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Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has experienced amazing growth. In this hour, we explore the lasting effects on the students and teachers who are a part of it. How has this spoken word program changed their trajectories?

With the birth of the iPod and the use of other mobile devices such as cell phones, people can now literally take the intimacy of music with them. In a world that can feel both connected and impersonal, transportable music is a way to connect to something that feels real to one’s life.

It's 2013. Why are so many women still afraid to call themselves feminists?

The city council changes the name of Chicago's longest street and stirs up trouble.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. However, other times things just suck. This week, Arrested Development sucked.

Rachel Perveiler said La Biblioteca Del Personas promotes literacy and teaches responsibility.

One thing I can't get over is a particular way some Chicagoans have expressed their displeasure with Shteir: by attacking her looks.