WBEZ Presents Podcast
1) Womb Service: DePaul students run free contraceptive delivery network
Most colleges have buckets of free condoms at their health centers — or even Plan B vending machines. DePaul University in Lincoln Park is on the opposite end of the spectrum. The Catholic camp...Show More
2) What cuts might be coming to public transit?
Illinois lawmakers ended their Spring Session without passing any legislation to address a looming financial cliff for the state’s public transit agencies. Metra, Pace and the C-T-A are up against ...Show More
3) New from WBEZ - The Pie
Listen to the first episode of this new collaboration between WBEZ and The University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute. Economists are always talking about The Pie - how it grows and shrinks, ho...Show More
4) City On Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919
One hundred years ago, all across this country, racial tensions were exploding into violence so brutal that it would become known as the Red Summer. Chicago saw some of the worst violence in deadly at...Show More
5) ‘Convoy’: A Real Hit From A Fictional Country Star
C.W. McCall had a surprise No. 1 hit in 1976. But he was actually an ad executive playing the character of a country singer. Sound Opinions producer Evan Chung tells the strange story of how “Convoy” ...Show More
6) WBEZ Presents: Finding Dr. Fong
Upon discovering a pattern of students skipping swim class in the CPS system, WBEZ’s Linda Lutton attempts to follows the trail of sick notes and track down their progenitor: one elusive and enigmatic...Show More
7) The War On Coal In Southern Illinois
Last summer, WBEZ reporter Dan Weissmann traveled to West Frankfort, a small town in southern Illinois that briefly played host to a small battle in the so-called “war on coal.” With coal at the cente...Show More
8) Exit Interview: WBEZ’s Ben Calhoun Returns To ‘This American Life’
After more than two years as WBEZ’s vice president of content and programming, Ben Calhoun is returning to the staff at This American Life. WBEZ’s Shannon Heffernan sat down with Calhoun on his last d...Show More
9) The NBA, PB&J And WBEZ
ESPN reporter Baxter Holmes tracked the popularity of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the NBA. We speak with Holmes – and WBEZ employees – about the famous sandwich.
10) Chess Records
Chicago-based Chess Records helped make stars of Muddy Waters, Etta James and a force of nature named Chuck Berry, who died March 18, 2017, at his home outside St. Louis. He was 90. In 2010, WBE...Show More