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Courtney Kueppers | WBEZ

Courtney Kueppers is a digital producer/reporter at WBEZ. Prior to joining WBEZ full time, she worked part-time on the digital desk throughout grad school. In addition to WBEZ, her reporting in Chicago has been published by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader and South Side Weekly. She previously lived in Atlanta, where she worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR affiliate. She originally hails from Minnesota and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Northwestern University.

The beloved neighborhood bakery has been through a lot in the past three years.
“The Last of Us” is a hit series, but the museum’s collection of more than 200,000 fungal specimens offers a reality check about the bug-killing menace.
The day United Flight 553 crashed in Chicago “was just like someone dropped a big, huge anvil on the ground.”
In the first citywide singing contest, Chicago Sings Karaoke, Jason E. Jackson beat out 540 others to take the top prize of $5,000. Mayor Lori Lightfoot belts out ‘Dancing in the Street.’
Less than 10% of eligible residents have rolled up their sleeves for updated vaccines.
The filmmakers used a small drone equipped with a GoPro camera to fly through the nooks and crannies of Wrigley Field and the neighboring area.
In Chicago, 65% of the doses administered to date have gone to white residents.
La FDA ha autorizado el nuevo refuerzo y se espera que casi 2 millones de residentes sean elegibles.
Cook County Health hasn’t diagnosed anyone with monkeypox in four days, officials there say.