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When the 47th Annual Chicago Pride Parade takes place later this month, there will be extra security measures in place as a result of the mass shooting in Orlando.  Organizers say the parade will have a moment of silence and other elements to honor the victims, but that the event will still be a celebration.  Morning Shift talks with parade coordinator Richard Pfeiffer about how Chicago Pride is adapting in the wake of the Orlando attack.

Morning Shift talks to listeners about whether the mass shooting in Orlando has made them think differently about security in public spaces and venues like nightclubs, restaurants and theaters

In one of the biggest technology mergers of all time, tech giant Microsoft has agreed to acquire the social networking site LinkedIn for a whopping $26.2 billion.  LinkedIn serves as a sort of digital business card for more than 400 million users. In recent years, the site has also transformed into a clearing house for content of interest to people in the business world.  But the news comes as a big surprise to the millions of LinkedIn user who only use LinkedIn when they are looking for a new job, if at all.  Morning Shift talks with Washington Post technology reporter Brian Fung about the details of deal, what it means for consumers and how LinkedIn compares with other social networks.  We also talk to John Nemo, author or Linkedin Riches, about how people actually use LinkedIn, which is a mystery to people who visit the site, say, once a year to update their resumes.

A day after an attack on a nightclub in Orlando left 50 people dead, we look at the political issues that rise to the front when the U.S. faces a mass shooting. Morning Shift speaks to Illinois Rep. Robin Kelly, who has called gun violence an American public health epidemic, about how this event will affect the national conversation on gun control.  Dig Deeper:From NPR News: Orlando Sees Worst Mass Shooting On U.S. Soil: What We Know MondayFrom WBEZ News: Chicago Mourns With Orlando

In the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S., Morning Shift looks at the history of gun control in the U.S. with Adam Winkler, a UCLA professor who specializes in constitutional law. From NPR News: Orlando Sees Worst Mass Shooting On U.S. Soil: What We Know MondayFrom WBEZ News: Chicago Mourns With Orlando

On Sunday morning, Americans woke to the news of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.  Morning Shift opens the phones to hear reactions from our listeners. Dig Deeper:From NPR News: Orlando Sees Worst Mass Shooting On U.S. Soil: What We Know MondayFrom WBEZ News: Chicago Mourns With Orlando

Faith Salie has spent her life striving for the best. She was a top student and a Rhodes Scholar. She has an Emmy and serves as a panelist on Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me. But in her new memoir, she says a lot of those accomplishments were driven by a need to please others. Salie joins us to talk about Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much.

Mourners gather in Louisville Friday for the funeral of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. That city was his hometown, but he also had deep ties to Chicago. After he refused to fight in the Vietnam War, he stepped out of the ring for some time and focused on his commitment to the Nation of Islam. This period brought him to Chicago, where he grew stronger in his faith and eased into life on the South Side.  In These Times editor and WVON host Salim Muwakkil met Ali a few years after Ali lived here. He joins us to explain how Chicago shaped Ali. We also talk with filmmaker Bill Siegel about his award-winning documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali.

Maryiah Winding is a rising senior at the School of the Art Institute from the South Side of Chicago with a big idea. She wants to develop a rap therapy program that would allow urban youth to grapple with their feelings and deal with trauma through hip hop and rap music.  This summer, Maryiah is moderating a series of events where rappers perform a cappella and then talk about how their music helped them cope with challenging aspects in their lives. Morning Shift talks to Winding about making rap therapy a reality.

After several months with no CEO, Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism arm, announced that David Whitaker, a former tourism executive for Miami, Toronto and the good old US of A will lead the organization.  Morning Shift talks to Whitaker about some of the challenges of luring people to the Windy City, including Chicago’s gun violence.