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Music fans swarm Grant Park during the annual summer festival, Lollapalooza.

Jan. 05, 2011

As the city of Chicago overhauls management of some of the city’s biggest festivals, "Eight Forty-Eight" asks listeners what they want from their festival experience and how much they’d be willing to pay. Jim DeRogatis of WBEZ’s Vocalo blogs and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Tom Held join Alison Cuddy for the conversation.

The cost of caring for Illinois' aging prison population

Jan. 5, 2011
Illinois’ prisons are strapped for cash and caring for the growing number of elderly prisoners is part of the problem. Inmates over 50 are a fairly small slice of the overall prison population.

A Daley may be next White House chief of staff

Jan. 5, 2011
The youngest of Mayor Richard J. Daley’s children is by no means the runt of the pack. As special counsel to former President Bill Clinton, Bill Daley famously led the charge to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The potential privatization of Chicago's festivals

Jan. 5, 2011
Love it or hate it, the Taste of Chicago is probably one of the city’s best known summer festivals. So why would the mayor want to sell the rights to operate it?

Wacker Drive: History revealed

Jan. 5, 2011
Phase one of the multi-year project to repair Chicago’s Wacker Drive is finished. It's part of the Revive Wacker Drive project. But new construction underway this week is still giving plenty of drivers headaches.