In the Loop (Segments)

While ICE protestors are winning in Chicago courts, the battle itself can feel like a loss.

Six Illinois Democrats boycott President’s State of the Union address. Meanwhile, Governor Pritzker demands a $8.6 billion refund for Illinois taxpayers after the Supreme Court rules against Trump tariffs.

Housing affordability was a key concern in Gov. Pritzker’s budget address. We want to know what his solutions will look like, and if Chicago thinks they’ll work.

Northwestern’s Daisy Hernández explores how citizenship was constructed and has changed throughout American history as a tool of exclusion.

The N-word at the BAFTAs is the latest insult in a long, hard, disrespectful Black History Month.

In ‘Sinners,’ Ryan Coogler pays tribute to Black Chicago.

Democratic candidates for Illinois’ Congressional and Senate seats are taking stances against extreme immigration enforcement. What changed since the “tough on the border” rhetoric of the 2024 presidential election?

Since the war began, 30,000 people left Ukraine and came to Chicago as refugees or Temporary Protected Status holders.

A Chicago-area business owner reacts to the Supreme Court rejecting the tariffs that threatened to put them out of business.

Chicago travelers are a step closer to seeing a much-needed rehab to the Greyhound terminal that was at risk of being closed. We’ll get a history lesson from Dennis Rodkin, our architecture expert, and hear how researchers from DePaul University's Chaddick Institute want to see the 1980s piece of architecture reimagined.

Governor Pritzker proposes a state budget with a new tax on social media companies; 'false spring' brings record-breaking warm temperatures.

The Rev. Jackson platformed a number of issues that weren’t popular in the 1980s from apartheid in South Africa to LGBTQ+ and Palestinian rights.

The Rev. Jackson platformed a number of issues that weren’t popular in the 1980s from apartheid in South Africa to LGBTQ+ and Palestinian rights.

‘Ride Safe, Ride Smart, Ride Ready’ initiative aims to create statewide standard laws on e-motos to promote safety for riders, drivers and pedestrians

What’s the reality for Chicagoans with disabilities? Advocates weigh in and talk solutions.

In the Loop discusses how the late Rev. Jesse Jackson paved the way for Black and brown political leadership.

Advocates have long called for a role in city government to coordinate policy that serves the city’s LGBTQ+ communities. Now, as federal policies and funding for social services shift, Mayor Brandon Johnson has answered that call.

After a contentious budget process, Chicago’s city council passed a budget in December 2025 that did not include key elements the mayor wanted. Now, a group of alders are making sure he executes it.

From his civil rights activism starting in the ’60s to establishing the Rainbow PUSH coalition in 1996, Rev. Jackson served as one of the most influential Black activists throughout his life.

Tired of visiting a news website and getting hit with a paywall? Actor John Cusack feels your pain – and wants outlets to free the news that you need. He stops by to talk about what’s at stake when newsrooms are gutted, journalists are under fire, and information is gatekept. GUESTS: John Cusack, actor and founding board member of Freedom of the Press Foundation Seth Stern, chief of advocacy for F...

‘The depth of this story is like no other. It’s a family tale of a man that you think is a legend, but it makes him human,” said award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti.

New evidence released in the case of a woman shot five times by a Border Patrol agent. Chicago mayor’s ICE executive order faces criticism.

The history and future of Black poetry in Chicago

Rumors of a DHS shutdown lean more toward reality

Mayor of Hobart, Indiana defends Amazon data center