fascinated about that yeah so for me i played football for 17 years grew up high school went to illinois state university played my freshman sophomore engineer their. pride and my role on the teams and had 2 outstanding all-american teams and i don't i stay in one draft in 2014 to the chargers and then i got cut 3 different times to 3 different teams between the eagles and the raiders and i was just spinning my tires and i was realizing hey this isn't going to be a 1012 year career so i need to figure out what's next for me you know i was practice squad all 3 seasons and i took pride in it had a lot of had a lot of fun with my teammates but i just wasn't filling me any more you know just in that role while you know it was a necessary role for a team to have i just didn't find pride any more so when i got my final injury i decided it was time to sir pack up and not return boy you know when i watch the $24.00 seventh's show each year you think boy they make good not only is it a brutal sport physically obviously but i can't believe how little fun some some of the coaches was that at some point you've got t

university. >>> the state of illinois in the central u.s. is trying to cope with nearly 900 new covid-19 cases including 31 new deaths. the total number of confirmed cases statewide is now more than 11,000 people. as the crisis worsens, the governor of illinois and president trump have been criticizing each other over the response to the pandemic. >> i hear him, he's always complaining and yet i just said give me a list of some of the things we've done in illinois and we're building a 2,500 bed hospital in mccormick place. that's a big convention center in chicago. and we're helping to staff it and probably will end up staffing it because he's not able too do what you're supposed to be able to do as a governor. he has not performed well. >> the president does not understand the word federal. federal emergency management agency. if they had started in february building ventilators, getting ready for this pandemic, we would not have the problems that we have today and frankly very many fewer people would die. >> and that convention center turn

illinois university press. a review at civil war monitors states, students of the 16th president will want to add this concise thought-provoking and sensitively written volume to their bookshelves. please welcome me in joining -- please join me in welcoming brian dark. >> hello everybody it's great to be here. i want to thank you for the invitation. i've gotten to see some old friends, among many my come pinion in korea, fred. we had fun. meaning lots of wonderful people. you are heroes, everybody in this room is a hero to a group of students at anderson university who are going to get tomorrow off because i am here. they love the lincoln form. they are like doctor dirk. how fun, take your time. if you want to tour the battlefield, do it. do it twice. we will struggle without you. the lincoln forum scholarship programs, if you would contact the 42 students who would normally be in my 9 am morning class not get to sleep in i would imagine you would get some money out of those kids if you really work at it a little bit. really thank you very much for inviting me this has been a wonderful experience. as john was pointing out my l

state. and nurses around the country continue to shine light on the dire lack of personanal protecte equipment, or ppe, and understaffing around the country. the university of illinois hospital and the illinois nurses association announced an agreement to provide nurses with hazard pay for the duration of the state's stay-at-home order. after headlines, we'll head to harlem hospital where nurses are staging a strike just today, speaking to organizer registered nurse sarah dowd. in otherer news about the pandemic, a tiger at the bronx zoo has tested positivive for covid-19. at least four other tigers and lions at the zoo also exhibited symptoms consistent with the coronavirus. the infection is believed to be the result of human-to-cat transmission. in environmental news, construction on the keystone xl pipeline is set to resume amid the coronavirus crisis. officials in alberta, canada, said they would hand over more than $1 billion dollars to tc energy, formerly known a as transcanada, so that construction can continue, even though it risks putting construction workers and residents on the pipeleline's ph -- m many of t them fromom indis communities at heightened ris

university of chicago medicine. why don't you give us a sketch on the latest on the coronavirus pandemic in chicago, across the state of illinoisone is the peak expected? guest: tough questions off the bat. illinois is going pretty well. we are seeing a lot of new cases every d

university of chicago medicine. why don't you give us a sketch on the latest on the coronavirus pandemic in chicago, across the state of illinois, and one is the peak expected? guest: tough questions off the bat. illinois is going pretty well. we are seeing a lot of new cases every day, more than we want to see, and the university of chicago has about 100 patients admitted on average every day with coronavirus. we are doing just fine. ppere stretched with our but have enough to get us through this time now. we prepared for the surge of patients and are prepared should the numbers get higher. the stay-at-home order in illinois is making a difference. see it helping to us flatten out the curve, and a steady run in the hospital to be able to manage those patients. we have a lot of critically ill patients across the state of illinois, and you have seen the demographics that suggest illinois and chicago, the demographic is affecting our african-american population a lot more than some of our white neighborhoods. takee doing our best to care of them and provide outstanding care. i think you wanted to know when this will all end, and

health officials along with university officials say they're in contact with all of the people who went on this trip. >> reporter: i'm omar jimenez in chicago. the state of illinoisdical supplies from the federal government, supplies they say they are going to need, especially ventilators. governor j.b. pritzker says they've requested an additional 4,000 ventilators, but at this point, they've only received about 450 of them, and this comes as the state of illinois just saw its deadliest day yet due to coronavirus, as the death toll jumped by 26 and cases almost jumped by 1,000. in the words of governor pritzker, "we are going to run out of ventilators and the federal government really isn't helping at all." >> reporter: i'm dianne gallagher in atlanta, georgia. about one-third of the deaths in this state come from the small town of el benny where they have been hit hard, their county experiencing more than 30 deaths at this point. the governor saying that much of it able to stem right to a funeral that took place and just exploded from there. now the national guard has been called in to help this small town put together additional icus. there were normally three

university of illinois at chicago. i taught there from 2000 to 2015 i had been in the blessed state of retirement.etired in order to work more. i finish this book that came out in the fall on why liberalism works. i have a new book coming up from the university of chicago president in the fall which is kind of a pop version of all of these. it's called leave me alone and i will make you rich. this is the boudoir trilogy the most recent bourgeois technique. it is the french word for towns person. the leader of the town. the merchants it was in fact a common term for that english. about 1800. before the basic idea was there were priests and the nobility and then everyone else. the third estate. and it's only in the last couple of centuries that we started to make distinctions among the various people. and my point is really to argue against my friends on both the left in the right who are contentious a business like my grandfather he wasn't contemptuous he was an electrical contractor. that is an honorable thing to do. if you're not cheating. you are doing your wiring of airports and been paid for i

university of illinois chicago? guest: no, taught there from 2002 may 2015 but i have been in the blessed state of retirement and i recommendt to you all. i retired to work more is my joke and i finished my trilogy on the economic and social history of the last century and finished this book that came out in the fall while liberalism works and i have a new book coming out from chicago press in the fall which is kind of a pop version called "leave me alone and i will make you rich ". host: you talked about your trilogy and this is abu joo trilogy, blue joo dignity, the most recent blue joo equality, what is that definition? >> it is the french word for it counts person and usually it's too mean the leaders of the town, the merchants and manufacturers and so forth. it was in fact the common term for that class in english before the phrase middle-class became common around 1800 they started calling them in english middle-class. before the basic idea was they were priests, though nobility and then everyone else, the third states and it's only in the last couple of centuries we started to make decisions among the various people

university says 1041 people died in the golden state because of covid-19 today, california became the 8th state to reach the 1000 mark following new york, new jersey michigan, louisiana, massachusetts, illinois and connecticut, 29,198 people are infected in the united states more than 37,000 deaths with close to 702,000 cases and across the globe more than 154,000 people have lost their lives and more than 2 million people have the virus here in the bay area there are more than 6,000 cases and a 196 reported deaths and are you stream you can see how the numbers break down county by county santa clara county still leads the bay area with 73 deaths. >>and more than 1800 cases. alameda county has 40 deaths 28 deaths in san mateo county 20 in san francisco. back to our top story tonight, a daly city fathers out of the hospital after battling covid-19 for almost a month. his community came together today to celebrate his victory. kron four's dan thorn was there for the event. >>showered with applause ken lewis taking in the fresh air while taking his first steps out of the hospital. >>it's the end of a long fought battle with covid-19. more than 30 days away from his family, he is now back home i

university of chicago medicine. why don't you give us a sketch on the latest on the coronavirus pandemic in chicago, across the state of illinoisand one is the peak expected? guest: tough questions off the bat. illinois is going pretty well. we are seeing a lot of new cases every day, more than we want to see, and the university of chicago has about 100 patients admitted on average every day with coronavirus. we are doing just fine. ppere stretched with our but have enough to get us through this time now. we prepared for the surge of patients and are prepared should the numbers get higher. the stay-at-home order in illinois is making a difference. see it helping to us flatten out the curve, and a steady run in the hospital to be able to manage those patients. we have a lot of critically ill patients across the state of illinois, and you have seen the demographics that suggest illinois and chicago, the demographic is affecting our african-american population a lot more than some of our white neighborhoods. takee doing our best to care of them and provide outstanding care. i think you wanted to know when this will all end, and th