Podcast Episodes

COVID Meds Sticker Shock, LGBTQ Health Center Layoffs, and Chi Holiday Traditions

November’s general election saw the fourth-lowest midterm voter turnout in Illinois in 40 years. So what can we expect in Chicago’s municipal elections? Hooligan Magazine founder Rivka Yeker and Chic…

Published on 3 years ago

Get in the Bavarian Spirit in Lincoln Square

We met up with Lincoln Square neighbor Gretchen Eng to discuss her favorite things to do, see, and eat in the North Side neighborhood.

Gretchen's Recs:

Spoon Thai

Cafe Selmarie

Luella’s Southern Kitchen

M…

Published on 3 years ago

What Does Chicago Taste Like? This Couple Finds Out

Dario Durham and Sara Faddah come from very different food traditions. Faddah is originally from Jordan, and cooks the Arab foods her grandmother made. Durham is a born and bred Chicagoan, and grew u…

Published on 3 years ago

Four Things That Could Make Chicago Safer for Cyclists

Across Chicago, cars have crashed into cyclists in the bike lane more than 400 times between 2020-22, according to an investigation by the Illinois Answers Project and Block Club Chicago. So what can…

Published on 3 years ago

How ‘South Side’ Creators Stay True to Chicago on TV

Season three of “South Side” premieres Thursday on HBOMax. The comedy follows various characters — from workers at a rent-to-own store to wannabe rappers to cops — as they make their hustle on Chicag…

Published on 3 years ago

Abortion Advocates Take Flight, Bye Bye Burke, and Deck the City Halls!

The filing deadline for the February municipal election was Monday. One name that won’t be on the ballot for the first time in over 50 years is Southwest Side 14th Ward Ald. Ed Burke. The indicted al…

Published on 3 years ago

What Makes Englewood So Good? We’ll Show You.

When City Cast Chicago first talked to Dion Dawson in 2021, he said, “Englewood was everything that I needed it to be.” Dawson is the founder of Dion’s Chicago Dream, which delivers free fresh produc…

Published on 3 years ago

Fashion is Ageist. This Chi Company is Trying to Help

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently boasted that Chicago is the 4th best city in the U.S. for startups. The Chicago Innovation Awards are one way companies get their ideas to the rest of the world.…

Published on 3 years ago

When Polish People Came to Chicago, They Came to Jackowo

Chicago once had the second highest population of Polish people in the world outside of Warsaw, and many called Jackowo, which is the Northwest Side neighborhood Avondale, home. Back in March, we tal…

Published on 3 years ago

How Charlie Trotter Made Chicago a Culinary Capital

Chef Charlie Trotter opened his eponymous restaurant in Lincoln Park in 1987, pushing Chicago to a new culinary level. Some of today’s best chefs trained under the groundbreaking — and mercurial — ch…

Published on 3 years ago