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WBEZ News
The latest news and featured stories from WBEZ Chicago.
How to make it through winter with Hygge
4 mins; January 02, 2025
Mr. Duncan's disciples: Bronzeville high school choir alums embrace lessons, memories of beloved teacher
7 mins; December 30, 2024
When a taste of home is the best gift at Christmas
4 mins; December 24, 2024
City of Chicago to hit 100% renewable energy goal on January 1
4 mins; December 24, 2024
13 of the very best Chicago albums of 2024
4 mins; December 24, 2024
This year's indie nonfiction book of the year was Hospital, Heal Thyself
4 mins; December 23, 2024
Former AT&T Illinois executive accused of bribing Mike Madigan gets new trial date
4 mins; December 23, 2024
Holidays gone awry: Stories from three Chicago comedians
5 mins; December 23, 2024
How one Chicago high school is helping feed the members of its community
4 mins; December 23, 2024
Chicago school board fires its CEO, setting up legal dispute
4 mins; December 23, 2024
Opioids have been killing the same generation of Black men in Chicago for decades
6 mins; December 20, 2024
Chicago’s indie music venues have a Taylor Swift problem
4 mins; December 20, 2024
The Kewanee Life Skills Re-entry Center is different from most prisons in Illinois
4 mins; December 20, 2024
Unlocking the holidays in Chicago one tropical cocktail at a time
5 mins; December 20, 2024
A Chicago circus offers a flamboyant holiday night out.
4 mins; December 19, 2024
This Northwestern music detective resurrected a trove of 400-year-old Christmas music
4 mins; December 19, 2024
The 18 best reads of 2024, handpicked by our staff
6 mins; December 17, 2024
Chicago’s city council narrowly approves a new city budget that avoids a property tax hike
4 mins; December 17, 2024
FBI recordings in the Michael Madigan trial are outlining an alleged Chinatown corruption scheme
6 mins; December 16, 2024
Prosecution prepares to wrap up their case on the federal corruption trial of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan
4 mins; December 13, 2024
Chicago’s oldest Latino theater is one of a few groups performing shows in Spanish.
4 mins; December 13, 2024
What to know about an effort to make college in Illinois more affordable
4 mins; December 12, 2024
Local documentaries are winning awards and sweeping film festivals, but will anyone see them?
3 mins; December 12, 2024
December brings a dizzying number of classic holiday things to do around Chicago.
3 mins; December 10, 2024
Chicago closes its largest tent city and moves most residents into apartments and shelters
4 mins; December 09, 2024
More Muslim girls are playing youth sports and celebrating their religion while doing it
3 mins; December 09, 2024
Chicago and Illinois have sanctuary laws to protect undocumented migrants
3 mins; December 06, 2024
This Chicago one-woman show makes a ‘mixtape’ with the audience
4 mins; December 05, 2024
D-Composed wants audience members to “come as you are.”
4 mins; December 04, 2024
Chicago is closing its biggest tent city but comes up short on promised apartments
6 mins; December 04, 2024
Bears head coach Matt Eberflus fired
4 mins; December 03, 2024
A new exhibit in Springfield is dedicated to the late Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt
3 mins; December 03, 2024
Kink, drag, circus and song: 10 holiday nights out for adults sure to bring yuletide cheer
3 mins; November 26, 2024
Kink, drag, circus and song: 10 holiday nights out for adults sure to bring yuletide cheer
3 mins; November 26, 2024
A culinary queen talks food and feels at Friendsgiving
4 mins; November 26, 2024
The federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan took a dramatic turn this week.
4 mins; November 25, 2024
Debate over hydrogen as a clean energy source hits the Midwest
4 mins; November 25, 2024
The south suburbs experienced a record tax increase this year.
6 mins; November 25, 2024
Grammy-winning Chicagoan Frank Catalano marries jazz and blues on a new album
6 mins; November 21, 2024
CPS board presses Acero officials for plan to keep charter schools open
4 mins; November 20, 2024
Kim Foxx says she permanently changed the prosecutor’s office
6 mins; November 20, 2024
Jeremy Allen White lookalike contest draws more than 50, won by Glenview therapist
3 mins; November 19, 2024
Chicago singer m.e.h. on how to cultivate a fearless personal style
4 mins; November 19, 2024
Chicago’s environmental justice advocates worry Trump could upend progress
3 mins; November 14, 2024
What’s it like to ride the rails from Chicago to Miami?
4 mins; November 14, 2024
Chicago saxophonist Isaiah Collier on an apocalyptic new album
4 mins; November 14, 2024
Pitchfork’s abrupt exit from Chicago seen as a ‘loss’ for music community
4 mins; November 13, 2024
What could a second Trump term mean for housing in Chicago and Illinois?
4 mins; November 12, 2024
Actor Jon Michael Hill on playing the mythological bluesman Robert Johnson
4 mins; November 12, 2024
In last week’s general election, president-elect Donald Trump won more votes from Latinos than he did in 2020
4 mins; November 11, 2024
Federal prosecutors continue to present their corruption case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain
3 mins; November 11, 2024
What to expect from Chicago's new school board
4 mins; November 11, 2024
He spent three decades in Illinois prisons. This week he voted for the first time.
3 mins; November 11, 2024
Chicago’s immigrant rights community building 'deportation defense infrastructure'
4 mins; November 08, 2024
After four wrongful decades in prison, Stanley Howard votes for the first time
3 mins; November 08, 2024
Soprano Karen Slack is bringing her bold vision for opera to Chicago’s Lyric
5 mins; November 07, 2024
Walks along the lakefront remind this professor from Gaza of home.
7 mins; November 07, 2024
Chicagoans voted for the first-ever Chicago Public School Elected School Board
5 mins; November 06, 2024
A new opera tells the story of the grisly 1924 Chicago murder case of Leopold and Loeb
4 mins; November 05, 2024
What do public housing residents want in the next leader of the Chicago Housing Authority?
3 mins; November 04, 2024
How a ‘big fan’ of Trump gets along with his immigrant neighbors in this diverse suburban strip mall
3 mins; November 04, 2024
State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is in the final months as Cook County’s top prosecutor
6 mins; November 01, 2024
Many asylum seekers in desperate need of legal help to meet imminent deadlines
4 mins; November 01, 2024
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is backtracking on a campaign pledge.
3 mins; October 31, 2024
Liberal director Steve Pink made a movie about conservative Adam Kinzinger. What was he thinking?
6 mins; October 31, 2024
Belmont-Cragin celebrates Halloween
4 mins; October 31, 2024
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is backtracking on a campaign pledge.
3 mins; October 31, 2024
Illinois’ 17th Congressional seat gets competitive in matchup between incumbent Eric Sorensen and Joe McGraw
3 mins; October 30, 2024
‘I got you’: Illinois educators help undocumented students find path to college
4 mins; October 30, 2024
Chicago psychedelic soul singer Manasseh dishes on his distinct personal style
4 mins; October 29, 2024
It’s no secret that the Democratic party holds a great deal of political power in Illinois.
3 mins; October 28, 2024
Lyric Opera’s new leader John Mangum on taking Chicago's company into the future
4 mins; October 28, 2024
Jurors begin to hear wiretaps of how ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan used his power
4 mins; October 28, 2024
Big pharma is throwing a lot of cash at IL congressional members
3 mins; October 25, 2024
Coronation, a new play in Chicago, imagines a United States with a female queen.
3 mins; October 24, 2024
How does seemingly popular legislation die at the Illinois capitol? Many ways -- here's one of them.
4 mins; October 24, 2024
Chicago’s rental crisis: Is an algorithm rigging the system?
6 mins; October 22, 2024
Meet the Chicago weaver making art that goes to the grave with you
3 mins; October 22, 2024
Non-standard auto insurers have higher rates of complaints than bigger name insurers
4 mins; October 22, 2024
Leaks confirmed at first in the nation carbon sequestration facility
4 mins; October 21, 2024
A day with Chicago area Democrats getting out the vote in swing state Wisconsin
4 mins; October 21, 2024
A look at the first freshman class since the race-conscious admissions ban
4 mins; October 17, 2024
A hidden Chicago concert hall is becoming classical music’s most desirable venue
3 mins; October 17, 2024
Trump comes to Chicago to insist tariff is ‘world’s most beautiful word’ — and Jan. 6 was ‘love and peace’
4 mins; October 16, 2024
Chicago’s plan to clear away its biggest tent city troubles a homeless former gang leader
6 mins; October 16, 2024
The case for talking frankly about pregnancy loss, miscarriage and stillbirth
6 mins; October 15, 2024
The first state championship in girls flag football is underway.
4 mins; October 15, 2024
University of Chicago professor, two M.I.T. economists win the Nobel Prize in Economics
3 mins; October 14, 2024
Illinois officials battle misinformation to protect integrity of November election
3 mins; October 14, 2024
Chicago universities crack down on free speech
4 mins; October 11, 2024
Anti-gentrification ordinance now in effect for Northwest Side neighborhoods
3 mins; October 11, 2024
Broadway in Chicago CEO Lou Raizin on theater’s COVID comeback
4 mins; October 10, 2024
Chicago’s Schools CEO says thinks CPS need more money, not less
3 mins; October 10, 2024
Lurie Children's pediatric psychologist Doctor Lauren Pothoff advises Ukrainian charity workers and therapists
4 mins; October 09, 2024
In the wake of Sonya Massey’s death, Springfield will test a new model for handling mental health calls
4 mins; October 09, 2024
What will Mike Madigan’s federal corruption trial entail? Hear from the experts.
7 mins; October 09, 2024
An international chess tournament got underway this morning in the Cook County jail
2 mins; October 09, 2024
Illinois has the capacity to meet just 24% of the mental health needs of the state
4 mins; October 09, 2024
Mayor Brandon Johnson names all new CPS school board after mass resignations
3 mins; October 09, 2024
Migrant organizers work to calm chaos at a South Side Home Depot
6 mins; October 07, 2024
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