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As we are now in the colder months as well as the holiday season, where gatherings become more frequent, COVID cases and hospitalizations are surging. And while the omicron variant has yet to be detected in Illinois, health officials have a degree of certainty that it has already arrived and is just a matter of time before we find it. The 21st was joined by a professor of microbiology to discuss the new variant and the state of the pandemic.
As the holiday season approaches, so too does the time for holiday concerts. We were joined by music directors from two Illinois orchestras to talk about programming this year's holiday concerst, approaching concerts during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how to keep these concerts interesting for performers year after year.
Illinois has lots of places to see, things to do, and history to explore, but it also has a lot of strange attractions and obscure history. The 21st was joined by an Illinois native who's has taken to Tik Tok to share her far reaching explorations of the Prairie State.
After a massive influx to Chicago during the Great Migration, many Black residents are leaving the city. To talk more about the out-migration of Chicago’s black residents, we were joined by the CEO of an resident association, a professor of Urban Planning, a Chicago bakery owner and former professor, and a former Chicago resident who left the city a few years ago.
How worried should we be about the current inflation surge? And how exactly did we get here? And what can we do in the meantime to budget accordingly?
