WBEZ Chicago launches The Rundown podcast, a bite-sized news podcast with stories and conversations that shape the Windy City
The Rundown Host Erin Allen calls new podcast “where curiosity meets FOMO”
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WBEZ Chicago to host special advance screening of HBO Max’s South Side Season 3 at the DuSable Museum on Dec. 6
Free community event to feature new season’s premiere episode, plus conversation with WBEZ’s Sasha-Ann Simons and South Side co-creators and stars Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle
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WBEZ AND Chicago Sun-Times partner with WTTW to present U.S. Senate Candidate Forum
Live broadcast to air Thursday, October 27 at 7 p.m. CST
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WBEZ Chicago’s Making podcast returns with new stories about Black icons, how they were made, and the people who were there
Season starts October 13 with tennis legend Serena Williams’ origin story
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WBEZ weekend special, Prisoncast, offers shared listening experience for incarcerated people and their family and friends
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
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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.
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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
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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
