The 11th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival features over 150 local, national, and international jazz musicians performing two full days of FREE non-stop jazz music in the historic center of Chicago's jazz community - Hyde Park.

Billed as “the smartest event of the year,” by Crain’s Chicago Business, the annual Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner is beloved by bibliophiles everywhere.

Join over 2,000 community members, nonprofit professionals, activists, civic and business leaders for Chicago Foundation for Women's 32nd  Annual Luncheon and Symposium.

Join Chicago Ideas and WBEZ for a screening of Against All Odds: A Fight for a Black Middle Class. In this film, acclaimed journalist Bob Herbert explores the often heroic efforts of black families to pursue the American dream in the face of unrelenting barriers.

Ivo H. Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Dina Smeltz, Senior Fellow, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Attention news junkies! WBEZ’s Podcast Passport is excited to bring The NPR Politics Podcast to Chicago!

For two weeks this November, Third Coast International Audio Festival brings two weeks of your favorite podcasts to Chicago, for brand new—and newly reimagined—works of audio storytelling, live on-stage in venues across Chicago.

While covering a political protest in Berkeley, California, on August 27, 2017, Reveal Host Al Letson found himself lying on top of a far right provocateur, shielding him from a violent beating by Antifa.