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5 unusual facts about WBEZ


Eileen Favorite

Her poems and essays have also appeared in Poetry East, The Chicago Reader, Rhino, Midnight Mind and have aired on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ).

Lusia Strus

She has played for the Chicago Steppenwolf, Goodman, and Victory Gardens theaters as well as for the Curious Theatre Company, the Northlight Repertory, and others, and has also worked for Yoplait, WBEZ, and the Chicago Jazz Festival.

Matt Malloy

Malloy has contributed voice work for several episodes of the long-running WBEZ radio program, This American Life.

Secure Communities and administrative immigration policies

An investigation conducted by Chip Mitchell and other Chicago WBEZ reporters failed to substantiate the claim that inmates freed because of the Cook County detainer ordinance endanger the public more than other former inmates do, and that therefore the ordinance undermines public safety in the County.

WBEZ

Listener-supplied material will be culled from material uploaded to the station web site and recorded in neighborhood satellite studios and mobile recording stations at libraries, stores and events, similar to the "StoryBooths" of David Isay's StoryCorps project.


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Chicago Public Media

The organization was started to take over the operation of 91.5 WBEZ from the Chicago Board of Education in 1990.

Neil Tobin

Tobin has performed on broadcasts for WBEZ-FM, WGN-AM with Jonathon Brandmeier, WCKG-FM, KISS-FM, and WGN-TV (opposite Gary Sinise).

Torey Malatia

Controversy erupted in 2012 when WBEZ cancelled the program "Smiley & West", an interview program hosted by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West.


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