Monthly Archives: November 2017
CN November 16 2017
Mayor Harold Washington died in office thirty years ago this Thanksgiving. It was November 25, 1987, and for those of us who knew him in some way we’ll always associate the day before Thanksgiving with his sudden death while … Continue reading
CN Nov 9 2017 Bettina Chang and Darryl Holliday
Rest in peace, DNAInfo Chicago. Chicago without the late, great DNAinfo just doesn’t seem the same. They enterprised unexpected neighborhood stories that nobody else in this town was covering. They reported on fun happenings like bar and restaurant openings. And let’s not … Continue reading
CN Nov 9 2017 Jeremy Gorner
The City of Chicago and the University of Chicago recently released their Gun Trace report, an exhaustive study of about 21,000 guns the Chicago Police confiscated from our streets in hotel past three years. They were able to trace about … Continue reading
CN November 2 2017
Jessica Droeger and Jeff Radue join us this week. They’re both organizers with Indivisible Chicago, a group that was formed as part of the national mobilization against the Trump presidency. We discuss a wide range of issues, but our main … Continue reading
CN October 26 2017
Today on Chicago Newsroom Guest Host Kitty Kurth is joined by two guests who know an awful lot about gun violence and present some interesting and innovative ways to address the scourge that it has become. Kathleen Sances from … Continue reading
CN October 19 2017
Kitty Kurth hosts Chicago Newsroom this week. Kitty talks current affairs with two of her all-time favorite pundits. Guests Sylvia Ewing and Joanna Klonsky cover a wide range of topics from what they provocatively describe as a “non-old white guy … Continue reading