Chris Hagan
It smells like garbage and gym shoes, but, surprisingly, the city’s geographic center says a lot about Chicago’s soul.
On ‘Nerdette’, we’ve asked Tom Hanks, Jenny Slate, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and many more nerds to assign us homework. Here’s ALL of it.
A prospective Chicago parent wants to know where he could be within door-knocking distance of other families with kids. So we mapped them.
It’s hard to know exactly how many Falcons and Patriots fans call Chicago home, but U.S. Census data gives a clue
Measure the success of your favorite NFL team by counting the number of Americans who have never seen it win a Super Bowl.
President Donald Trump introduced an executive order Wednesday that included a temporary ban on immigration from a group of predominantly-Muslim Middle Eastern and African nations. According to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, nearly 25,000 Cook County residents have immigrated from those countries.
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows residents in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood have some of the highest rates of binge drinking in the country. The CDC estimates that in some parts of Lake View, more than a third of residents are engaged in binge drinking, which is defined as more than five drinks at a time for men and four drinks for women.
Chicago’s winter overnight parking ban goes into effect December 1. For the next four months, cars can be towed if they are parked on certain main thoroughfares between 3 and 7 a.m. The practice has been in effect for 36 years, but new reporting and data analysis from WBEZ shows some major flaws with the program. For one thing, cars are more likely to be towed on days when it does not snow. Huh? In addition, the city has had no problem plowing the streets during major snowstorms that have fallen outside of the four-month period. Morning Shift talks to WBEZ digital producer and reporter Chris Hagan about the parking ban and its flaws.
Since 1980, Chicago has prohibited residents from parking along snow routes, a policy that is now unnecessary.
Clinton saw more votes on the North Side than Obama, but she took in fewer votes on the South and West sides.
The nail-biting game began a new era for the city’s “lovable losers.” Here are moments from a night that generations of fans thought they’d never see.
After spending most of the season as the best team in baseball and favorites to win the World Series, the Cubs found a way to make themselves the underdog again. Trailing 3-2 in the best-of-seven series, the Cubs now have to win the final two games in Cleveland to win their first World Series in more than 100 years. Doing so would be unlikely, but not impossible. Even if you think the Cubs are the better overall team, they’re still more likely than not to lose the series. In our World Series simulator we gave the Cubs a 55 percent chance of winning a single game at Cleveland. To get the odds of that happening twice in a row, you’d multiply those chances together: 0.55 x 0.55 = 30 percent
Cubs fans finally have the prospect of seeing at least one World Series win in their lifetime. But, with a losing streak at 108 years, the team is getting close to not having anyone left who was alive for that last win.
WBEZ stats guru Chris Hagan has created a page where you can run a single playoff simulation to determine the North Sider’s actually chances of winning it all. Or, press a single button and have the computer run 1,000 simulations to see if the Cubs’ chances get any better.
WBEZ stats guru Chris Hagan has created a page where you can run a single playoff simulation to determine the North Sider’s actually chances of winning it all. Or, press a single button and have the computer run 1,000 simulations to see if the Cubs’ chances get any better.
The Cubs will likely be favored in every series they play on the way to the World Series, and heavy favorites to win it all. And by favorites, that’s around a 1-in-4 chance of winning. Or if you’re a Cubs fan, a 3-in-4 chance of losing. Even taking into account all of the Cubs advantages — the superstar lineup, stacked pitching staff, and homefield advantage through the National League playoffs — it’s more likely than not that Cubs fans will be disappointed again this year. Not because of goats or black cats, but probability. To test that out, we built a simulation you can run yourself. At the click of a button you can play your own version of the MLB playoffs as many times as you want.
While new Census figures show incomes rising nationally and in Chicago, the city’s black households aren’t sharing in the gains.