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January 10, 2019
Ken Davis is joined by mayoral candidate Bill Daley. They discuss his recent proposals to reduce the number of local school councils from about 500 to 60, and his assertion that the City Council should be reduced from 50 to 15 aldermen. He also proposes a hybrid school board, composed of four mayoral appointees and… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
December 22, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Marjorie Fritz-Birch and John Holden of the Edgewater Historical Society & Museum to discuss their exhibit “The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: One Juror‚Äôs Ordeal”. Marjorie Fritz-Birch’s mother, Jean Fritz, was a juror on the trial who documented her experience. Ken also visits the Greater Chicago Food Depository. This program was produced… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
December 20, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Mayoral candidate Amara Enyia. They discuss her vision for Chicago’s education, policing, housing and finance. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
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Chicago Newsroom
December 13, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Daniel Kay Hertz, author of The Battle of Lincoln Park. They discuss the profound impact that urban renewal had on the mid-century development of Lincoln Park, when early artists and rehabbers began reconstructing dilapidated brownstones and Victorians in the Old Town Triangle. Although the process began almost a hundred years… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
December 6, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by the BGA‚Äôs Casey Toner and WBEZ‚Äôs Miles Bryan to discuss an American Suburb2018: Dolton Illinois. In their joint reporting, they chronicled the rapid decline of that south suburb over the past 20 years as thousands of jobs evaporated and people who didn‚Äôt have the resources to move away got stuck… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
November 29, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by Mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot. They discuss her recent filing of petitions and her strong confidence that she‚Äôll survive challenges and appear on the February ballot. She discusses the corrosive effects of aldermanic prerogative, which she blames for the total lack of affordable housing construction in 22 of 77 community areas…. View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
November 15, 2018
Ken Davis is joined by the Chicago Rehab Network‚Äôs Executive Director David Jackson. They discuss yesterday‚Äôs City Council action which sought to create pilot programs in Pilsen and Little Village that could stem the rapid gentrification and Hispanic displacement in both communities. The Council also re-established the Department of Housing, which had been disbanded in… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
November 8, 2018
Do you really want to know what happened in Tuesday‚Äôs mid-term elections, and why? Join guest host Bruce DuMont and his stellar guests Delmarie Cobb and Ray Hanania on this week‚Äôs Chicago Newsroom. You‚Äôll learn who got elected and why and you‚Äôll also hear about the next big election in Chicago ‚Äì the race for… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
October 25, 2018
Jamie Kalven has played a significant role at every phase of the LaQaun McDonald shooting investigation. He was able to meet first with a critical eyewitness to the crime. He was first to obtain the autopsy report, which he says was almost as effective as having McDonald himself as a witness. And finally, Kalven played… View Article
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Chicago Newsroom
October 18, 2018
Guest host Kitty Kurth talks environment and science today with Howard Learner of the Environmental Law and Policy Center, and Monica Metzler of the Illinois Science Council. They offer advice to Chicago‚Äôs next mayor and other elected officials about how to make the city, and the region more environmentally friendly and how the intersection of… View Article
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