WBEZ

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WBEZ 91.5 offers over 560,000 listeners each week a wide variety of programs from news and public affairs to music and arts.  Chicago Public Media produces such distinctive and innovative programming as This American Life, Eight Forty-Eight, Sound Opinions, Worldview and Vocalo.org. WBEZ is the only Chicago area member station of NPR®, producers of Morning Edition® and All Things Considered®. We also broadcast programming distributed by Public Radio International and American Public Media as well as from many other national and international program sources.

Series

Caption: www.wbez.org/cleverapes
30 Pieces

WBEZ’s science experiment, “Clever Apes” is a nano-sized show with a cosmic scope. It tells the stories of the rich scientific community of the Chicago area, its quirky characters and the fascinating, often mind-bending questions they’re out to answer. But it is not so Chicago-centric that it won't work for your town.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Apr 05, 2012
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0 Pieces

From Nobel Peace Prize winners to Nicaraguan sweatshop workers, Worldview highlights a range of voices that go beyond the headlines.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Apr 21, 2011

Latest Pieces

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A finalist in the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Slam, Tasha Viets-VanLear is a junior at Northside College Prep in Chicago. She says "Rememb...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
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Benj was a finalist in the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Slam. A junior at Northside College Prep in Chicago, Benj says his poem is about ho...

Bought by KUER, KRZA, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 3
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Josh Hoffman is a senior at Northside College Prep. A finalist in the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Competition, Josh says this poem is about...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Tyler Sauter is a sophomore at Northside College Prep in Chicago and a finalist in the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Slam. Tyler says his poe...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
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Team Northside College Prep was one of four teams taking part in the final round of competition during the 2010 Louder than a Bomb Teen Poetry Slam...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
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It’s the season for holiday office parties. Awkward standing around…maybe some late night craziness with co-workers. This year, millions of people ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 03:34
Caption: Exelon's Tom O'Neill stands in front of a fleet of solar panels., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
On the Far South Side of Chicago, a vacant industrial site is being transformed into a state-of-the-art energy project. When it’s done, it will be ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The government has shuttered 120 banks this year and 19 in Illinois alone. But few closures have caused as much consternation and community concern...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2009
  • Length: 03:55
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Chicago Public Radio's Adriene Hill visits Macy's in Chicago to find out how their holiday hiring is going.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:03
Caption:  Historic rail worker rowhouses in Chicago's Pullman neighborhood. The one on the right is boarded up and in foreclosure., Credit: WBEZ/Ashley Gross
WBEZ's Ashley Gross talks to people who are reviving neighborhoods hit hard by the foreclosure crisis.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 06:59