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The eldest Emanuel brother: Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel

By: Eilee Heikenen-Weiss | Feb. 20, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012

As the Emanuel brothers explained to Charlie Rose back in 2008, there was a healthy level of competition and debate in their household growing up. It seems to have served them well, though; each brother has become tremendously successful in his own field.

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Chicagoans may be most familiar with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but younger brother Ari is a Hollywood super-agent so notorious that one of the characters on the TV show, Entourage, is based on him. Rahm’s older brother, Ezekiel, is a prominent bioethicist who served as a special healthcare advisor to the Obama administration. Here’s what Rahm told Charlie Rose about his older brother in 2008:

“Ari and I always say this, this is going to be the guy that gets the Nobel Prize, there's no doubt about it in my view.

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New alternatives

By: Andrew Gill | Feb. 20, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012

The plan for Monday's show straight from director Jason Marck's email to your eyes. I'm sensing a loose theme of alternatives to the expected.

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Zeke Emanuel:  The “other” Emanuel is no less accomplished than his more high-profile brothers. Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel joins us to discuss his medical career and growing up in the Emanuel family.  Emanuel is a former healthcare adviser to President Obama and currently serves as Diane.S. Levy and Robert M.

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Top 3 at 3: Lessons from old emails

By: Kate Dries | Feb. 20, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012

I was recently forced into confronting a former self. That self exists in my former Yahoo account- a testament to my life in middle and high school. It's shocking, but I didn't always worship at the altar of Gmail and all that is Holy. 

This long dormant account took on a life of its own a few weeks ago, when it began spamming all my old contacts. Sure, many of them (like SurferChick1874) were no longer active, but it was irritating to those who had stayed faithful to their accounts in the interim years when I had moved on. I realized I needed to get in there and clean it out, to transfer the emails I found entertaining and worth saving, and delete all those from Change.org. Behold, a few things I've learned about the process of purging a former internet self:

1. It is totally worth it to incriminate yourself online, if it makes a good story in the end

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Fifth House Ensemble combine music with social media

By: Joe DeCeault | Feb. 20, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012

Less than a decade ago, social media forms like Facebook, Twitter and others were non-existent.  Yet today, they’re as ubiquitous as, say, music in our lives.  Both music and social media serve as narrative forms, in many senses.  And, each often play a role in our own individual (and group) narratives.  We use them both to help tell the stories of our lives.

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Chicago chamber group Fifth House Ensemble (5HE) brings together these forces in their latest series, In Transit.  The multi-media series takes place in four stories, each uniquely identified by its respective hashtag:  #undercoverhero, #thisrocks, #wink, #iwitness.

For #wink, the latest story in the ser

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What homemakers are really worth

By: Eight Forty-Eight | Feb. 20, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012

Here's what we're covering on Monday's Eight Forty-Eight. Stream the show live at 9 a.m.:

Listen to Tony Arnold talk about what we're covering this week

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Daybook:WBEZ editor Tony Arnold shares what stories the news room is following this week.

Homemaker value: Many studies have tried to calculate the monetary value of homemaking. Estimates often hit the six figure mark for stay-at-home women, but not for men. Janice D'Arcy, who writes the On Parenting blog for The Washington Post, explains the math. Pat Byrnes, the Chicago-based author of the Captain Dad blog, responds. Call 312.923.9239 to weigh in.

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Study calculates homemaker's real value near $100,000

By: Katie O'Brien | Feb. 20, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012

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Many people have tried to put a price tag on what--or who--makes a happy home over the years. But would you believe that the modern-day market value for a homemaker is estimated to be near six-figures?

That's according to a recent study by financial-investment site Mint.com. The study takes into account the "services" provided by a homemaker and what said services would net an individual in a professional environment--a private chef, a house cleaner, child-care provider, driver, lawn maintenance and laundress.

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The Morning Drive Podcast: Monday

By: Alex Keefe | Feb. 20, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012

Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.

In today's episode: What to expect from Gov. Quinn's budget address; Chicago school protesters on the North Shore?; Good day, Sunshine.

It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe.

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Top 3 at 3: Interesting local laws

By: Eilee Heikenen-Weiss | Feb. 17, 2012

Feb. 17, 2012

1) In Indiana, it’s illegal to buy or sell motorcycles on Sundays.
If you decide to celebrate the warm weather by purchasing a motorcycle, make sure you don't do it on a Sunday if you're in Indiana.  Otherwise, you could face a class B misdemeanor under current state law.

Indiana's Sunday ban on motorcycle sales is what's known as a blue law. Blue laws restrict the what citizens are allowed to purchase on Sundays. In Indiana, carryout liquor is also illegal to buy or sell on Sundays.

Indiana could soon lift its ban on Sunday motorcycle sales; proposed legislation legalizing Sunday sales has passed the Indiana Senate and recently cleared the House Commerce Committee. 

2) Normal, Illinois has an interesting law on its books, but maybe not the one you've heard of...

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