Chicago Amplified

Chicago Amplified was created in 2006 to bring wider distribution to some of the most exciting and informative public programming happening throughout the Chicago region. These events serve the purpose of inspiring public discourse about a vast array of topics, from recent scientific discoveries to cultural connections. Click here for more information.  In addition to this full event archive, WBEZ now features an excerpt from the archive each week - a single story or revelation you just have to hear! Click here to check out Dynamic Range...

Sprawl in Chicagoland: Can We Stop It? Should We?

When new subdivisions and shopping centers shoot up on what once was open farmland, is that evidence of economic boom or suburban sprawl? Great news for the car industry, or terrible news for the environment? Listen in as architectural historian, author, and educator Robert Bruegmann explores these questions and argues that there is opportunity in subdivisions and in spread-out development.

A Reading and Conversation with Nathaniel Tarn

Poet, editor, anthropologist, translator, and critic Nathaniel Tarn was born in Paris and studied English at Cambridge before pursuing anthropology at the Collége de France and the Musée de l’Homme and fieldwork in Guatemala and Burma.

An Evening of German and Swiss Poetry and Music

Listen in as Goethe-Institut Chicago and Poetry Foundation for an evening of music and poetry performed by Tzveta Sofronieva, Sam Burckhardt, and Chantal Wright.

CERN: What’s it all about?

Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab and professor of physics at the University of Chicago, discusses the importance of the Higgs boson, a never-before-seen subatomic particle, what its discovery would mean for physics and society, and recent advances in Higgs boson research and high-energy particle experimentation in Europe and the United States.

"Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art" Curator-led Tour

Listen in as Stephanie Smith, the curator of Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, leads a tour of this exhibition examining the history of the artist-orchestrated meal, assessing its roots in early-twentieth century European avant-garde art, its development over the past decades within Western art, and its current global ubiquity. 

Remarks by Marilyn Wilkinson of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board

Marilyn Wilkinson of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board introduces their donation of Wisconsin cheese paired with Illinois wines to the Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance's fifth annual symposium, "Road Food: Exploring the Midwest One Bite at a Time." 

Summer Vacations in Northern Wisconsin

Board games, bonfires, citronellas, and pot lucks... For Kelly Sears, summer vacation is the big dining table that can seat sixteen and teaches us all that sometimes the people that sit around your table make what’s on your table seem that much better. 

Culinary Tourism in the Land of Meat and Potatoes and Green Bean Casserole

The culinary tourism industry focuses on distinct, memorable, and fine-dining food destinations. While such destinations exist in the American Midwest, the overall image of this region does not evoke these types of experiences. The Midwest, however, offers a wealth of rich foodways experiences, argues Lucy M. Long, founder and executive director of the Center for Food and Culture in Bowling Green, Ohio.

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