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Connie Wilson host of her own series at WeeklyWilson.com has contributed for distribution to Chicago Broadcasting Network this podcast interview with Linda Gartz, author of Redlined A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960’s Chicago. As black folks move deeper into Chicago’s West …
A short video showing quiet scenes of the city. Nicely done.
This video documentary narrated by Gene Wilder still only scratches the surface of the over 100 miles of streets, paths, and aisles leading to the dizzying array of agriculture, art, music, consumer goods and modern inventions that made up Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893.
It’s well worth watching if you want a glimpse of a period in time when Chicago was literally the center of the world full of goodwill with prospects of building a lasting peace through industry and trade.
The fair was also referred to as the “White City” because all of the buildings were covered in plaster made to look like marble. It took place on the southside in the area now known as Jackson Park near the Museum of Science and Industry and the University of Chicago.
I watched this documentary on my TV via Roku using the free Tubi app and you can watch it here on your computer (how cool is that!) but I am sure you can find it available through other digital or online sources as well or by ordering the DVD. Just search “EXPO – Magic of the White City.”
This podcast review features Julie Lovison of the Lake Shore Music Studio playing “The Song of the Ferris Wheel” published in 1893 by The Chicago Music Company.
You can find the sheet music with lyrics here at the Library of Congress website.
North Side home market reviving — Unity Church Building Scheduled for Demolition — Many restaurants will not reopen after quarantine — Most violent day in 60 years — Uptown Theater plans in jeopardy — Local live theater continues to struggle — Chicago Billionaire Buys $100 million dollar painting — Innovative affordable housing — Permit parking enforcement begins again — Racial Insensitivity Affects the Arts — and more.
Chicago Broadcasting Network provides summaries of Chicago neighborhood news stories that have appeared in the Inside-Booster, News –Star, and the Skyline. This is the July 2020 episode.
“Don’t Spread It Around” is a parody on the iconic tune “Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)” and is my humble attempt to encourage my fellow Chicagoans to abide by the stay-inside mandate ordered by the Chicago City government to encourage the practice social distancing during …
The last weekend in May was uplifted by peaceful protests and marred by excessive violence and destruction in response to the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after being pinned to the ground for nearly nine minutes with a white police officer’s knee on his neck.
Some headlines:
Rioters take their fight to the North Side
A Cop is injured when suspected looters strike with a U-Haul truck in River North
A woman scrawls graffiti on the Walmart at Broadway and Diversey and a Target store also closed after a looter gained access to the store.
Loneliness may be a health risk
Exodus underway at some downtown skyscrapers
Budtenders plan to unionize
Woman carjacked in Streeterville
Seven year old raises money for Children’s Hospital
Steve is a Chicago native currently living in L.A. and is the composer of our theme song Foster Avenue Beach. You can leave a song request and or comment by text or short voice message at the following number ONLY during the live show please. …
Monthly Chicago neighborhood podcast news summaries are edited and produced by Chicago Broadcasting Network featuring stories we feel will be of interest to our listeners. The idea is to give you a quick overview of things happening in your community that you should be aware …
For over a century the Inside Publications newspapers have made a difference on the North Side of Chicago by making Chicagoans aware of issues that impact their neighborhoods.
Until now we have declared Chicago Broadcasting Network a “news-free” zone because we felt that there are others in a better position to provide quality news on a consistent basis.
We are pleased to announce an alliance with Inside Publications whereby we will provide a short monthly podcast with summaries of articles that have appeared in their three local newspapers, the Inside-Booster, News-Star, and the Skyline distributed throughout Chicago Lakefront including Andersonville, Edgewater, Gold Coast, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Lincoln Square, North Center, Old Town, Rogers Park, Streeterville, Uptown, The Loop and Near North communities.
The news summaries are edited and produced by Chicago Broadcasting Network featuring stories we feel will be of interest to our podcast listeners. The idea is to give you a quick overview of things happening in your community that you should be aware of and that you might want to learn more about. Your feedback will be vital to improving this process.
Listeners can enjoy the complete stories presented by picking up any of the Inside Publications offered for free at various locations around the city or at InsideOnline.com where you can currently subscribe to a full year online subscription for only twenty dollars.
This first episode is the April edition with a summary of stories appearing in March that include the following headlines and more.
Is City Hall suffering from Reefer Madness?
Police warn seniors about scam contractors.
North Side apartment building values are on the rise
Porchlight Music Theater celebrates 25th anniversary
Folk Legend John Prine lost to Covid-19
Horse-Drawn Carriages leave Mag Mile
And an Armed man robs three 7-Eleven stores in less than 90 minutes
Let us know what you think.
******************** Read about how this play and others around the city have been forced to close as a result of the Corona virus. https://news.wttw.com/2020/03/18/how-chicagos-storefront-theaters-are-facing-coronavirus-crisis ************************* “Mlima’s Tale” presented by the Griffin Theatre Company at the Raven Theater, 6157 N. Clark St. in Chicago, is a …
Author Steve Bellinger talks about his time-travel sci-fi novel “The Chronocar” set in the Chicago southside Bronzeville neighborhood and the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology, the author’s alma mater. Listen to the podcast above or watch the video recorded version below. This selection of …
Those of us coming of age in the late sixties did perhaps believe it was “the dawning of the Age of Aquarius” and indeed hoped that “peace would guide the planets and love would steer the stars.”
Chicago experienced a violent protest at the Democratic National Convention. The Johnson presidency was collapsing and the bloody Vietnam War was playing out “in living color” on the nightly news including the pivotal Tet Offensive in late January 1968 that began to change public opinion.
A hopeful ray of sunshine was the beginning of “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” a popular television counter-culture variety show and the Chicago debut of “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical – HAIR.”
To kick off the 2020 New Year I stopped at the Chicago Public Library Budlong Woods Branch and checked out Mark Kurlansky’s book “1968 The Year that Rocked the World.” This is not just his opinion, The History Channel website says, “The year 1968 remains one of the most tumultuous single years in history” while the Smithsonian calls 1968, “The year that shattered America.”
“1968 The Year that Rocked the World” by Mark Kurlansky is A Ballantine Book published by Random House Publishing Group.
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