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Blair Kamin, the Chicago Tribune’s Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, gives host Jeremy Hobson a tour of downtown Chicago’s architecture.
The Second City remains a mecca for those hoping to make a career out of comedy — even though the rise of competitors like The Annoyance Theatre or The iO Theater mean there are more options than ever for aspiring comedians in Chicago.
Chicago’s black population is on track to shrink to 665,000 by 2030 — down from a peak of about 1.2 million. Some have called the phenomenon a “reverse Great Migration.”
A federal extortion case wasn’t enough to unseat Chicago’s longest-serving alderman, Ed Burke. He was re-elected Tuesday to his 13th term, just weeks after FBI agents raided his offices.
The University of Illinois Hospital has started providing permanent housing for homeless patients that repeatedly show up in emergency rooms.
Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson rounds up Illinois politics news with Niala Boodhoo of Illinois Public Media and Sean Crawford, news director at WUIS in Springfield.
A Twitter user posted a picture of a Tesla with the license plate “1488" — numbers commonly used as shorthand to endorse white supremacists — and questioned why the state had issued it.
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner are unveiling “Starshot,” their new space exploration initiative.
Among those endorsing local candidates are Grammy-winning singer John Legend and President Obama.
The state’s eight-month budget impasse has caused funding to dry up for numerous public programs, including higher education.
Jeremy Hobson talks with political analysts and visits a center that offers services to Nashville’s growing immigrant population.
Jeremy Hobson spoke with Ben Carson, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn and voters at a GOP event in Franklin.
Republican and Democratic candidates alike are vowing to take on skyrocketing drug prices, but would any of their plans works?
Republican and Democratic candidates alike are vowing to take on skyrocketing drug prices, but would any of their plans works?
“Every time he looked at Syria, he saw Iraq and feared this would become a new Iraq,” says Dennis Ross of President Obama.
“Every time he looked at Syria, he saw Iraq and feared this would become a new Iraq,” says Dennis Ross of President Obama.
Jeremy Hobson checks in at the Clinton and Sanders field offices in Columbia, South Carolina, and stops by Columbia College.
Jeremy Hobson talks with Republican voters at three events across South Carolina, ahead of the state’s primary election.