WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: May 5, 2023

The jury in the ComEd bribery trial delivers guilty verdicts. Plus, more migrants arrive in Chicago on buses from Texas.

By Andrea Guthmann
The ComEd Four
The ComEd Four (left to right): Former ComEd lobbyist John Hooker; former City Club President Jay Doherty; former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore; Michael McClain, longtime confidant to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Pat Nabong, Ashlee Rezin, Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Chicago Sun-Times
The ComEd Four
The ComEd Four (left to right): Former ComEd lobbyist John Hooker; former City Club President Jay Doherty; former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore; Michael McClain, longtime confidant to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Pat Nabong, Ashlee Rezin, Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Chicago Sun-Times

WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: May 5, 2023

The jury in the ComEd bribery trial delivers guilty verdicts. Plus, more migrants arrive in Chicago on buses from Texas.

By Andrea Guthmann
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Police stations, park district buildings and closed schools are being used to house migrants as more arrive on buses from Texas. Meanwhile, Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson chooses an interim police superintendent.

Reset goes behind the headlines of those stories and more on the Weekly News Recap.


GUESTS: Mike Lowe, reporter for WGN-TV

David Greising, president of the Better Government Association

Ray Long, Chicago Tribune investigative reporter and author of The House That Madigan Built: The Record Run of Illinois’ Velvet Hammer