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Jan 24, 2016

Mike Stephen talks with Courage Campaign: CTA founder Kara Crutcher about combating harassment on Chicago public transit and her reaction to a controversial ad campaign, checks in with Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) about guitar shredder Magic Slim for this week's "Winter Blues" edition of The Secret History of...


Jan 17, 2016

Mike Stephen catches up with Chicago's 45th Ward alderman John Arena about our city's finances and why the Progressive Caucus is urging the Emanuel administration to reconsider its plans to pay interest rate swap termination penalties, checks in with Jenner Academy of the Arts principal Robert Croston about...


Jan 10, 2016

Mike Stephen talks with 18-year old artist / photographer Austyn Wyche about documenting segregation in Chicago via his Connected Division project, chats with Scrappers Film Group journalism producer Yana Kunichoff about the new "Rights Lab" web series (in collaboration with Truthout) that premieres with the Can the...


Jan 3, 2016

Mike Stephen visits with Shake Rattle & Read owner Ric Addy before the venerable shop closes its doors in its 50th year; talks with artist/author Dmitry Samarov about quitting social media cold turkey; and in honor of entering our 10th year as a program, plays back a segment from OTL #416, our first WGN Radio show,...