Pritzker Wants To Sell Thompson Center, Preservationists Want To Save It
Landmarks Illinois supports the sale but wants Gov. Pritzker to include a requirement of retention and reuse so it won’t be demolished.
Landmarks Illinois supports the sale but wants Gov. Pritzker to include a requirement of retention and reuse so it won’t be demolished.
Leslé Honoré talks about the impact the 1939 film “Gone With The Wind” had on her, from how she viewed black representation in film to women’s agency.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson answered WBEZ listener questions on Tuesday.
With days until CPS’ first day of school and a month until a possible teacher’s strike, CPS CEO Janice Jackson stops by the Morning Shift.
After homeless advocates accused the mayor of “business-as-usual politics,” some stakeholders are also expressing cautious concern.
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 country—will now be without three of its leading positions. In addition to Jones resigning as CEO, board chair John Hooker resigned last month and former chief of staff Jose Alvarez resigned earlier this year. The loss in leadership echoes back to the days before Jones took over as CEO: between 1999 and 2014, CHA had a whopping eight CEOs, the kind of changeover that led to inconsistency and instability in the authority. In an emailed statement, Mayor Lightfoot said the search for his replacement will begin immediately. Morning Shift checks in with WBEZ reporter Natalie Moore and J.R. Fleming, an anti-eviction activist and executive director of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign.
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.