Curious City - What Is Life Like In Chicago-Area Trailer Parks?

Chicagoans call lots of places home. We live in two-flats, three-flats, bungalows and skyscrapers. And hundreds of households live in Chicago’s only trailer park, Harbor Point Estates. Beyond the city’s borders, there’s another 18,000 mobile homes in our metro area. Reporter Linda Lutton set out to answer a question about what life is like in Chicagoland mobile home communities, as told by residents themselves.

The NewsWorthy - SCOTUS Job Opening, SpaceX Crash Coming & Young vs. Rogan- Thursday, January 27th, 2022

The news to know for Thursday, January 27th, 2022!

We're talking about an open seat on the Supreme Court: who is retiring and when a new justice is expected to take over.

Also, what to know about a new version of Covid-19 that's been detected in the U.S.

Plus, a SpaceX rocket booster on a collision course with the moon, why Spotify is removing a Grammy-winning musician from its platform, and this is your chance to own artwork from Picasso- sort of.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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NPR's Book of the Day - Former California prosecutor details how she helped take down sex trafficking site

Maggy Krell is a former California prosecutor who was on the team that took down the infamous sex trafficking site Blackpage back in 2018. Now, she's out with a new book about how they were able to get the website shuttered – and the challenges the team on the case now faces going forward. Reflecting on her time as a prosecutor, Krell told Morning Edition's Rachel Martin that this is the case she's proud of: "This was a case that shifted the national narrative and certainly sent a message to survivors that this shouldn't be normalized, that their experiences matter."

The Gist - “I’m Beginning To Worry About Putin’s Mental State”

Today on the Gist, The former President of Estonia on Russia's aggression and German obstruction. And news that SCOTUS's Breyer will retire inspires a Spiel about domestic obstructionism.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The American Whig Party (Encore)

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American politics has been called a two-party system. While there are two major parties today, and those two parties have been around a long time, they weren’t always the only two parties. 

In fact, there was a political party in the US that, took its name from a British political party, had four US presidents, and even held control of Congress for several years. 

Today, however, they are all but unknown to most people. 

Learn more about the Whig party, their rise, and fall, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 

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Getting Hammered - The Fifty Yard Scream

Moms in Boston are saying what we’re all feeling. Rather, screaming it from the 50 yard line of the local high school. Mary Katharine and Vic give the full rundown on the mask debacle in Virginia, President Biden snaps at Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy, and a recap of one of the best weekend in professional football


Times

  • 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the show 
  • 04:35 - Segment: The News You Need to Know 
  • 05:53 - Mask mandate madness continues in Virginia 
  •  08:56 - Kids and resilience
  •  10:04 - Fairfax County Public Schools town hall on masking
  • 18:37 - Mad moms in Boston scream on a high school football field, The New York Times reports
  • 23:44 - The New York Times’ David Leonhardt writes on coronavirus risk calculations
  • 28:04 - NBC Poll: Americans view former president Donald Trump more favorably than Vice President Kamala Harris 
  • 30:47 - Experts say last weekend was one of the greatest in NFL playoff history 
  • 38:00 - President Joe Biden calls Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy a "stupid son of a bitch," Doocy laughs it off


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Mary Katharine's article on resilience