Artist Gregg Bordowitz On The AIDS Crisis, New Exhibit In Chicago
Gregg Bordowitz’s new exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is an overview of his 30-plus-year career and the ongoing AIDS crisis.
Gregg Bordowitz’s new exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is an overview of his 30-plus-year career and the ongoing AIDS crisis.
Morning Shift broadcasts live from the Wintrust Arena to mark the inauguration of Chicago’s next mayor: Lori Lightfoot.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death among Hispanic and Latina women living in the United States. Morning Shift takes a look at a new pop-up that is raising money for cancer survivors by knitting breast prostheses. We also talk to Katherine Tossas-Milligan, a cancer epidemiologist and research assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, about the barriers Hispanic women face when it comes to access to health services.
Morning Shift digs into the biggest local news stories of the week in our Friday News Roundup with Jenn White.
The goal of Getting To Zero Illinois is to eliminate HIV transmissions across the state by increasing access to treatment and resources.
Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot takes office on Monday and one of her main campaign promises may prove to be too big a rock to push up the proverbial hill: cleaning up the corruption in City Hall.The former federal prosecutor is no stranger to cracking down on public corruption, but City Inspector General Joe Ferguson says that Lightfoot—and for that matter, the new City Council—faces an urgent need to boost oversight and accountability. Much of that oversight is supposed to come from some of the council’s 16 legislative committees. But a new report from ProPublica Illinois suggests the city council’s committees have failed to provide even a basic level of oversight, and have instead historically been used by Chicago’s mayors to reward political favor from loyalist aldermen. Morning Shift checks in with ProPublica Illinois reporter Mick Dumke for more on the hurdles the new mayor may face in trying to crack down on corruption and mismanagement.
The sun is peeking out today, and it’s supposed to stick around for the rest of the week—and just in time for the opening today of the riverwalk! Designed by Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney, the Chicago Riverwalk is an open one-and-a-quarter mile-long path that runs along the south bank of the Chicago River from Lake Shore Drive to Lake Street… and it has a little something for everyone. The folks at the Riverwalk are ready with a whole slew of events to celebrate summer all season long, starting with a week-long line-up of events that kick off today.
It’s another newsy week in Chicago and Illinois, and Morning Shift’s Friday News Roundup breaks down the top stories.
More than two years after Mayor Emanuel promised a “crackdown” to boost recycling efforts in the city, an investigation by the Better Government Association finds that it never really happened.
The region’s infrastructure appears to be falling apart. Will lawmakers act?