WBEZ’s Illinois and Chicago News Roundup: Aug. 23, 2019
Morning Shift breaks down the biggest local stories of the week on WBEZ’s Friday News Roundup with Jenn White.
Morning Shift breaks down the biggest local stories of the week on WBEZ’s Friday News Roundup with Jenn White.
This Douglas Park building is a remnant from when Chicago was the American capital of a fitness movement known as “Turner clubs.“
The head of the Chicago Housing Authority, Eugene Jones Jr., unexpectedly resigned late Tuesday after four-and-a-half years on the job. The CHA—one of the largest public housing authorities in the …
A report released by the former state inspector general yesterday reveals a culture of sexual harassment and other offenses in the office of Illinois house speaker Michael Madigan.
The nation’s largest reproductive health care provider will refuse Title X funds due to a new federal rule restricting abortion referrals.
Planned Parenthood will refuse Title X funds due to a new federal rule restricting abortion referrals.
We discuss the “trends” or meetups organized on social media that lead to large gatherings of teens in downtown Chicago.
I Grow Chicago’s growing community resource hub is located on the 6400 block of South Honore Street.
A master storyteller talks about overcoming a speech impediment, and seeing his own story in the 2010 film “The King’s Speech.“
Morning Shift talks to members of three Chicago-area organizations that were awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.