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After analyzing publicly available attendance records for meetings between May 2019 and December 2021, WBEZ, Crain’s and The Daily Line found that City Council members overall attended 81% of the meetings they were required to be at.

CHICAGO — Thomas Fisher figured he would end up in the very place he works, in the emergency room. Eventually, everyone passes through. Two springs ago, at the onset of the pandemic, he thought he might die of the thing he was treating in others. He updated his will, removed…

A law firm’s investigators, hired by the suburb, found that officials badly mishandled young, female lifeguards’ complaints of abuse and harassment by supervisors.

Those ambulance rides stopped about a year ago — in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic — during a dire nursing shortage in the ER of the Bronzeville hospital, formerly known as Mercy Hospital.

The sexual misconduct scandals at the Chicago Park District and Evanston beaches have revealed that young female lifeguards and beach workers are often surrounded by predatory supervisors and co-workers.

After WBEZ inquired about who is receiving the therapeutics, the Illinois Department of Public Health asked pharmacies to track it. "That is a big concern," said Dr. Arti Barnes, the department’s chief medical officer.

In text messages to a manager, a former lifeguard described being assaulted by him while unconscious. More than 50 female current or former beach workers came forward last year with accusations of sexual abuse and harassment.

CNN’s Laura Coates, former Republican Governor of Illinois Jim Edgar and WBEZ’s Dave McKinney joined our hosts At The Table on Feb. 17 for a conversation on Biden’s Supreme Court pick, the gubernatorial primary, key congressional races and Trump’s influence on state and national politics.

The long-unprofitable Chicago Sun-Times, which sold just over four years ago for $1, has been reborn as a nonprofit newspaper with $61 million in backing through a potentially groundbreaking merger with public radio station WBEZ-FM 91.5.