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Eight Forty-Eight Podcast |
We look at aspects of Chicago life and assess Mayor Richard M. Daley’s impact on politics, culture, crime, education and much more. Our guests include Rick Kogan, Maria De Los Angeles Torres, Mick Dumke, among [...]
Christopher Mazzeo of the Consortium on Chicago School Research joins for an overview of how Chicago's alternative schools work. We learn more about Chicago's all-girls Charter school, Young Women's Leadership [...]
Christy LeMaster joins us to talk about the documentary on Pat Tillman. LeMaster also reviews the 1975 classic rock opera film Tommy. The Dueling Critics review Frost/Nixon at TimeLine [...]
WBEZ’s Richard Steele offers us a preview of the Chicago Jazz Festival, and sits down with jazz great Kurt Elling. And, we find out what it's like to try to make a living as a jazz musician in [...]
We look at the economic viability and struggles of creating and maintaining arts districts in Chicago. Food critic David Hammond takes us to the head-to-tail dining experience that is Mado, in the next installment of our Soundbites [...] |
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