In the Loop (Segments)

Ask the Mayor, December 2025 18.12.2025 48:46 ↓

Ask the Mayor, December 2025

Our favourite tunes of 2025 17.12.2025 16:49 ↓

What was your favorite Chicago artist or album this year?

Our favourite tunes of 2025 17.12.2025 16:49 ↓

What was your favorite Chicago artist or album this year?

Local Jewish community gathers for Hanukkah after Bondi Beach attack 17.12.2025 13:34 ↓

Members of Chicago’s Jewish community are embracing unity and light after the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia last week.

With federal tax credits expiring, what’s ahead for Illinois’ solar industry? 17.12.2025 15:19 ↓

With federal tax credits expiring, what’s ahead for Illinois’ solar industry?

Workers at Chicago’s cultural institutions are getting organized 17.12.2025 17:56 ↓

Workers at Chicago’s cultural institutions are getting organized

WTB? Chicago Board Options Exchange 15.12.2025 11:30 ↓

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History, evidence don’t fully back up corporate head taxes are ‘job killers’ 15.12.2025 18:55 ↓

A WBEZ analysis finds that there isn’t enough data to show that the tax has a bearing on employment, one way or the other.

WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap, Dec. 12, 2025: City budget battle, frigid temps and more 12.12.2025 47:09 ↓

Chicago’s budget showdown continues, Indiana’s legislature bucks Trump redistricting trend, and ICE agents were out in force in west suburban Elgin.

Nurses are heroes, but they’re not professionals, according to the Department of Education 11.12.2025 13:26 ↓

Nurses are heroes, but they’re not professionals, according to the Department of Education

As the ACA extension deadline approaches, Chicagoans are bracing themselves for the worst 11.12.2025 19:47 ↓

As the ACA extension deadline approaches, Chicagoans are bracing themselves for the worst

How four planes made an audacious landing on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive 10.12.2025 10:29 ↓

How Lake Shore Drive became a runway for the Museum of Science and Industry’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

AMA calls federal vaccine rollbacks ‘reckless.’ Here’s what the new guidance means for Illinois families. 10.12.2025 19:43 ↓

What you need to know about the CDC’s latest reversal on vaccine guidelines

Critique of Chicago alders’ alternative budget proposals 09.12.2025 16:44 ↓

“People need to decide whether to tax corporations and pay for youth jobs, violence prevention… or tax Chicagoans and cut vital services,” says Julie Dworkin, co-executive director of the Institute for the Public Good.

Cookbooks to buy – and maybe avoid – this gift-giving season 09.12.2025 10:09 ↓

Chicago Public Media’s food enthusiasts tested recipes from nine cookbooks published this year.

Helping kids manage divorce during the holiday season 08.12.2025 35:43 ↓

Helping kids manage divorce during the holiday season

Spotify UNwrapped? Chicago indie artists are pulling their music from the platform 08.12.2025 13:56 ↓

Spotify UNwrapped? Chicago indie artists are pulling their music from the platform

What’s inside alders’ alternative budget plan the mayor is rejecting 08.12.2025 15:50 ↓

What’s inside alders’ alternative budget plan the mayor is rejecting

WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap, Dec. 5, 2025: City budget battle, record-breaking November snow and more 05.12.2025 36:06 ↓

Chicago Mayor Johnson battles alders over budget. Plus, Northwestern agrees to pay $75 million in a deal with the federal government.

“Rieles y Raíces” tells the story of Mexican railroad workers in the Midwest 04.12.2025 10:53 ↓

“Rieles y Raíces” tells the story of Mexican railroad workers in the Midwest

Chicago’s safety net hospitals are stepping up to serve uninsured patients 04.12.2025 15:55 ↓

Chicago’s safety net hospitals are stepping up to serve uninsured patients

Why mental health care should be at the top of your holiday to-do list 03.12.2025 14:16 ↓

‘In the Loop’ discusses how to mind your mental health during the holidays.

Chicagoan Robert Townsend is back in town for a film festival featuring some of his most iconic roles 03.12.2025 13:07 ↓

Robert Townsend’s Pop-Up Film Festival benefits Chicago’s West Side branch of the NAACP and a local award-winning autism advocacy agency, The Answer Inc.

Chicagoan Robert Townsend is back in town for a film festival featuring some of his most iconic roles 03.12.2025 13:07 ↓

Robert Townsend’s Pop-Up Film Festival benefits Chicago’s West Side branch of the NAACP and a local award-winning autism advocacy agency, The Answer Inc.

Holiday productions to put on your radar 02.12.2025 8:09 ↓

A roundup of the best theatrical productions Chicago has to offer this holiday season.