WBEZ Archives: Rahm Emanuel On His First Run For Public Office
Rahm Emanuel joins ‘Eight-Forty-Eight ’ to talk about why he decided to leave his post as a top adviser in the White House to become a potential freshman in Chicago’s political machine.

Rahm Emanuel joins ‘Eight-Forty-Eight ’ to talk about why he decided to leave his post as a top adviser in the White House to become a potential freshman in Chicago’s political machine.
Composer Philip Glass talks to Eight-Forty-Eight contributor Victoria Lautman about the creation and music in his film project ‘Monsters of Grace.‘
On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mavis Staples reflects on Dr. King’s impact on The Staple Singers.
Historian Barbara Ransby talks with bell hooks, author of ‘Remembered Rapture: The Writer At Work,’ about literature by African-American and women authors. Also, hooks reads an excerpt from the book.
Then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama Panel joins an ‘Eight-Forty-Eight ’ panel discussion on capital punishment in the state.
The July 4th holiday is a challenge for technology that helps police tell gunshots from fireworks. We recorded the sound of both here.
This story includes audio designed to be listened to with headphones. The sounds are recordings of actual gunfire and fireworks.
This story includes audio designed to be listened to with headphones. The sounds are recordings of actual gunfire and fireworks.
The community-wide debate—and contentious lawsuit—set off in 2015. Follow the fight with this timeline.
A handful of CHA properties to show us how some have — or have not — been developed since the Plan for Transformation was announced.