Chase Bank is planning to increase home lending to African American and Latino families in Chicago to the tune of $600 million dollars. The bank wants to address some big inequities revealed by WBEZ this past summer.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Linda ...
The future of Chicago’s iconic sketch comedy club and improv school The Second City is in flux. Longtime owner Andrew Alexander stepped down in June as CEO after former and current performers accused Second City of racism and sexism.
Host: Mary Dixon
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The Chicago Reporter has produced investigative reporting on racial and economic inequality for decades. But alumni of the Reporter say they’ve learned that the owner, the Community Renewal Society, recently put the publication on hiatus and removed it...
Young Chicagoans are signing up in droves to work the polls this year compared to 2016, according to an age breakdown of a “record” number of applicants from the Chicago Board of Elections. The Board is creating a list of back-up judges after already a...
Chicago plant stores are thriving during the pandemic as plant lovers flock to them, particularly in Latino communities. Some Latinos have turned their deep cultural connections with plants into successful businesses.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Maria ...
Bill Durkin reflects on the life of his younger brother Bob, who was estranged from the family for decades before a late-in-life reunion. He spoke with his friend Casey McCarthy, the two were recorded by StoryCorps.
Producer: Billy Healy
The previously unreported allegations were outlined in a recently unsealed motion as part of Kelly’s divorce proceedings.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Patrick Smith
Classes are starting to open up for in-person learning across the region, and some teachers say they feel safe with their school’s plan.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Susie An
Affordable housing is a scarce commodity. Today hundreds of units on the South Side are being auctioned off. There’s no guarantee the housing will remain affordable.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Linda Lutton
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to reduce Chicago’s high levels of gun violence relies heavily on street outreach organizations.
The work means almost daily contact with trauma and pain, and many of these outreach workers have their own past trauma...
During Tuesday night’s presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace asked President Donald Trump if he would condemn white supremacists. Odette Yousef looks at the beginnings of the youth white supremacist movement in the U.S. and in Chicago in the WBE...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot today is releasing a 108-page plan to tackle the city’s long running gun violence problem. Susan Lee, Chicago’s Deputy Mayor For Public Safety, spoke about the new violence reduction plan, which outlines a “public health” ...
Early voting has started in Illinois. Millions of ballots have been mailed out to voters who already requested them. Still, many people are afraid they won't be able to make sure their vote is counted this year.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Claudia Mo...
For the first time since 2008, both of Chicago’s Major League Baseball teams are headed to the playoffs. This week the Cubs will face the Miami Marlins at Wrigley Field, and the Sox are traveling to Oakland to take on the A’s.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporte...
On Saturday, President Donald Trump nominated appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be the country’s next Supreme Court justice. Barrett serves on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and is a law professor at Notre Dame in Indiana.
Host: Ma...
Ed Vulliamy’s memoir Louder than Bombs: A Life with War, Music, and Peace, tells the stories of the artists, songs, and concerts that influenced him most. In his career as a journalist and war correspondent, Vulliamy has traveled the globe, bearing witness to many of the most important political and musical moments of the past fifty years. This playlist plays tribute to just a few of the many songs mentioned in Louder than Bombs. It follows some of Vulliamy’s favorite musical memories: Buying blues records in Chicago, working as an extra in the Vienna State Opera’s production of Aida, drinking coffee with Joan Baez, listening to Jimi Hendrix playing “Machine Gun” at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, and seeing B. B. King perform live in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi in 2013. Listen below or at Spotify Read an excerpt from Literary Hub: Everybody’s Here for Mr. B.B. King in Indianola, Mississippi: Ed Vulliamy Feels the Love for the King of the Blues Ed Vulliamy is a former reporter for the Guardian and Observer. He is the author of Amexica: War Along the Borderline and The War is Dead, Long Live the War—Bosnia: The Reckoning. Louder than Bombs is available now from our website or your […]
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From problems transferring patients to concerns about hospital staffing, WBEZ follows up to see what, if anything, has changed.
Host: Marie Lane, Lisa Labuz
Reporter: Kristen Schorsch
Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago asked over 2,000 parents about their most pressing concerns and challenges when it comes to teens and social media. During the pandemic social media is one of the few ways young people can still have social interact...