WBEZ's The Morning Drive
By Chicago Public Media
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Podcast Description
Morning news from WBEZ to listen to on the way to work.
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Wednesday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: (Some) details on Quinn's proposed Medicaid cuts; the new state of labor relations in the Midwest; remember the cold?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Tuesday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Chicago speed cameras; Sen. Mark Kirk's recovery; snow.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Monday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Super Bowl! Used car lots! The return of cold weather!It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Friday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: What it takes to challenge a powerful Illinois pol; preventing wrongful convictions in Cook County; Super Bowl!It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Thursday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Criticism of Quinn's State of the State; Soul Train's founder, remembered by someone who knew him; Ulysses.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Wednesday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Illinois' State of the State; NATO/G-8; and race.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Tuesday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Bears; what's up next for the spring legislative session; unseasonable, unconscionable warmth.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Monday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Why Illinois' finances are worse than you thought; capitalist borrowing; Whiskey River.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Friday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Superbowl prep for Indianapolis; Ill. Supreme Court and gay marriage.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Thursday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Right-to-work wins in Indiana; new health guidelines for Chicago school kids; what it takes to host an NFL Super Bowl.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Wednesday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Kirk's health; arrests on CPS grounds; what it's really like to be a teacher in the Midwest.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Tuesday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Sen. Mark Kirk's prognosis; Chicago police focus on two troublesome districts; State of the Union.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Friday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Chicago's new political map; piano jazz on Piano Jazz; snow and bluegrass.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Thursday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Chicagoland's music club wars; more snow on the way; a possible ward remap resolution?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Thursday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Ward remap resolution; why your gut is smarter than you think; cold, cold cold.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Tuesday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: D-Day for Mayor Emanuel's NATO/G-8 ordinances; looking back at the Mirage Tavern; bitter cold, fluffy snow.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: Friday the 13th | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Cold comes hard on the heels of snow; a new book about America's First Couple; Good luck...It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast for Thursday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: President Obama's cash-cow visit to Chicago; Midwestern manufacturing in 2012; all the deets on the season's first snowstorm.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast for Wednesday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Quinn's pension reform push; the changing face of manufacturing; getting ready for 2012's first snow storm.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast for Tuesday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Why parents at one South Side school say their kids are being pushed out; talking with the long-time leader of ComEd.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean01-09-12: Chicago's public libraries; Japan's teaching strategies | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Chicago's public libraries; Japan's teaching strategies.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean01-06-12: conflicts of interest and Ind. Statehouse shenanigans | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: conflicts of interest in Illinois politics and the continued Ind. Statehouse shenanigans.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCPS payouts, Indy right-to-work fight | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Chicago Public Schools' watchdog says nearly 200 retired teachers wrongly received more than $1 million in benefits; Deja vu in Indiana's right-to-work fight.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean01-04-12: Indiana's "right to work," changes for Da Bears | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Indiana's "right to work" battle, big changes for Da Bears.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFarm subsidies, Canadian guns, cold | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The upcoming debate on farm subsidies in Washington; what it takes to get a gun in Canada; seasonably cold weather.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanE-Lotto, un-reversing the Chicago River | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Why selling Illinois lotto tickets online could hurt convenience stores; what's behind one idea to re-reverse the Chicago River.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast for Wednesday | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Reaction to Sears' plans to close more than 100 stores; the battle to merge two Illinois state offices; warm, warm warmth.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanD-Rose, posadas, snow! | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: D-Rose sticks around; posadas around Chicago; snow!It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPolice cameras, philanthropic stimulus, Santa | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: What happens when Chicago police move in, but security cameras turn away; philanthropy and jump-starting the economy; I Am Santa Claus.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBlagojevich, suburban architecture, latkes | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Blagojevich's "harebrained" lawyers? Good architecture in the 'burbs? The secret to good latkes?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBears, newsstands, Christmas trees | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Bears' breakdown; the business of running a newstand in an iPad era; the cutthroat world of Chicago Christmas tree lots.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBad news Bears, art and disability | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Off-field Bears trouble; art and disability; snow?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSchool board mayhem, Deep Tunnel, Glenn Miller | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Mayhem at Chicago's school board; Deep Tunnel deal; Glenn Miller.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSugar, tax breaks, first memories | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The business of keeping businesses in Illinois; exploring our first memories; rain.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTuesday: Taxis, immigrants, Bernanke | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Why the City of Chicago is cracking down on the taxi industry; talking with the one-man office charged with making Chicago ultra-immigrant-friendly; Bernanke gets cray-cray.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTax breaks, college biz, warmth | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Tax breaks head back to Springfield; Chicago college kids play business, for real; Warm, warm warmth.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBlagojevich appeal, Chicago's new Greek museum | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Blagojevich attorneys talk appeal; a dark corner of Lithuanian history; Chicago's new Greek Museum!It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAdios Blagojevich, bye-bye Buehrle | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.On today's podcast: It's bye-bye Blago and bye-bye Buehrle... the White Sox pitcher joins Ozzie Guillen in Miami. It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBlagojevich sentencing, iron ore | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: What to expect at Rod Blagojevich's sentencing today; what's next for Midwestern iron ore.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSentencing, USPS cuts, snow | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: What to expect at Rod Blagojevich's sentencing; the trouble with closing Chicago post offices; snow!It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCorruption, Occupy, bad news Bears | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Recalling corrupt governors of yore; why Occupy Chicago has been relatively peaceful; bad news Bears.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSchool closures, education lobbying and beer | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.On today's podcast: Fallout over CPS' plan to close some schools; an education lobbying group sets up shop in Illinois; Christmas, German-style.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBlagojevich jail time, closing schools | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Rod Blagojevich as a tragic figure? What's next for soon-to-be-phased-out schools? Undocumented immigrants as an economic engine?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTax breaks, Flint, Mamet | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Showdown over tax breaks for Illinois businesses; What's next for Flint, Michigan; David Mamet, 64.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFlippers, turnarounds and New Kids On the Block | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The other side of home flipping; CPS turnarounds; Happy Birthday, Mr. Mayor.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean11-28-11: Maggie Daley; Cyber-Monday; Gang Summits | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: remembering Maggie Daley, double-clicking for Cyber-Monday, new ways to reduce gang violence.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean11-23-11: Re-map, Rezko, Empty Buildings | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: A hold on candidates until the congressional re-map, Rezko's sentence and what it all means, and the problem with empty buildings.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRezko, 21st century politicking, Go-Go's | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Sentencing today for a top Blagojevich fundraiser; what pols know about you before they even knock on your door; Vacation!It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSupercommittee fail, perspective, Bears | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Congressional supercommittee FAIL; perspective; Jay Cutler out - for how long?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean11-18-11: Wisconsin mines, re-map redux, booze tax? | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Wisconsin resource wars; Congressional re-map woes; will Cook County get new taxes on alcohol?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChicago's budget, bear hunting, Ted Nugent | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: What's next for Chicago's finances; voting in other languages; the economics of black bear hunting.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCity budget, empty stockyards and cold weather | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Mayor Rahm Emanuel's budget, primed for passage today; what to do with Chicago empty stockyards; Cold, cold coldness.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCTA budget, foodie tourism, Iron Chef | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The CTA could get its new budget today - and what that means for riders; burgeoning foodie tourism in the Midwest; No more NBA?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean11-14-11: Chicago sports rule; is Michigan "Pure"? | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: a wrap-up of Chicago's super sports Sunday; Michigan's tourist campaign; and Cellini won't get out of the news.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean11-11-11: Veto progress? Ads on garbage trucks? Spinal Tap Day? | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: A wrap-up of the Illinois veto session; Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to sell ads on city property; This Is Spinal Tap Day.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean11-11-10: Parking fees, Gospel Fest, Edmund Fitzgerald | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The suburban and cultural effects of Rahm Emanuel's budget; remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean11-9-11: Empty lots, nuclear scientists and ... snow? | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: What to do with that empty lot next door; the secret lives of nuclear scientists; Snow. Snow? Snow!It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean11-8-11: Speed cameras, water fees, Smokin' Joe sings | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The latest on Chicago's plan to catch speeders with cameras; evaluating Mayor Emanuel's water fee increase; remembering Smokin' - and Singin' - Joe Frazier.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean11-7-11: Libraries, housing and Nixon | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The effects of Emanuel's proposed library cuts; a housing non-profit, post-housing crash; Nixon's last words.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDaley deposed? NWI trauma care? Bulls video game? | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Efforts to depose Richard Daley regarding police torture on his watch; a startling lack of trauma care in Northwest Indiana; Play a Bulls video game instead?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCPS report cards, EMTs for Orthodox Jews | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: What the new CPS report cards don't tell you; new EMTs for Chicago's Orthodox Jews; R.I.P., Laika.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCemetery rowdiness, city budget revolt | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Chicago aldermen outline some concerns about the mayor's budget; gang problems at a Southwest Side cemetery; vacancy problems in the Midwest.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanLayoffs, pornography and sleeping alone | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The first round of Cook County layoffs; sleep and lonliness; a history of the anti-porn movement.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-31-11: Scary Veto Session, Spooky Test Scores, Ghoulish Month in Review | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: a contentious start to Springfield's veto session, state test scores are in, and an upcoming month in review of October's news.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChicago's pot debate, St. Louis' mighty Cardinals | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Decriminalizing pot in Chicago; a jury acquits police for shooting a mentally ill man; Cardinals!It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-27-11: Veto session, mentally ill adults | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The latest from Springfield's veto session; what happens when Illinois' mentally ill kids grow up.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-26-11: Gambling showdown, hatching businesses | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Gambling expansion's a-headed for a showdown in Springfield; why business incubators rarely hatch viable businesses; Chill.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-25-11: Garbage, politics and mental illness | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Garbage and political clout in Chicago; a Chicago family gives up custody of their son to get him treatment for his mental illness.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-24-11: Occupy Chicago arrests, the state of the economy | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Occupy Chicago arrests, the state of the economy according to Bethany McLean, why nurses want to march on City Hall.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-24-11: Occupy Chicago arrests, the state of the economy | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Venture takes a look at how we view the economy, more arrests at Occupy Chicago and why nurses will protest outside the mayor's office.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-21-11: Longer school days, small businesses | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Small businesses, longer school days, Out of the Shadows.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-20-11: CTA budget, educating mentally ill kids | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode:CTA budget; educating mentally ill kids; wind. And more wind.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-19-11: Budgets, batteries and robots | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Debate begins over Chicago's next budget; Can advanced batteries power the Midwest?; Reimagining the robot.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-18-11: Gaming wrangling, bi-polar disorder, 'magic bullets' | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Lawmakers react to the governor's rejection of their gambling expansion bill; why more kids are being diagnosed as bi-polar; 'magic bullets' for the economy.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-17-11: Diet decisions, mental illness in Illinois | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: What your diet decisions say about how you spend money; a new series about mentally ill children in Illinois; Bears!It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Morning Drive Podcast: 10-14-11: Metra fares, Defamation, Norman Conquest! | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Metra fares may not increase, afterall; a play where you're the audience - and the jury; remembering 1066; looking forward to the Bears.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-13-11: Emanuel's budget, Chicago's trauma centers | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The "slow slog" of Chicago's housing market recovery; the nitty gritty of Emanuel's budget plan; Does a longer ambulance ride to the ER affect your chances of survival?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-12-11: Chicago budget, Chicago trauma, Chicago soccer | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: A preview of Mayor Emanuel's budget address today; the second story in our Chicago trauma series; Hello, rain.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-11-11: CTA budget, NBA lockout, Chicago ERs | In today's episode: CTA's labor problem (or Labor's CTA problem?); Evaluating trauma care in Chicago; Bad news Bears.The Chicago Transit Authority cut more than 200 jobs, the agency announced on Monday. The move comes as the CTA is preparing to release its 2012 budget. The CTA is also revising its sick and vacation policies, according to a released statement. The CTA said the cuts will save about $22 million annually.Suburban governments are turning to the Illinois General Assembly to force utility provider ComEd to provide better response to widespread power outages.President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he is prepared to break his jobs bill into pieces and try to move it that way, hours before the measure faced likely defeat at the hands of Republican senators opposed to stimulus spending and a tax surcharge on millionaires, the AP reports.Access to the highest level of emergency trauma care is not spread equally throughout Chicago, and some claim this layout leaves South Siders by the wayside. WBEZ begins its look at those claims in the first of a three-part series. It's National Cheese Month! Eight Forty-Eight explains.On this date in 1779, Casimir Pulaski, a general in the Continental Army, died from wounds suffered in the Battle of Savannah. In sports, the Bears fell three games behind in what has been widely called a meltdown in their game against the Detroit Lions 24-13.The weather could be the last nice day in a while: partly sunny with highs around 75, becoming partly cloudy with lows around 55.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-10-11: After School Matters sees paycuts, abandoned pets, the economy and Canadian Thanksgiving | Hosted by Alex Keefe and edited by Elliott RamosIn today's episode: How pets are faring during the economic downturn; more financial news about After School Matters; Bears.This week the DuPage County Board is expected to vote on new rules about where places of worship can locate. The changes would allow houses of worship into all zoning districts by right, unlike before. However, they would have to follow new requirements for larger lot sizes, access to major arterial roads, use of public water and sewer lines and they would be limited as to how much of the land could be covered by building. They also would no longer be allowed to purchase and use single-family homes as worship spaces.A new analysis shows that legislation to overhaull Illinois' electricity grid was one of the most heavily lobbied bills in recent memory. The Better Government Association said power companies Ameren and ComEd and opponents spent $1.3 million to lobby the bill, which was eventually vetoed by Gov. Pat Quinn.It’s early. The primary elections are almost six months away. There is a lot of time left for candidates to wave around their resumes in front of voters. There’s also lots of time for candidates to wave around their opponents’ garbage: corruption allegations, DUIs, sex scandals, you name it.WBEZ's Sam Hudzik asked a few candidates if they plan to go personal on some choice nugget in their opponents’ pasts. They each hedged, leaving the door at least a little bit open. Rosie O'Donnell is scheduled to make her debut on the Oprah Winfrey Network Monday. The New York native recently bought a house in Chicago and now she moves into a second new home: Oprah's Harpo studios in the West Loop.South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is coming to Chicago. Rahm is breaking out the dinnerware.After School Matters has been in the news quite a bit lately. The city of Chicago may have given preferential treatment to the non-profit founded by Mayor Richard Daley's wife, according to a new report from Chicago's inspector general Joseph Ferguson. The uncovering has prompted Mayor Emanuel to review a city program that funnels public money to non-profits.Chicago's premier after-school program offers needy high school students paid apprenticeships—20,000 of them this year alone. While the overall budget pie is the same this year, the slice of that pie going to teen stipends is a lot thinner. WBEZ's Linda Lutton reports.In the face of ongoing economic misery - for people and dogs alike - luxury items keep the pet-product industry growing. Meanwhile, real estate agents are finding abandoned pets in foreclosed homes.Bears are heading to Detroit today.In today's weather, it's mostly sunny with highs around 79 and lows reaching 59.Morning Drive is wishing everyone a happy Canadian Thanksgiving! To celebrate, we recommend the Poutine.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-7-11: Ventura, Lobbyist Lawyers, Sunshine | Hosted by Jennifer Brandel and edited by Elliott Ramos In today's episode: Robin Ventura back with the Sox; incredible weather continues; a political lawyer who's also a lobbyistThe mudslinging has begun in a fight between Democrats for Illinois' 2nd Congressional seat. Former Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson yesterday formally kicked off her campaign against current Congressman Jesse Jackson, Junior.West suburban-based Sara Lee is thinking of moving its headquarters.Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean Claude Brizard is opening the door to a longer school day in high schools as well as elementary schools. He spoke on a WBEZ special live call-in show last night.Also in today's podcast, Sam Hudzik examines the vague non-disclosure laws that allow all politics, lobbying and law to get real cozy.In sports, Blackhawks skate into their regular season in Dallas tonight and thousands of runners in tiny shorts will descend upon Chicago for the Sunday marathon.Today's going to be a sunny day, with highs around 80 and lows in the 50s.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-6-11: Obama re-election, Chicago's police watchdog | Hosted by Alex Keefe and edited by Elliott RamosIn today's episode: Taking Chicago's temp on Obama's re-election; technical difficulties, explained; Chicago's police watchdog making house calls?Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced a measure to the city council this week that will cut the head tax in half next year and do away with it by 2014.The Independent Police Review Authority, agency that takes complaints and investigates police misconduct in Chicago, is moving its headquarters from South Side to the North Side in an effort to save money.Add to the ooops category: A $90 million overstatement of tax revenues has prompted Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle to fire Comptroller Constance Kravitz.Opening statements are expected to resume Thursday in the public corruption trial of William Cellini.In his opening statement for the prosecution on Wednesday, Greg Deis told jurors that Cellini wasn't on the board of the Teachers Retirement System and yet he controlled how the agency invested some of its $30 billion in assets.Sears is considering leaving Illinois for Ohio or Texas. Sears is in talks with officials regarding the company's expiring tax incentives. Sears is one of several companies threatening to leave the state following an increase in the corporate and personal income tax this year.WBEZ’s Richard Steele went to Hyde Park with Salim Muwakkil and Kyra Kyles for a roundtable discussion with Valois’ lunchtime crowd. (-6:23 in the audio player)The weather is perfect today: Sunny with highs of 82 degrees and lows near 59.We here at City Room and WBEZ bid a fond farewell to Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. You will be missed.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-4-11: Expanding universe, advanced manufacturing | Hosted by Alex Keefe and edited by Elliott RamosThe Chicago City Council is set to confirm Illana Rosenzweig to a second four-year term as the head of Independent Police Review Authority.Champaign-Urbana, Ill.-born Saul Perlmutter shared a Nobel Prize with two others for their discovering that the universe is expanding at a faster rate. Perlmutter, 52, heads the Supernova Cosmology Project at the University of California, Berkeley. Chicago officials will test whether private companies or city workers can provide the best, most cost effective residential recycling.Jury selection is scheduled to resume Tuesday in federal court in the trial of William Cellini, after a slow start on Monday.Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said he wants to move forward with proposed layoffs and closing seven state facilities, despite an arbitrator's ruling that doing so would violate a contract with labor unions.U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger and fellow Republican Don Manzullo appear likely to face each other in a primary next March, the latest fallout from new boundaries drawn by Democrats.Over at Changing Gears, Pete Bigelow examines why the Midwest has tilted against Obama.Also in today’s Morning Drive Podcast, we examine what exactly is “advanced manufacturing."In sports, the Chicago Fire played the Seattle Sounders.Today will be nice, with sunny weather with highs around 72, getting down to 55 tonight.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean10-3-11: Marathon's money boon? The trial of Bill who? | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The Tea Party hits Chicagoland; the trial of an Illinois political powerbroker you've probably never heard of; the economics of the Chicago Marathon.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-29-11: Campaign money, babies and baseball | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.On today's podcast: Campaign fundraising deadline, Illinois' abandoned baby law and the end of Chicago baseball.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-28-11: Manufacturing policy, particle collider (R.I.P.) | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.On today's podcast: Why Midwestern manufacturing policy matters, remembering Chicagoland's particle collider (R.I.P.)It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-27-11: Goodbye, Ozzie; Hello, Lake Shore Drive tolls? | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Some wacky - and not-so-wacky - budget ideas from Chicago's watchdog; traditional Jewish music, a capella style; Oh, Ozzie, we heardly understood ye.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-26-11: Neuroeconomics and bad news Bears | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Remap and DuPage politics; why you can't resist that expensive cup of coffee; Oh, Bears.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-23-11: CPS layoffs and a vacant building in Evanston | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Chicago Public Schools will reportedly cut 200 jobs; Why Evanston won't sell a vacant industrial site; What's behind the Cheddar Curtain?It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-22-11: Furlough fight, doctor-patient communication | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: The brewing battle over furlough days for Cook County Board members; a new institute to facilitate doctor-patient communication; fare thee well, R.E.M.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-21-11: Housing quibble, Navistar workers, original Munchkin | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: CHA's housing quibble, Navistar workers reinvent themselves, and wishing a happy birthday to an O.M. (original Munchkin).It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-20-11: Chicago's ward remap and revisiting the Brickyard | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Redrawing Chicago's ward map, revisiting the Brickyard - and enjoy the weather, as we're a-headed for a cool-down.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-19-11: How effective are police cameras, Dick Cheney in Chicago, the Chicago River's future | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: How effective are Chicago's police cameras, former Vice President Dick Cheney is in Chicago, the future of the Chicago River.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-16-11: Indiana vs. a Chicago casino and fired firefighters | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: If Chicago gets a casino, will Illinois residents still go to Indiana to gamble? Plus, why firefighters were fired.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-15-11: Playwright John Logan, merging state offices, the world's longest bratwurst | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: Playwright John Logan talks about his new play, Red, which opens at the Goodman Theatre this weekend; can Illinois' comptroller and treasurer offices be combined; and an attempt to make the world's longest bratwurst in Chicago.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-14-11: Unpaid election fines and Chicagoland's biohazard lab | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: DuPage mosque, Illinois' backlog of election fines and a tour of Chicagoland's biohazard lab. Oh, yeah: Remember temperatures that begin with "3"? Those are coming back.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean9-14-11: Unpaid election fines and Chicagoland's biohazard lab | Chicago's top headlines, piped straight to your earbuds.In today's episode: DuPage mosque, Illinois' backlog of election fines and a tour of Chicagoland's biohazard lab. Oh, yeah: Remember temperatures that begin with "3"? Those are coming back.It's all the news that's fit to podcast. Click above to listen, click here to subscribe. | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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