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Nearly two months into President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign, social media feeds from his administration and its right-wing allies paint a grim picture of Chicago.
Highly produced videos depict heroic military raids. And social media influencers help to spread the message that Chicago is a city plagued by violence, at war with the federal government.
But the videos don’t always match the reality of what’s happening in communities across the Chicago area.
Sun-Times reporter Nader Issa has been analyzing these videos with the help of several experts, and he joins us now to discuss his findings.
HOST: LARA
President Donald Trump has been outspoken in blaming crime on ‘sanctuary’ policies in Democratic states, but the numbers don’t tell the same story.
A WBEZ and Sun-Times analysis shows many Republican-led states actually have higher violent crime rates and faster-growing undocumented immigrant populations.
HOST: LANE
After police killed George Floyd in 2020, there was talk of a racial reckoning.
In the theater community, that reckoning took the form of a letter titled “We See You, White American Theater.” The letter demanded that theaters stop tokenizing artists of color and start implementing company wide anti-rascist trainings.
It would ultimately be signed by one-hundred-thousand artists, including many in Chicago.
Five years later, WBEZ reporter Mike Davis set out to learn what changed.
HOST: LANE
A federal judge today extended limits on the use of force by federal agents carrying out a Chicago-area deportation blitz.
The decision came after the judge heard clips of sworn testimony by the U.S. Border Patrol chief in charge of that operation.
He was asked about a pep talk for his agents by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Both say they’re going tough on violent mobs to protect the American people.
But the judge today found their use of force in Chicago, quote, “shocks the conscience” and chills First Amendment rights.
HOST: LARA
The 20-20 murder of George Floyd stirred waves of activism and protest across the country.
It also sparked a year of reflection. In Chicago, several major arts groups joined businesses big and small in showing solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Many promised in public D-E-I plans to make changes to better reflect the city they serve.
Now, five years later, the Sun-Times and WBEZ have surveyed 21 arts, culture and humanities nonprofits to see what progress they made.
Sun-Times reporter Erica Thompson joins us to talk about the survey and what she learned.
HOST: LANE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been targeting Chicago neighborhoods and the fear among residents and workers is palpable.
That’s meant delays in building repairs or missed rent payments … which some property managers say could raise the cost of rent.
HOST: LANE
It’s a facility where human rights abuses have been alleged, and that has been entirely cut off from the public.
There was another form of protest yesterday (MON).
It was music.
HOST: MELBA
Each year, Chicago’s cultural affairs department stages a competition for local musicians.
It’s called the Chicago Made Music Showcase….Winners go on to perform at Lollapalooza and Taste of Chicago ….and they get studio recording time.
The grand prize winner also receives ten-thousand dollars.
This year’s top vote getter is the singer Mara Love. She visited the studios of WBEZ sister station Vocalo to talk with Nudia Hernandez about what’s next.
HOST: LANE
We're answering YOUR questions about the National Guard and immigration agents in Chicago. Today’s Questions: "What are the qualifications for becoming an immigration agent?
HOST: LANE
Not all federal immigration officers are wearing ID badges on their uniforms more than three weeks after an order from a federal judge in response to a lawsuit.
And many of the IDs they are wearing can be hard to find or read
HOST: MELBA
Alongside the Chicago Sun-Times, we’re gathering your questions about all things money and finances.
Then each week, we get your questions answered by the people who know best.
This week, we’ve got this question from Murray who says:
Please explain supply and demand. Why is it that if a manufacturer has produced a product and has established a cost to manufacture and then sells more than anticipated, the asking/selling price increases because there is a “limited supply"? The cost to manufacture has NOT increased due to scarcity. Why the price increase? Is this the philosophy of “demand what the market will bear”?
To find out, we called up an expert.
HOST: LANE
After three decades of writing, Dale is calling it a career.
HOST: PUENTE
The dust is clearing in Springfield after state lawmakers wrapped up a busy fall veto session at around 4:30 this morning.
Democrats threw a financial lifeline to the Chicago-area’s mass transit system that raised tolls and sales taxes.
They pushed back against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement actions.
And they moved to allow physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients.
Here to help us break it all down is WBEZ’s Alex Degman.
HOST: LARA
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in Gary, Indiana yesterday (THURS) and made several surprising remarks.
HOST: LANE
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says immigration enforcement operations in the Chicago area will continue over the Halloween weekend.
Even though Governor J-B Pritzker asked her for a three day pause.
The back-and-forth came after federal agents conducted a recent raid on the Northwest side that disrupted an annual Halloween parade.
The ongoing immigration actions have families wondering how to keep their kids safe for the holiday celebrations.
HOST: LANE
How do you tell a really scary story? Three horror writers gathered at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School recently to discuss the ways they approach the genre.
It was part of the American Writers Museum’s upcoming exhibition called American Prophets: Writers, Religion and Culture that opens next month (Nov). It explores the ways writers tap into religion and spirituality.
HOST: LANE
Grayson was charged after shooting Sonya (sahn-yuh) Massey to death in her home after she call 9-1-1 for help. HOST: MELBA
Fall is the new Christmas. At least that's what the co-owner of Perfect Pumpkins Chicago says.
Nicole Regan and her mother, Cindy Nelson, love decorating their porches with pumpkins in elaborate fall displays.
And in 20-22 they turned that into a business – offering custom-designed fall arrangements to homeowners.
They’re one of several Chicago-area companies in the “pumpkin-concierge business.”
HOST: LANE
Museum visitors encounter Ono’s art before they even step inside. Out front there is a giant billboard that reads Peace is Power.
HOST: LANE
Homeland Security officials say the face coverings are a matter of agent safety.
But some former top U-S law enforcement officials are raising red flags.
HOST: MELBA
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