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Dec 27, 2015

Mike Stephen chats with Chicago Sun-Times staff reporter Mick Dumke about criminal justice and some of the other important issues he wrote about in 2015, checks in with Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) about guitarist Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson for this week's "Winter Blues" edition of The Secret History of Chicago...


Dec 25, 2015

Mike Stephen welcomes some great local musicians to the WGN Radio studios to hear their takes on some classic holiday songs. Danny Cozzi of All the Wine puts his unique spin on "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," Sam Burckhardt gives us his solo tenor saxophone version of...



Dec 13, 2015

Mike Stephen talks with Chicago Housing Initiative executive director Leah Levinger and board member Rodney Dawkins about the struggles of public housing in Chicago (see also Eve Ewing's New Republic story "Rahm's Next Scandal? Public Housing"), checks in with Newcity editor/publisher Brian Hieggelke about getting into...


Dec 6, 2015

Mike Stephen chats with local renaissance man and music historian Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) about his new book My Kind of Sound: The Secret History of Chicago Music Compendium, talks with Roosevelt High School junior Gabriel Viyella about working for better school lunches via his civics class and The...