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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive with guest host Turi Ryder, December 24, 2025
On today's show Turi Ryder fills in for Joan and her guests are
– Jane Banser, founder at The Etiquette School of Chicago
– Sabrina Shapiro, mental per…
4 months ago
Joan Esposito: Live Local & Progressive with guest host Jill Wine-Banks, December 23, 2025
On today's show Jill Wine-Banks fills in for Joan and her guests are
– Civia Tamarkin, award-winning investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker a…
4 months ago
Joan Esposito: Live Local & Progressive with guest host William Muck, December 22, 2025
On today's show William Muck fills in for Joan and his guests are
– Michael Scherer, staff writer at The Atlantic; his latest piece is “Why Is Robert …
4 months ago
Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 19, 2025
On today's show:
– Chris Fitzsimon, host of the Stories from the States podcast
– “Out Chicago” host Scott Duff and film critic Rebecca Ford
Catch "Joa…
4 months, 1 week ago
Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 18, 2025
On today's show:
– Eric Zorn, writer-publisher of The Picayune Sentinel
– Our Pet of the Month segment with Craig Botagowski of Mark Drugs and Darlene …
4 months, 1 week ago
Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 17, 2025
On today's show:
– Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL)
– George D. Strickland, recently retired Lake County associate judge for the Nineteenth Judicial Circui…
4 months, 1 week ago
Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 16, 2025
On today's show:
– Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, “The Time of Monsters”
– Nick Blumbe…
4 months, 1 week ago
Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 15, 2025
On today's show:
– Chris Bury, senior journalist-in-residence, DePaul University
– James Stroud, a statistician at FEMA currently on administrative lea…
4 months, 1 week ago
Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 12, 2025
On today's show
– Chris Fitzsimon, host of the Stories from the States podcast
– Adam Abrams, spokesperson for Keep Americans Covered, former communica…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 11, 2025
On today's show:
– Bruce Rheins, former CBS Los Angeles deputy bureau chief
– Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL)
– Abby Vesoulis, national politics reporter at Mo…
4 months, 2 weeks ago