From symptoms to best practices and more, the news around COVID-19 is constantly changing and being updated. Infectious disease expert Dr. Mina Taormina returns to answer a new batch of questions from us, and from listeners
Curious City - Who Created The Cook County Forest Preserves?
Around the turn of the century, the great American wilderness was disappearing. That’s when an architect named Dwight Perkins devised an ambitious plan to save Chicagoland’s natural treasures — by creating the state’s first forest preserves. . Over the next 15 years, Perkins would weather legal battles and partisan squabbling in pursuit of his vision.
Curious City - Who Created The Cook County Forest Preserves?
Around the turn of the century, the great American wilderness was disappearing. That’s when an architect named Dwight Perkins devised an ambitious plan to save Chicagoland’s natural treasures — by creating the state’s first forest preserves. . Over the next 15 years, Perkins would weather legal battles and partisan squabbling in pursuit of his vision.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Chicago And Illinois News Roundup: May 1, 2020
We bring you all the big state and local news this week as the covid-19 crisis continues. John Byrne from the Chicago Tribune and Amanda Vinicky of WTTW break it all down, from City Hall to the statehouse in Springfield and everywhere in between.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Things To Read, Watch, and Do With Author Nnedi Okorafor
We’re all doing our best to cope under the current circumstances. But it always helps to get ideas of things to read, watch, and do during the stay-at-home order. So each week, we reach out to a creative Chicagoan to get their ideas. This week, we get some of those ideas science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism author Nnedi Okorafor
Curious City - I Started Sewing Clothes For My Barbies — Now I’m Sewing Face Masks
Life Interrupted is a new weekly series from Curious City about daily life in Chicago during the pandemic. In today's episode, Lucy Keating first learned to sew on her grandmother’s Singer sewing machine. Today, she’s reviving her skills to make masks for COVID-19.
Curious City - I Started Sewing Clothes For My Barbies — Now I’m Sewing Face Masks
Life Interrupted is a new weekly series from Curious City about daily life in Chicago during the pandemic. In today's episode, Lucy Keating first learned to sew on her grandmother’s Singer sewing machine. Today, she’s reviving her skills to make masks for COVID-19.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - A Dose Of Reality: What Lies Ahead For Covid-Covered America
When it comes to battling the covid-19 virus, it's not just that we’re not doing things right. It’s that we’re doing things wrong. And we’re doing them for the wrong reasons. We still have a chance to turn things around and save lives, but the future is going to look a lot different than we imagined a few months ago. NY Times’ science and health reporter Donald McNeil looks into that future in his latest article “The Coronavirus In America: The Year Ahead”
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Comedian Cameron Esposito’s New Memoir Is Painfully Funny
Comic Cameron Esposito talks about feeling different and alone growing up in the very straight, very Catholic, very bucolic western suburbs of Chicago in her sometimes painful, often hilarious new memoir Save Yourself
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Former CDC Director Talks About ‘Boxing In’ COVID-19
Former CDC chief Dr. Tom Frieden talks about what needs to be done now, and going forward, to make people safe and to beat back the spread of COVID-19