WBEZ’s Chicago and Illinois News Roundup: April 20, 2018
This week: Chicago area could see more toll roads, double-parking fines triple in downtown, 2019 Mayor’s race gets more interesting.
This week: Chicago area could see more toll roads, double-parking fines triple in downtown, 2019 Mayor’s race gets more interesting.
It may not seem like it, but spring has actually been here for a month! What does all this cold weather mean for the growing season?
Two Chicago women were chosen to be among the Obama Foundation’s first fellowship class.
A new Gallup poll has reported that church attendance has been in decline.
A billionaire’s donation to boosting Chicago’s crime fighting technology and synthetic pot is increasing hospitalizations in the state.
Thirty-five years ago, Chicago history was made when voters elected the city’s first black mayor.
An Illinois House Bill could lessen the trauma kids experience after custody battles — or exacerbate it, depending on your point of view.
We talk with Cubs chairman and owner Tom Ricketts about the 2018 Cubs and whether they have the stuff to win another World Series.
Fifty years later, Chicago’s West Side is still recovering from riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
A historian says King would be ‘proud’ of contemporary activists and discusses the parallels between the late 1960s and today.