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Two-hour special will air on WBEZ and Illinois Public Radio stations across the state Aug. 28, featuring songs and sounds requested by people serving time plus resources for prison families
On Being to end weekly radio program and become a seasonal podcast; WBEZ will fill the timeslot with Hidden Brain with Shankar Vedantam, Sundays at 7 a.m.
Motive podcast from WBEZ Chicago returns with stories and scandals from prisons in rural America
Local & national foundations and individual donors support Chicago Public Media’s plans with $61 million to invest in local journalism
Chicago Public Media and Chicago Sun-Times reach milestone in plans to join together as one local nonprofit news organization
NPR’s Here and Now to air Mondays-Thursdays starting at 1 p.m.; Fresh Air moves out of middays on WBEZ, available weekday evenings and on new WBEZ mobile app.
Experienced media leader returns to Midwest roots, joining Chicago Public Media from ProPublica.
Dance party pop-up show brings R&B and Soul classics to WBEZ this holiday season
