Jun 26, 2016
Mike Stephen talks with former Chicago Legislative Inspector General Faisal Khan about Project Six, a new independent organization created to provide City Council oversight; chats with Future Firm architects and partners Ann Lui and Craig Reschke about their "Rebel Garages" plan to remake our city alleys into places of...
Jun 19, 2016
Mike Stephen welcomes local renaissance man and raconteur Jack Zimmerman to the studio to share Chicago tales and to preview his latest show FAMILY PHOTOS -- six stories of fathers, sons, barkeeps, and philosophers, and visits with Bike a Bee creator and head beekeeper Jana Kinsman at the apiary at Plant Chicago...
Jun 12, 2016
Mike Stephen visits with Chicago Tribune writer Nick Kindelsperger at La Lagartija Taqueria about his monthlong taco-eating journey and why and how Chicago is a taco town, catches up with writer and cultural critic Anne Elizabeth Moore about her new book Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking and how she won a house...
Jun 5, 2016
Mike Stephen talks with Urban Coyote Research Program principal investigator Stanley Gehrt about wildlife ecology and the upswing of the Chicago coyote population, chats with Wilson L Public Space Committee co-chair Julianne Scherer about the proposed Wilson Underline plan to beautify CTA space in Uptown, and...