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• On Being to air for last time on WBEZ on June 26

  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.

  June 24 read more
• Small towns. Big walls. A good place to hide things.

  Motive podcast from WBEZ Chicago returns with stories and scandals from prisons in rural America

  Mar. 16 read more
• WBEZ and Illinois Latino News Announce New Community Engagement Partnership in Chicago

  Feb. 2 read more
• Chicago Public Media Announces Its Acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times

  Local & national foundations and individual donors support Chicago Public Media’s plans with $61 million to invest in local journalism

  Jan. 31 read more
• Chicago Public Media Board of Directors Votes to Move Forward with Chicago Sun-Times’ Acquisition

  Chicago Public Media and Chicago Sun-Times reach milestone in plans to join together as one local nonprofit news organization

  Jan. 18 read more
• Program schedule update: WBEZ Chicago adds more news to weekday afternoons

  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.

  Jan. 18 read more
• Chicago Public Media names Celeste LeCompte as its Chief Audience Officer

  Experienced media leader returns to Midwest roots, joining Chicago Public Media from ProPublica.

  Dec. 21, 2021 read more
• “Soul Sauce” with Vocalo’s Ayana Contreras comes to WBEZ weekends this December

  Dance party pop-up show brings R&B and Soul classics to WBEZ this holiday season

  Dec. 1, 2021 read more
• WBEZ launches revamped mobile app with all-new features for enhanced digital listening experience

  Nov. 22, 2021 read more
• Chicago Public Media and Chicago Sun-Times Announce Plans to Explore a Combination as a Local Nonprofit News Organization in Chicago

  Partnership would create one of the largest local nonprofit news organizations in the nation and emerge as a national model for the future of local journalism

  Sept. 29, 2021 read more