As the Chicago Sky were striving for their first WNBA championship, WBEZ heard from fans about why they like following the league. Host: Araceli Gómez-Aldana Reporter: Lauren Frost
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This fall, after a year when many students stayed home, classroom antics are more serious and frequent... including some prompted by social media challenges. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Susie And
Northwestern University Professor Andrew Papachristos speaks about the early promises of an anti-violence strategy known as street outreach. Host: Lisa Labuz; Reporter: Patrick Smith
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx says Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is playing politics with the city’s murder crisis, in the latest back-and-forth over who is to blame for the city’s gun violence epidemic. Host: Melba Lara; Reporter: Patrick Smith...
This fall, WBEZ education reporters are checking in with students and educators to see how in-person learning is going as the pandemic continues. Reina Torres is a junior at Curie High School on Chicago’s Southwest Side. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Adr...
Poet and literary scholar Srikanth Reddy has been appointed the new editor of the University of Chicago Press’s Phoenix Poets series, making him the first publicly named editor of the series since the 1990s. Reddy will serve with three consulting editors: poets Rosa Alcalá, Douglas Kearney, and Katie Peterson. Launching
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Doctor Christy Rollinson from the Morton Arboretum speaks with WBEZ's Greta Johnsen on whether periods of drought, and above-normal temperatures this summer will impact autumn leaves. Host: Melba Lara; Producer: Lauren Frost
There's a new winged dinosaur in the scientific record. Doctor Jingmai O'Connor, paleontologist and associate curator of fossil reptiles with the Field Museum, helped find it. Host: Mary Dixon; Producer: Cianna Greaves
Curtis Harrison, the owner of a sprawling Buick convertible, takes an evening cruise and shares his love of classic cars from the ’70s. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Chip Mitchell
Some Chicago parents are getting ready to go back inside schools, to help students and teachers in the classroom. Host: Lisa Labuz; Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad
The singer’s Chicago attorney says Kelly’s Brooklyn defense team made a mistake by trying to “victim blame” witnesses. Host: Lisa Labuz; Reporter: Patrick Smith
WBEZ’s Lisa Labuz spoke with Chicago historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas about what the American Negro Exposition in 1940 meant for Chicago. Host: Mary Dixon; Producer: Cianna Greaves
Greg Johnson, the district superintendent of Oak Park and River Forest High School in the western suburbs, shares what it’s been like this year, adjusting back to in-person learning as the pandemic continues. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Susie An
The University of Chicago Press is pleased to celebrate our friend and author Marjorie Perloff today on her 90th birthday. One of the leading scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetics, Perloff’s work has been widely published and translated, and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
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Doctor Juanita Mora, an allergist with the Chicago Allergy Center and a spokesperson for the American Lung Association, talks about the effect of climate change on allergies. Host: Lisa Labuz; Producer: Lauren Frost
A civil-rights group wants the governor to commute sentences for 43 people whose mental health and behavior deteriorated in solitary. Host: Lisa Labuz; Reporter: Shannon Heffernan