DAVID GREENE, HOST: Chicago passed a grim milestone recently. The city has seen more than 700 homicides this year, that's more than any other major U.S. city. Of course, that startling number does not begin to tell the whole story. As we're about to

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 31 July 2006 watch Living Wage report Lawmakers in the Midwest U.S. city of Chicago have approved a measure requiring large-scale discount stores to pay their employees a so-called living wage. As VOA's George Dwyer

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University Plans To Demolish Ronald Reagans Chicago Apartment Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan spent much of his life in California, but residents in the Midwestern state of Illinois note proudly that he was born and raised there. He spent a brief

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Chicago Gears Up for Annual Blues Festival Blues fans from around the world will descend upon Grant Park in downtown Chicago for three free days of acoustic and electric blues by mostly-hometown musicians. You can count on the citys very own Lil Ed T

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Next week, the south side of Chicago gets something it hasn't had in decades - a high-level adult trauma center at the University of Chicago Hospital. Trauma centers treat people with the most acute wounds, including gunshot injuri

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[00:20.20]Walt Disney 华尔特迪士尼 [00:43.09]emigrate 移走,迁出 [00:50.05]Walt Disney's ancestors had emigrated from Gowran, [00:54.25]County Kilkenny in Ireland. [00:57.26]His father Elias Disney had moved to the United States [01:01.99]after his p

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Activists: Protests Over Chicago Schools Continue King's Work CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Dr. Martin Luther King spent time in the midwest U.S. city of Chicago in the mid 1960s to promote open housing and equality in public schools. Five decades after his inte

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Chicago's Ukrainian Community Prays for Peace in Ukraine 芝加哥美籍乌克兰人社区为乌克兰和平祈祷 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS As Chicago's large Ukrainian American community begins to observe the Christian season of Lent, many are turning to t

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Under Pressure, Tronc Recognizes 'Chicago Tribune' Union RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Chicago Tribune has taken a big step closer to unionizing for the first time in the paper's 170-year history. The Tribune's owner Tronc has agreed to negotiate with a u

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Washington is pretty quiet these days with Congress out of session. The action today is in Chicago, where the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department. DOJ recently announced they would withhol

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RACHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: Journalists at the Chicago Tribune say they're one step closer to unionizing. They voted overwhelmingly in favor of it and have given the paper's owners 24 hours to respond. It's a big turnaround for the paper, which has histor

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RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Let's turn to the city of Chicago. It's been a momentous year in Chicago in part because of the continued spike in violent crime. A poet is trying to change the reasons people talk about his hometown. Kevin Coval has been called Chi

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University Of Chicago Tells Freshmen It Does Not Support 'Trigger Warnings' play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:23repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update

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101-Year-Old Chicago Cubs Fan Hopes Beloved Team Grants Her Birthday Wish play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0002:28repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update y

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By Paula Wolfson White House 16 September 2009 President Obama (r) and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on the South Lawn of the White House, 16 Sep 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama is emphasizing his support for the Olympic movement at a crucial time fo

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By Tom Rivers London 02 October 2009 Video: Obama Olympic Bid Download (WM) In an impassioned final pitch to members of the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen, President Barack Obama made the case Friday for the mid-Western U.S. city of C

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Chicago Protesters Look for Permanent Home Violence has flared up again in Oakland, California, where police and Occupy protesters have clashed. However, the protests around the country have been largely peaceful, including in the city of Chicago, wh

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By Kane Farabaugh Chicago 02 October 2009 Farabaugh TV Report Download (WM) Chicagoans show disappointment at city's loss of bid for 2016 Olympics, 2 Oct 2009 For more than two years, the city of the Chicago has led an unprecedented effort to bring

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More Children Fall Victim To Street Shootings Amid Spike In Chicago DAVID GREENE, HOST: So far this year, nearly 370 children in the United States who are 12 years old or younger have been harmed or killed by gunfire. This is according to the non-pro

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My Most Unforgettable Character 我 最 难 忘 的 人 She challenged us to succeed--and then showed us the way. 她激励我们要有所建树:并一直为我们指点迷津。 [1]In June 1976, I graduated from North-western University Medical Sc

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