BREAKING: Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx announces her office is working with San Francisco-based nonprofit Code for America to scan #Illinois State Police records for low-level #cannabis convictions and "automatically clear tens of thousands" of them.

Ectopic pregnancies are the top cause of maternal mortality in the first trimester. They cannot be carried to term. Banning or delaying termination means forcing living, breathing human beings to bleed to death over medical fairytales. *That* is murder. vox.com/2019/9/11/2085…

It is disappointing to see many pundits obsessing over whether one candidate was deferential enough to another, while this crucial moment is barely being discussed. “Civility” is too often used as a dog whistle for tone policing, while concerning moments like these get a pass.

Programmers refer to finding and correcting mistakes in their programs as "debugging." But do you know where the term came from? Grace Hopper, 1st woman to get a PhD in Math, coined the term when A LITERAL MOTH WAS FOUND MESSING THINGS UP IN A COMPUTER. LITERAL DE-BUGGING

Finally, a way to eat chips while coding without greasing up your keyboard 👏👏

As part of a week of climate coverage on WBEZ, Ashish Valentine reports from the Straits of Mackinac in northern Michigan, where several tribes are applying lessons learned during the #StandingRock movement to try and decommission the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline. wbez.org/shows/worldvie…

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I don’t have a CS degree, I wrote my first Hello World in 2017 and got my first job less than 2 years ago. Now I work as a Software Engineer at Microsft. You don’t set the rules sir, it’s not how far but how well.

This new analysis of lead poisoning data shows Illinois has the 3rd highest number & 4th highest % of lead poisoned kids. We also have more lead water lines than any other state. This fall I'm researching how we can change that Curious City moderncastle.com/blog/usa-lead-…

Holler at my boy is you’re looking for a super talented Software Engineer.

When algorithms go wrong: The navy pier incident happened July 4th. But Google News and USA TODAY present it as if it was last week. Meanwhile Chicago new stories from WBEZ and other public service journalism shops barely show up in the feed despite optimizing for it.

Illinois Prison officials have directed staff to stop denying prisoners eye surgery under the so-called "one good eye" policy. The shift comes after a WBEZ investigation that found prisoners were told that one good eye is enough for a prisoner. wbez.org/shows/wbez-new…

Is this heaven? No, it's Chicago. A Christmas Eve present to start this morning. Panorama of this morning’s fog. #weather #news #ilwx #chicago

let yourself have a var-y merry const-mas

Who uses the '' ls '' command just after using the '' cd '' command?

I spent the last 6 months or so working on new WBEZ website, some of the most rewarding work I've done in my career. Here's an article I wrote about architecting the website and the technologies used: medium.com/wbez-codes/arc…

Chicago is in a historic moment—protests, unrest, and an ongoing pandemic. How are you feeling? What are you seeing in your community—and how are you responding? Leave us a voicemail 888-789-7752 or send a voice memo [email protected] and we might feature it in our podcast.

Today in 1919, long-brewing racial tensions came to a head when a black boy named Eugene Williams was drowned near a whites-only beach. Curious City looked into how the riots started, and how they helped create the highly segregated Chicago of today. ow.ly/ST0s50AJFsJ