine

Marine Sgt. Jayton Daniel Patterson died in Iraq, when he stepped on a land mine in January. Patterson's friends and family in Sedley, Va., remember a young man of determination and religious faith, nicknamed "Bible Boy" in high school.

The Death of a Marine

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