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How much influence did white supremacist groups have on Chicago housing?

2 weeks ago | wbez.org | Joe DeCeault |Joe DeCeault ‏

In the summer of 1951, Harvey and Johnetta Clark were set to move into an apartment in Cicero. At the time, it was a working-class, all-white suburb just west of Chicago. The Clarks, a Black family, had found a willing landlord. The white tenants in the building didn’t object. But others in the neighborhood and outside groups did. “The night before, as police are ‘watching the home,’ a mob shows up ...
How Curious City got its start

Jun 20, 2024 | wbez.org | Adriana Cardona-Maguigad |Joe DeCeault |Katherine Nagasawa |Maggie Sivit

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2022. In the early 2000s, Jennifer Brandel was working in the media services office of the Bahá'í Temple in Wilmette, Illinois, translating texts about the Bahá'í faith into easy-to-read language. She was struck by one of the texts outlining the group’s approach to learning and service.
Susie An

May 30, 2024 | wbez.org | Joe DeCeault

Susie An is a reporter for WBEZ and covers state and suburban education. She also serves as an occasional news anchor and show host on WBEZ. She’s directed shows like, Schools on the Line, a past WBEZ call-in show focusing on education in Chicago. Her work has also been heard on NPR, CBC and BBC. Susie joined WBEZ as a news desk intern in September 2007. Prior to joining WBEZ, Susie worked at the Peoria Journal Star newspaper and worked as an acquisitions editor for Publications International, Ltd.
Maggie Sivit

May 11, 2024 | wbez.org | Justin Bull |JP Swenson |Joe DeCeault |Adriana Cardona-Maguigad

Maggie is Curious City’s digital and engagement producer. As the show’s digital producer, she works closely with Curious City’s editor and reporters to oversee web production from start to finish: from adapting podcast scripts into original web articles to contributing additional reporting to editing text to creating or sourcing visuals.
Meet the prolific graffiti artist whose work is all over Chicago’s Northwest Side

Feb 22, 2024 | wbez.org | Joe DeCeault

WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter. Street artist Joos is perhaps best known for works that resemble ribbons of dissolving color, or paint that’s been pressure washed and left blooms of pigment behind. “It’s like, is it a shadow? Is it a silhouette? What is it?
▶️ Listen Now: We’ve got answers to your winter-related questions

Jan 4, 2024 | wbez.org | Jason Marck |Joe DeCeault |Susie An |Adriana Cardona-Maguigad |Maggie Sivit |Elvia Malagon

This week, we rounded up answers to five winter-related questions: What’s the purpose of the sand dunes along Lake Michigan in the winter? Starts at 2:20 How does salt runoff from Chicago roads affect our waterways? Starts at 5:10 How do I avoid ice falling from buildings when I see those “Caution: Falling ice” signs? Starts at 12:23 How much sun does Chicago get in the winter compared to other cities?
The Fireside Bowl: An unlikely place for punks of all ages

Sep 14, 2023 | wbez.org | Joe DeCeault

WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter. Growing up in the Chicago suburbs in the 1980s and ’90s, Joe Principe was a kid filled with a little rage and plenty of restlessness. Like other teens, he was searching for an outlet in music that grabbed him by his adolescent collar. “I got into punk when I was really young, probably fourth grade … I would go into [my sister’s] bedroom and steal her cassettes.
How the ‘deadliest man alive’ stoked Chicago’s infamous ‘dojo wars’

Jun 2, 2023 | wbez.org | Joe DeCeault

WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter. Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of violence. Floyd Webb remembers the first time he met John Keehan. It was 1964, and Webb was just 10 years old, scrubbing out garbage cans in an alley in Chicago’s Chinatown to earn pocket money. Webb was living on the other side of the expressway in the Harold Ickes housing project.