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Podcast: In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons
Episode: WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap, Aug. 8, 2025
Description: The FBI is said to be helping find Democratic Texas legislators who fled to Illinois. Indiana expands immigrant detention centers. The last of four convicted ComEd co-conspirators has been sentenced to prison. Chicago Public Schools cuts custodians in an effort to save money. Reset breaks down those stories and much more with Chicago Tribune political writer,
Dan Petrella, Chicago Sun-Times reporter, Mary Norkol, and anchor of WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” and host of “Chicago Tonight: Black Voices,” Brandis Friedman.
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