Ideas. Having been born and raised in the amazing city and now raising my own family down the street i feel incredible by proud to call myself a true blue chicagoan. Anybody else feel that way . [cheers and applause] thank you. Makes me prouder to be part of the fantastic chicago idea team who works each and every day to challenge our city and the world beyond, to share ideas and inspire action and ignite change. Chicago ideas is all about deep curiosity and pursuing connectivity, so in that spirit because who doesnt love a good friday night ice breaker, i would like for you to take a moment to turn to a person that you dont know and introduce yourself and share why you are here tonight and share what youre most trusted source of political news might be. [laughter] might be a little bit of oxymoron. I will give you 60 seconds. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. All right. Its tough for me to try to get the room back, you guys. If i can, everyone. If i can get eve
They needed a dance. They grew up in bolivia. They didnt know. My mother got raised in west mondale and every sunday without any changes, everybody went over to the house. Host this is your whole life you went on sunday. Guest every sunday, third floor, kids running around, people screaming and yelling which is a conversation. They are all arguing about politics. Everybody is yelling and screaming. He would bang on the table when he wanted to be heard and that was his voice. Host what about that piece that you would make something of yourself . Guest part of that host the famous agent. Guest i would not recommend a bedside manner but i dont want to get too close, my parents to their credit raised us with a sense of responsibility to keep up with their life and not going to just pass through. Host were they saying that to you . Guest there was nothing no inflicted it was explicit. I was a total slacker. When you walked into our house you walked in to the refrigerator side. What is on th
Peep peoples feelings about the confederate war. I think students in the classroom and general readers want to know how people feel about these issues. So i got interested with a colleague i worked with for many years, jim downs, and we put together a series. We had a panel called history in the headlines, and we got historians to talk about how we wanted to make sure we were plugged in to these larger issues. We put out a topic that is a burning issue. Certainly the confederate statues and memorialization, when we put it together a roundtable of scholars in 2017, published in 2019. We wanted to really address something that could be contemporary and fresh. We discussed silent sam, the statue on the university of north carolina, the protests against it, wanting to pull it down. The board of overseers taking a stand against removing it. More protests to follow and then eventually the sale of it is a really interesting issue, money being donated for the removal. This, i know, happened at
Out of his still in the but love that we may keep one another healthy and safe. It will therefore be unusual but mr. Speaker this legislation represents a bipartisan resolve to me the coronavirus challenge. It represents a focus on families and workers to the objective to make them safer and economically supported. It will protect workers and their families and our economy as we all do our part to flatten the curve. Public Health Officials made it clear that the only chance we have to prevent them from getting overwhelmed is for as Many Americans to stay home as possible. It is however necessary to be here, to pass legislation, respond on behalf of thees American People to the daunting challenge. Closure means large parts of the economy are temporarily shut down causing severe disruption for businesses and workers. We saw the impact of this yesterday with the new Unemployment Insurance claims increased by more than 3 Million People. 3million individuals. 3million families rely on them
Outbreak to hit City Health Officials say it is not a matter of if but when Health Officials announced 2 new cases of coronavirus in Santa Clara County. This brings the total number of crowd of iraq fires cases in that county to 9 in San Mateo County Officials Say one resident has tested. Presumptive positive for coronavirus which means the person has tested positive at a Public Health lab. Officials are awaiting additional confirmation testing from the cdc has new cases with unknown are just begin to pop of understanding the risk of cor navirus has become more and more important. The cdc says at this point we should all be prepared for more cases to emerge across the United States kron fours well bellow spoke with an Infectious Disease expert at u c berkley is she standing by live with more well thats right the head of Infectious Diseases at u c berkeley doctor lee riley says. This is an outbreak it is an epidemic after comparing it to sars and mers he believes there are 3 likely outc