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    Chicago Newsroom

    December 14, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by the Chicago Tribune‚Äôs Juan Perez, Jr. to discuss their recent series on Chicago‚Äôs shrinking high schools. They identified 17 designated neighborhood high schools whose populations have shrunk significantly in the last five years and whose very existence is now in question. In the case of Gage Park High School, for… View Article
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    Chicago Newsroom

    December 7, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by City of Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson to discuss the current round of collective bargaining agreement negotiations involving 90% of Chicago‚Äôs work force. They also discuss his sense that technology and greater professionalization of management has resulted in a significant reduction in street-level corruption among the work force. They also… View Article
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    Chicago Newsroom

    November 9, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by the co-founders of City Bureau. It‚Äôs a non-profit news organization that strives to train members of minority communities in Chicago as news reporters and trackers who attend all manner of public meetings to document the official proceedings with written reports and live tweets. They discuss the demise last week of… View Article
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    Chicago Newsroom

    November 9, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by The Chicago Tribune‚Äôs Jeremy Gorner to discuss the recent release of the City of Chicago‚Äôs Gun Trace Report. The report follows about 21,000 guns confiscated by the Chicago Police in the past three years and traces them back to their first owners and the stores or dealers from which they… View Article
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    Chicago Newsroom

    November 2, 2017
    Ken Davis is joined by Jessica Droeger and Jeff Radue, both organizers with Indivisible Chicago. They discuss their efforts to disengage Illinois from CrossCheck, a national program that compares voter rolls from multiple states to root out voter fraud, but has been shown to be a significant threat to data security and personal privacy. They… View Article
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