Chicago’s Full Moon Jam is now a popular city-sanctioned attraction. But it began back in 2004 as a birthday party among friends.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Lightfoot Goes After Ted Cruz: Friday News Roundup For Sept. 6, 2019
David Greising of the Better Government Association, Amanda Vinickey of WTTW and A.D. Quig of Crains’ Chicago Business break down the biggest news stories of the week, including Mayor Lightfoot’s twitter spat with Sen. Ted Cruz, the latest on the city budget, the most recent talk of a looming teacher’s strike, and much more.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Growing Up Bears: Chairman George McCaskey On His Family’s Business And Passion
Bears' chairman George McCaskey talks to Cheryl Raye Stout about his life and work as the grandson of the team's-and the NFL's-founder George Halas
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicago Below National Average For Murder Cases Solved, Prose
WBEZ’s Patrick Smith explains why prosecution numbers for murder cases are so low. And things to do this weekend around Chicago with See, Hear, Eat.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - CPS Teacher Returns To Classroom After Stint In Academia
In his new book, Chicago Public Schools teacher Gregory Michie writes about what it was like to return to teach in the same middle school in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood where he began his career after more than a decade as an education professor.
Morning Shift digs into what’s different about the teaching profession this decade compared with the late 1990s and how Michie navigates his role as a white teacher in a school that’s almost exclusively made up of black and brown students.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Nick Offerman Loves The Simple Things In Life
Actor, author, and woodworker Nick Offerman talks about his family, his time in Chicago, and his philosophy on life as he prepares to take his one-man show on the road. He’ll hit the Chicago Theater Sept. 15th.
Curious City - The Cha-Cha Slide And More: Which Dances Were Invented In Chicago?
Don your dancing shoes as we track down the Chicago band members, musicians, and dancers who helped create five iconic moves.Â
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Bonus Pod – Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s State of the City Speech
Mayor Lightfoot's complete speech from 8-29-19
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Lightfoot’s State Of The City: Friday News Roundup For August 30, 2019
Mayor Lightfoot had good news and bad news when she delivered her state-of-the-city speech last night. The good was the number of reforms and cost-saving measures she implemented in her first 100 days. The bad news is, those reforms may not be enough to save us as we face major-and immediate-fiscal challenges. WBEZ political reporter Dan Mihalopoulos fills in for Jenn White, and is joined by Heather Cherone of the Daily Line and Paris Schutz of WTTW for a lively roundup of the speech, and the other important local news of the week.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What Will The Mayor Say Tonight? And The Many Layers Of Gone With The Wind
In the latest installment of The Movie That Made Me, Lesle Honore of the KLEO Community Family Life Center talks about her attachment to, and struggles with, the classic film Gone With the Wind.
Plus A.D. Quig of Crains’ takes a stab at what Mayor Lightfoot will say tonight at her first State of the City address. The speech airs at 6pm here on WBEZ.