Daniel P. Tucker

Apr 25, 2024 | wbez.org | Daniel P. Tucker |Meha Ahmad

WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter. Pro-Palestinian student activists began to set up an encampment on the campus of Northwestern University Thursday morning to protest the war in Gaza. Police arrived on the scene within five minutes, a protestor told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Apr 9, 2024 | wbez.org | Ellie Gilbert-Bair |Daniel P. Tucker

URL Copied! The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said it will “carefully review the actions of the involved police officers and their supervisors to determine whether training, policy and directives were properly followed.” Flanked by family members, attorneys and supporters, Dexter Reed's mother, Nicole Banks, speaks to reporters outside the headquarters for Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

Mar 11, 2024 | wbez.org | Daniel P. Tucker |Lynnea Domienik |Sasha-Ann Simons

URL Copied! Terkel revealed the truth about Americans’ lives on the job in his 1974 book ‘Working.” A new oral history takes the same approach to today. Mar 11, 2024, 4:42pm CT A tattoo artist. Stay-at-home parents. A funeral director. A school custodian. Mark Larson talks to more than 100 people in a variety of professions for his book Working In The 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation. Reset checks in with the writer.

Mar 7, 2024 | wbez.org | Max Lubbers |Daniel P. Tucker

Illinois lawmakers are hoping to pass protections for the state’s wetlands this spring. The companion bills are an effort to reinstate guardrails after a Supreme Court ruling last year decreased protections for wetlands across the nation. What would the legislation do? The Illinois Department of Natural Resources could require wetland developers to get permits beforehand and pay the state back for losses of environmental benefits. Where are the wetlands in Illinois?

Mar 7, 2024 | wbez.org | Daniel P. Tucker

URL Copied! As WBEZ expands its coverage of the performing arts, Reset checks in with a new staffer on the theater he’s taking in. Each time new audiences enter a space, a story may be told by a different cast member. This also makes each show fresh for the audience and the actors. Mar 7, 2024, 2:49pm CT Mike Davis will lead coverage of the city’s theater scene as part of WBEZ’s new arts and culture desk, a first for the station.