WBEZ racks up EIGHT Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards - out of 11 categories - including best "news documentary" for our "Becoming Bovino" podcast in partnership with the Sun-Times! www.rtdna.org/2026-regiona...

WEIU-TV, a PBS affiliate at Eastern Illinois University shut down Friday due to the loss of federal funding for public media. As experts have noted, smaller rural TV and radio stations have suffered most, located where residents already have limited news sources. READ: https://loom.ly/aT-pX4w

Καλό παράδεισο, Mister Sam chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

Samantha Steele ran for reelection as a Cook County elected official while facing a DUI case in Cook County court. She lost in the Democratic primary in March. But she won in court today chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

The DUI trial of lame-duck Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele began today. The prosecution is making their case, but they have adjourned for the day and will resume at 9 AM tomorrow, with a couple more witnesses…

Load up the rack and drive to these five Midwest destinations where you can explore mostly flat, scenic trails that offer an idyllic getaway.

Make sure to click listen to hear this moving storytelling from @wbez.org’s @chipmitchell1.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Today is World Press Freedom Day. Respect first to independent Russian colleagues I’ve met over the years — none of whom still live in Russia. Our solidarity with all who are exiled from homelands where journalism is seen as a crime…

The shooting death in the line of duty of CPD officer John Bartholomew is big news also in Greece, as he was of Greek heritage. Αιωνία η μνήμη του epolitical.gr/sikago-nekro...

Honored to be among the reporters/writers/podcasters on a story that won a couple of the many National Headliners Awards for @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org in this year’s competition

“In my 25 years as a federal judge, I’ve never seen the type of brutality shown by the agents involved in Midway Blitz” chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

Judge John Lyke Jr. said he saw positive changes in Alphanso Talley when he released him from custody late last year, over prosecutors’ objections. Talley is now charged with shooting two Chicago cops, killing officer John Bartholomew.

under questioning from Rep. Smith, a DoD official estimates the cost of the Iran war so far is $25 billion

A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

Been reporting in Chicago long enough to have covered every City Hall IG - and more than long enough to remember when the new IG brought a federal civil fraud case vs a key Rahm Emanuel ally

Big news for anti-corruption efforts in Illinois chicago.suntimes.com/madigan-tria...

Gerontocracy www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Four-year sentence in Oct 23. Paroled in January. In court today to face charges in murder of a CPD officer chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

So many questions about this horrible tragedy. Deepest condolences to the family of Officer John Bartholomew, the young man slain in the line of duty. May his memory be eternal. Prayers for the officer “fighting for his life” chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

Annual Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl is today. This story comes with an interactive map so you can easily find the closest of the 84 participating bookstores to you www.wbez.org/books/2026/0...

Unprecedented number of investigations and indictments that go nowhere in the Trump DOJ

As if Dr Google was not bad enough. We all know non-doctors who think they are smarter than MDs. AI is having a deadly impact on them… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

WBEZ supporters enjoy live jazz in the performance studio at Navy Pier tonight. Journalist Rob Wildeboer on the piano while engineer Dave Miska works the sound board

A few years ago, Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers sought a restraining order against a journalist, characterizing routine reporting as stalking. It was seen as just a nutty story about a fringe local politician. Now the FBI is exploring similar theories.

#JournalismIsNotACrime And federal law-enforcement is not a weapon for those in power to intimidate their perceived critics www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Alden Loury crunched the numbers and found Black economic mobility in Chicago is dead last among 50 major cities chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

They love to say they are for LEGAL immigration. But this

Trade unions and the rich alike betting heavily on another change on the 5th floor chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

Having an unpopular ICE detention in town drains hundreds of thousands of dollars from an inner-ring suburb of Chicago chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/04...

The heirs to the wealthy principality — I mean municipality — of Rosemont are getting along about as well as William and Harry www.dailyherald.com/20260415/new...

Biggest skewer of tacos al pastor I’ve ever seen — in a strip mall parking lot in Des Plaines, IL just now

The soft landing for longtime Ald Walter Burnett is not going to happen chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...

Another charter school scandal in Chicago — this one involving a fallen star of the movement for privately run/publicly funded education chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

The correlation between being against mail voting and sympathies for Putin spans the Atlantic… apnews.com/article/slov...

The Republicans on the US Supreme Court made it harder to get a corruption conviction. How that could set free ex-Illinois Dem boss Mike Madigan www.axios.com/local/chicag...

Bilking the federal government of PPP funds while getting a CPD paycheck

Man, I miss this dude

He once was People Magazine’s Hero of the Year for his work with young Black male students in Chicago. Today, Tim King became a federal criminal defendant. My story on the latest accusations of charter school corruption chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

The head of Chicago's biggest police union was really angry about a measure to rid the CPD of cops with extremist ties

Last year, we broke the story that the feds were investigating Chicago charter school operator Tim King. Well, they just announced they've indicted him for allegedly stealing from the once-vaunted charter. More to come soon ... www.wbez.org/education/20...

BREAKING: three *more* women have come forward to @cnn.com and accuse Rep. Eric Swalwell of sexual misconduct, including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos: www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

What good is education for people in prison? Find out by listening from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday to “Prisoncast!” on WBEZ-91.5 FM or online at wbez.org.

“The radio show made with and for people in Illinois jails and prisons and their loved ones.” On @wbez.org from 2-4 PM tomorrow chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS PENTAGON TO COMPLY WITH RULING RESTORING PRESS ACCESS - COURT DECISION

Καλό Πάσχα! Καλή Ανάσταση! 🙏🇬🇷☦️

It’s a good day for an investigative reporter when you leave an off-the-record interview with a bankers box that has documents piled more than halfway to the lid…

A nomination for the prestigious Peabody Award today for this must-watch documentary -- which featured key input from ex-Border Patrol senior agent @jennbudd.bsky.social (who also generously granted @wbez.org an interview in December in California) www.hbomax.com/movies/criti...

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

As #Trump threatens strikes on civilian targets in #Iran, the November video from Democratic veterans urging military members to disobey illegal orders becomes newly relevant. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...

A federal court recently upheld journalists' First Amendment rights by ruling that DHS used unlawful force against reporters at LA immigration protests last year. Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain, and if you're a journalist facing a press freedom violation, contact @pressfreedomtracker.us.