Cheryl Raye-Stout

Oct 9, 2024 | wbez.org | Mike Puente |Adriana Cardona-Maguigad |Noah Jennings |Cheryl Raye-Stout |Clare Lane

As the war in Ukraine continues – Lurie Children's pediatric psychologist Doctor Lauren Pothoff advises Ukrainian charity workers and therapists about how to support kids who are struggling there. On the heels of a 7-day trip volunteering with Voices of Children – a Ukraine based fund that provides mental health services to children caught up in armed conflict. Pothoff told WBEZ’s Clare Lane what she saw.

Oct 7, 2024 | wbez.org | Noah Jennings |Cheryl Raye-Stout

I’ll be running in the marathon for the third time. For my colleague Adriana Cardona-Maguidad, it will be her first marathon. So I thought it would be fun to talk about why we’re both running it – what we hope next week looks like – and how we’ve been preparing.

Oct 4, 2024 | wbez.org | Jon Seidel |Tony Arnold |Tessa Weinberg |Cheryl Raye-Stout

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear an appeal from convicted former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, signaling more close scrutiny of federal prosecutions in Chicago and across the country. A jury found Thompson guilty in February 2022 of two counts of lying to regulators and five counts of filing false income tax returns. U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama sentenced the heir to the Daley political dynasty to four months in prison.

Oct 2, 2024 | wbez.org | Jon Seidel |Tessa Weinberg |Cheryl Raye-Stout |Courtney Kueppers

A federal judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss criminal charges leveled against former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan involving an alleged bribery scheme at ComEd, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer that threatened the feds’ case against the powerful former politician. U.S. District Judge John Blakey’s ruling came down less than a week before Madigan is set to face trial, and less than an hour before a status hearing in the high-profile case.

Oct 1, 2024 | wbez.org | Cheryl Raye-Stout

In Chicago, if you were to be shot today - you’d be more likely to die from your injuries than you would have been 13 years ago. That’s the finding of a new report from nonprofit news outlet The Trace. It’s a stunning reversal of long-term trends, in which faster response times and better medical care had for years improved the chances of surviving a gunshot.