Tia Carol Jones, Kathy Chaney, Samantha Thomas, and Christa A. Hamilton join host Andrea Zopp to discuss the mayoral race and what women want in the next mayor of Chicago.
Wednesday ⦿ 7:00PM (CST) ⦿ CAN TV19Chicago Newsroom 2.0 takes a closer look at the week’s top local news stories as reported In the newspapers, online, on the radio, and on TV. An array of local journalists join the show’s host each week to provide color and context, and in-the-room insights on the stories most… View Article
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is our first guest on this final Chicago Newsroom. She talks about the personal impact on her life as she realized that she was almost certainly going to win. She discusses her relationship with the police, and tells us she believes that despite her frosty relationship with the police union, they will… View Article
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is our first guest on this final Chicago Newsroom. She talks about the personal impact on her life as she realized that she was almost certainly going to win. She discusses her relationship with the police, and tells us she believes that despite her frosty relationship with the police union, they will… View Article
On this penultimate episode of Chicago Newsroom, we invite three friends of the show to share their memories and observations about the current political and professional scene. Chicago Tribune investigative reporter Hal Dardick tells us that Lori Lightfoot, with her remarkable mandate, has a short, but powerful window in which to initiate significant change in… View Article
Flint Taylor discusses his new book The Torture Machine, which details fifty years of police abuse of power, on this week’s show. He discusses his early involvement with the murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark on December 4, 1969, and how he and other young Northwestern law students, having recently founded the People’s Law… View Article
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Alderman of the 35th Ward, is our guest this week. He was, until the recent election, the only Democratic Socialist in the City Council, but he will soon be joined by five others, thereby creating a six-member Progressive Caucus. Ramirez-Rosa discusses the Emmett Street Project, which, when built, will house 100 affordable units,… View Article
Professors Mary Patillo (Northwestern) and Stacey Sutton (UIC) speak with us this week about the many ways in which the City of Chicago exacerbates poverty with its injurious, escalating fines and punishments. At the municipal level, we cite the example that a person can receive a $200 fine for not purchasing a $100 city sticker…. View Article
Aneel Chablani, the attorney from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights who filed suit to invalidate the TIF funding for Chicago’s Lincoln Yards project, is one of today’s guests. He’s joined by Brenda Delgado, Board President at Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education. They assert that tax increment funding for a project in such… View Article