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Curious City on your TV!

The newly built WYCC PBS Chicago studios for ‘In the Loop.’

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If you can’t get enough of the questions and answers posed to Curious City, and you own a television, we have good news: Curious City videos are a part of WYCC’s new public affairs show, In the Loop.

The half-hour show airs on WYCC PBS Chicago (Channel 20) every Thursday at 7 p.m. and Curious City videos close out each week’s show. The show also re-runs each Sunday at 6:30 p.m.

Curious City videos that air on In the Loop can also be found on wbez.org, embedded in the article on the story’s subject. Just use the search box in the upper right of wbez.org, or scroll through our story archive.

In the Loop is hosted by veteran national journalists Barbara Pinto and Chris Bury. Pinto has worked as a news anchor and correspondent for ABC, MSNBC and CNBC. Bury has also worked extensively with ABC and served as the principal substitute anchor for Ted Koppel on Nightline.

WYCC PBS Chicago broadcasts out of Chicago’s South Side Englewood neighborhood and is licensed to the City Colleges of Chicago. The station features a mix of informational, instructional and educational programming. For more videos from WYCC PBS Chicago, head to their youtube page.

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