WBEZ News

The latest news and featured stories from WBEZ Chicago.

WBEZ News is a news podcast hosted by WBEZ Chicago, with 1,000 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  As Trump pushes sweeping changes to mail voting, here’s where things stand in Illinois

  Aug 27, 20265 min

  With 10 weeks until the fall election, a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling on mail-in voting is drawing close scrutiny – and even alarm – from pro-democracy advocates.
 
 The high court’s conservative bloc is allowing President Trump to move forward with an executive order critics say is designed to choke off the popular form of voting.
 
 And Attorney General Kwame Raoul yesterday [Wednesday] joined a multi-state lawsuit to block a new postal service rule regarding mail-in ballots that arises from Trump’s executive order.
 
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  What to watch as new Chicago Public Schools year gets underway

  Aug 26, 20264 min

  Monday marked the start of classes for Chicago Public Schools.
 
 The day was filled with all the typical excitement and nerves you see on the first day.
 
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  More than two weeks have passed since a powerful storm ripped through Northwest Indiana.

  Aug 26, 20264 min

  More than two weeks have passed since a powerful storm ripped through Northwest Indiana. 
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  Illinois Democrats, Republicans seek political momentum at state fair

  Aug 21, 20264 min

  Besides deep-fried Oreos, Cheetos-covered corndogs, and pork belly and fries in a cone, the Illinois State Fair offered a heaping serving of politics this week.
 
 Democrats looked to re-elect Governor J-B Pritzker, replace retiring U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, and weather a sexual harassment scandal confronting House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch.
 
 And Republicans tried to exploit Welch’s crisis, blame Pritzker for rising household costs and overcome a possible Democratic wave across the country this fall. 
 
 Here to break it all down for us is WBEZ’s state politics correspondent Mawa Iqbal.
 
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  After their father’s deportation, a Chicago-area family finds itself in survival mode

  Aug 20, 20267 min

  The Amin family is trying to find a way to bring their dad back to the US from Pakistan. After three decades in the US, while he was working to legalize his status, he was picked up during Midway Blitz, detained 3 months and then deported. And the family is trying to figure out how to save the family sandwich their father ran. He called it his sixth child. His son is running things at the moment but is supposed to go back to college in the fall. The story focused on the son. When they talk to the dad in Pakistan, he doesn't even ask about the shop. It's too painful. 
 
 WBEZ’s Esther Yoon-Ji Kang first met the Amin family that month. 
 
 So much has changed in the past year without their patriarch. Here’s their story. 
 
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