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Mar 29, 2015

Mike Stephen talks with Bucktown Community Organization president Steve Jensen about how residents are uniting to make his neighborhood a better place, and then Chicago Reader senior writer Mick Dumke stops by to discuss the Chicago Police's surveillance on citizens and how Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts...


Mar 23, 2015

New daddy Mike Stephen talks about a big Chicago mayoral runoff election issue with Citizens to Abolish Red Light Cameras committee member Don Bransford, discusses transportation issues and potholes with the The Expired Meter blogger The Parking Ticket Geek, and gets the story on Chicago blues multi-instrumentalist Big...


Mar 15, 2015

Mike Stephen welcomes Preservation Chicago executive director Ward Miller to the studio to talk about preserving historic architecture and the latest edition of the "2015 Chicago 7 Most Threatened Sites" list, and then calls up Toilography creator Dan Schaumann to learn about chronicling toilets in Chicago and beyond...


Mar 8, 2015

Mike Stephen looks at "A Quick Comment on Government Unions in Illinois" with Illinois Economic Policy Institute policy director Frank Manzo, previews the Story Week Festival of Writers with artistic director Eric May, and hears the story of Chicago bluesman Baby Doo Caston from Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) in...


Mar 1, 2015

Mike Stephen looks at "The anatomy of influence: Government unions in Illinois" with Illinois Policy Institute VP of communications Diana Rickert, examines at the Emerald Ash Borer infestation of our local greenery with Illinois Department of Agriculture Bureau of Environmental Programs Plant & Pesticide specialist Mark...