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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.

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Just in time for National Poetry Month, Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-Chicago) presents the latest series of studio recordings featuring finalists from the 2012 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Festival and Competition.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Mar 27, 2012
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25 Pieces

Just in time for National Poetry Month, Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-Chicago) presents the latest series of studio recordings featuring finalists from the 2013 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Festival and Competition, including the heart-wrenching "Found Letters to My Granddaughter" and the viral successes "Thick" and "Ray" - all under 3 minutes!

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Apr 12, 2013
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From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White talks with Obama’s key advisors, mentors, rivals, and the former President himself.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: May 23, 2018
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Nerdette is a safe space for nerding out about all the things you're watching, reading, listening to and encountering in real life. Hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen talk to people about their obsessions: from science to science fiction, great lady nerds of history to Beyoncé.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Jun 06, 2017
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A new series investigating mental illness in youth.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Oct 28, 2011
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A sound-rich, experimental comedy program from WBEZ-FM Chicago Public Radio

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Sep 18, 2005
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Studio 312 is an offbeat celebrity interview segment hosted by Chicago comedian and radio personality, Jimmy Carrane. Carrane's quirky interview style is humorous and informative. His comedic approach delivers a satircal take on the serious or hard-ball interview. Think: Stephen Colbert-meets-Jiminy Glick. Carrane asks the questions that everyone else is too polite to ask, often with hilarious consequences. His quirky style, and half-insider half-clueless persona, allows his guests to reveal a side of themselves you wouldn’t normally hear. Previous interviews include Conan O’Brien, Frangela, Cindy Crawford, Tommy Chong, Harold Ramis and Dr. Laura Berman, to name a few. Studio 312 is a co-creation between Jimmy Carrane and WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio. The segment airs regularly on WBEZ's award-winning morning magazine program, Eight Forty-Eight.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Sep 04, 2009
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Host Jonathan Groubert and WBEZ have teamed up to bring back the revered program, The State We're In. In Season 1 of this reboot, you'll hear astonishing true and personal stories from all over the globe. The sonically beautiful, and narratively gripping "talkumentary" program brings you guests who will amaze you, break your heart or leave you laughing -- sometimes, all at once.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Jan 13, 2014
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EMBARGOED FOR AIR UNTIL JANUARY 16, 2017 AUDIO AVAILABLE FOR STATIONS TO AUDITION "The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unflinching look at the intersection of poverty and education in this country. It tells the story of a fourth grade classroom at William Penn Elementary, a public school in one of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, North Lawndale on Chicago’s West Side. The documentary weaves together human stories in the school, from the children to their teacher to the principal, and pulls back to explain the big picture. It looks at poverty’s hold on school achievement and explores the unintended consequences of a core belief driving school reform today – that poverty is no excuse for low achievement.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Jan 10, 2017
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Content produced and presented by Vocalo for WBEZ.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Oct 14, 2014

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Caption:  The new Aqua tower is nearing completion at the northwest corner of Lakeshore East, a development that’s drawn families with kids and empty-nesters to downtown., Credit: WBEZ/Ashley Gross
There are 6,000 unsold homes in downtown Chicago, and that’s left many people questioning plans to create sustainable living in the area.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2009
  • Length: 06:34
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National banks are getting into the practice of modifying mortgages for homeowners facing foreclosure, and that worries some housing experts.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2009
  • Length: 05:42
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Some residents of a South Chicago neighborhood share what it's like to live on a "ghost block."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 11, 2009
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 1
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That mix tape you received from an ex

Bought by KALW, KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 27, 2009
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 4
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A one-hour, music rich appreciation of the legendary Chicago-born jazz saxophonist. Griffin died at the age of 80 on July 25, 2008.

Bought by Vermont Public, WNIJ, WCPN, and WNCU


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Youth voices share their perspectives on Black masculinity.

Bought by WFAE, WEAA, New Hampshire Public Radio, WYSO, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2008
  • Length: 52:33
  • Purchases: 19
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Her fouth year in the competition, Dianna says this piece is about Emmett Till's mother. Dianna Harris is 17 years old and was an individual final...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Her third year in the competition, Melissa says this piece is about questioning Judaism. Melissa Goldman is 17 years old and was an individual fin...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:12
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Her first year in the competition, Camea says this piece is about encouraging young women to love themselves and succeed beyond adversity. Camea O...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
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His second year in the competition, Demetrius says this piece is about fitting into all four of his races. Demetrius Amparan is 17 years old and w...

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1