WBEZ Listeners Talk Thanksgiving And Politics

WBEZ Listeners Talk Thanksgiving And Politics

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Morning Shift host Tony Sarabia spoke with listeners earlier this week about their strategies for surviving this post-election Thanksgiving with relatives whose political views may not align with their own. We got some great calls from around the city and suburbs, so we decided to check back in with some of those listeners to see how things unfolded. 

Among those listeners is Irving Park resident Fred, a conservative-leaning Chicago police officer who has a boatload of liberal family members.