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Chaka Khan is an 11 time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll hall of fame inductee, and has a song preserved in the Library of Congress. The cultural icon got her start in Chicago’s Hyde Park and Auburn Gresham. This week, she's releasing a new album co-written with Sia. WBEZ producer Haley Blomquist and Sun-Times reporter Erica Thompson sat down with her ahead of the album drop to talk about her Chicago roots and the freedom of making music on her own terms.