July 2021

LONDON / BEIJING, July 23 (Reuters) - A new global wave of COVID-19. Natural disasters in China and Germany. A cyber attack targeting the main South African ports.Events conspired to drive global supply chains to a breaking point,…

Illinois health officials on Friday reported 7,983 new cases of COVID-19 in the past week, as well as 47 additional deaths and more than 139,000 new doses of the vaccine administered. A total of 1,407,929 coronavirus cases…

Recently, in a YouTube video, an African American, Dr.George C. Fraser, cited a study that if nothing changes, it will take African Americans 228 years, if ever, to close the wealth gap between black and white Americans, but it will take…

Posted: July 23, 2021 / 11:57 CDT / Updated: July 23, 2021 / 12:03 CDT ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Croatia and Montenegro have tightened the rules against the novel!-->…

Lauren Weber ST. LOUIS - The day after Missouri Governor Mike Parson wrapped up his bicentennial bus tour to boost tourism to the state in mid-July, Chicago issued a travel advisory regarding visiting Missouri. Earlier this…

This was the final meeting of our two-year trip as the Chicago Community, Media & Research Partnership - a working group of researchers, community groups and journalists discussing best practices for disseminating research that can…

As I watched Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, focused towards some tough questions in front of Congress last week, my mind returned to October 2008, when the Maestro himself, Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, went…

The Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company stands on Clark Street are small. But all six of us got together pretty well last Thursday night. Admittedly, when my towel slipped off my knee and onto the floor, I only momentarily…

VAN HORN, Texas (AP) - Jeff Bezos exploded in space on Tuesday during his rocket company's first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to pilot his own spacecraft . The Amazon founder was…

Level Ex, a maker of medical video games for physicians, recently announced their new game called Top Derm, a mobile medical game for the field of dermatology.1 This is the company's fifth specialty-specific game and covers several topics…