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Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices — July 11, 2024 Full Episode
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- Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices — July 11, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:02
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Thousands of teenagers and young adults call Chicago their home. But not all of the area’s youth get an equal opportunity to explore the heart of the city.
A proposed ordinance would expand a pilot program around the area of the 606 Trail that has successfully helped stabilize that neighborhood after it began to experience rapid gentrification.
Viva Los Libros just launched a bookmobile. Owners Nina Sanchez and Michael Wren, along with their daughter Vida, are eager to share their love of reading with the community.
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- Chicago Tonight: Black Voices — July 10, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Black people in Illinois are incarcerated at a rate 7.5 times higher than their White counterparts, according to a study by the Prison Policy Initiative.
The commission is tasked with researching and reporting on possible reparatory actions for Black residents who are descendants of slavery.
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- July 9, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The Chicago Police Department’s most recent investigation into several police officers with documented ties to far-right extremist groups was “materially deficient,” according to a new report from Inspector General Deborah Witzburg.
It was standing room only at the first public hearing about dramatically changing how transit works in Chicago. Meanwhile, the Chicago Police Department is coming under criticism from the city's inspector general. And Illinois Republicans will soon have a new party leader.
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- July 8, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- For the second year, Chicago played host to a weekend of NASCAR racing. Some local advocates say the street race event has an overall negative impact on the city.
After months of negotiation with state and federal officials, Illinois has agreed to a project that aims to stop invasive carp from making their way into the Great Lakes.
Mayor Brandon Johnson promised “consequences” for those participating in gun violence in Chicago following a holiday weekend in which more than 100 people were shot and 19 were killed across the city.
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- Week in Review: Biden's Campaign; Public Transit Hearings
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Biden says he’s not going anywhere amid calls for him to step aside. The Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity. And hearings are set for plans to merge the CTA, Metra and Pace.
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- July 2024 Birthdays — WTTW Kids Club
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Wishing a happy, happy birthday to these kids in the WTTW Kids Club!
The WTTW Kids Club is a very special level of membership. With each Kids Club membership, you can enroll a child to receive a Kids Club Birthday Card from their favorite WTTW Kids character, an On-Air Birthday Greeting, a Kids Club thank you gift, a WTTW Kids Club Card which includes 2-for-1 entrance to children’s museums in the Chicago area and discounts at popular children’s stores, invitations to special events just for kids and families, and more!
Learn more at https://www.wttw.com/kidsclub
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- Chicago Tonight: Black Voices — July 3, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Amid political instability and gang violence, more than 300,000 Haitians have been displaced in the last year.
Residents saw steep increases to their bills — some soaring at least 30% — when property reassessments shifted more of the tax burden away from commercial properties.
The Bronzeville Community Microgrid is a collaboration between the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Chicago Housing Authority and ComEd. It's charting a path to the future by taking an old idea and updating it for the 21st century.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other Democratic governors traveled to the White House to meet with President Joe Biden. It comes amid growing calls for Biden to step aside following last week’s shaky debate performance,
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- July 2, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Former President Donald Trump's sentencing over hush money payments is on hold for another two months — after the U.S. Supreme Court rules presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.
The U.S. Supreme Court passes on hearing the case against Illinois' assault weapons ban — for now. Chicago's growing pension debt. And Independence Day drivers beware: A bump in the gas tax is here.
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- July 1, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that people sleeping in public areas can be fined or arrested. Advocates hope the effect will be muted in Chicago and Illinois.
A 25-car freight train carrying various substances derailed in south suburban Matteson, forcing 300 residents from their homes.
The legacy of beloved piping plovers Monty and Rose lives on at Montrose Beach as their son is now a father himself.
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- Week in Review: Presidential Debate; Burke Sentenced
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- President Joe Biden tries to shore up support after a shaky debate. CPD’s mass arrest policy for DNC protests raises alarms. And former Ald. Ed Burke is sentenced to just two years on corruption charges.
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- Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices — June 27, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- What to expect in the showdown between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
The Olmec people once lived along the southeast border of Mexico in what is now Veracruz. They are considered one of the most influential civilizations of Mesoamerica.
For many of us, the journey to understanding our identity can be complex. In "Rabbit on the Moon: Embracing My Mexican-American Identity," Elizabeth Alvarez describes dedicating her life to teaching and to empowering students.
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- Chicago Tonight: Black Voices — June 26, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A man who recently graduated from a college program in prison died at the age of 51. His death has advocates asking questions about the conditions at Stateville.
Eight-time marathoner Martinus Evans says he didn’t always feel welcomed in the sport. He is now working to make people feel comfortable running — no matter how slow they may be.
Mental health advocates have long called for Chicago to reestablish the 19 city-operated mental health clinics. Mayor Brandon Johnson is making moves toward the promise and has reopened the Roseland Health Clinic.
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- June 25, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- CTU President Stacy Davis Gates on her union's negotiations with Chicago Public Schools and how those demands fit with an impending budget deficit.
There is a movement within country music of queer artists making inroads in the genre that his big roots in Chicago.
Every four years, residents of Chicago’s 50 wards pick their representative on the City Council. They are officially known as alderpeople. But what exactly do they do?
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- June 24, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Former Ald. Ed Burke was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison and fined $2 million, a lighter than expected punishment for the man a jury found ran City Hall like a mafia don for decades, shaking down those who needed or desired an official action from their elected leaders.
Abortion providers across Illinois say they are navigating the influx of out-of-state patients two years after the U.S. Supreme Court reverses the Roe v. Wade decision.
The stories of five asylum-seekers who arrived in Chicago from Latin America are told in a new documentary series from WTTW. “Firsthand: Homeless – The Migrant Experience” profiles five people who left their home countries and traveled across continents to begin a new life.
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- VOICES: A WTTW News Community Conversation - June 24 2024
- Runtime
- 48:03
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- On Monday, June 24, 2024, WTTW, hosted VOICES: A WTTW News Community Conversation. This special VOICES Conversation is part of WTTW News and Chicago Tonight’s A Safer City initiative, which takes a deep dive into neighborhood crime, violence, and public safety as residents, policymakers, and community groups work to address this pervasive issue. For dedicated coverage, watch Chicago Tonight and find ongoing and extensive data and investigative reporting on the WTTW News website.
Chicago Tonight reporter and Latino Voices host, Joanna Hernandez moderated a live virtual conversation featuring Kenya Elan, Queer Comedian, and live performance producer ; Shomari Daniels aka Zeetus Lapetus, Intergalactic Funk DJ and Booking Agent; Graphic Artist and DJ, All the Way Kay J, and Akaelah Flotho, of the Lavendar Project, a Chicago based grassroots archiving project recording the rich tapestry of Black Queer histories. The panel discussed how art has been an integral part of LGBTQ...
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- Week in Review: Illinois GOP Chair Quits, Chicago Reparations Task Force
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Mayor Brandon Johnson apologizes to Chicago’s Black residents and creates a task force to get the ball rolling on reparations. President Joe Biden moves to protect “dreamers” and long-time undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens. And Illinois GOP Chair Don Tracy quits just weeks before the Republican National Convention.
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- Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices — June 20, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- For workers in warehouses, kitchens or the outdoors, their environment can be made worse by summer heat waves. Advocates say more regulations are needed to protect those workers.
Some advocates are calling recent action by President Joe Biden the most expansive federal protection for immigrants in over a decade.
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- Chicago Mysteries with Geoffrey Baer — Full Show
- Runtime
- 57:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Did a UFO fly over O’Hare Airport? How did the alligator later named “Chance the Snapper” suddenly appear in Chicago’s Humboldt Lagoon? Is Hull House haunted? Why don’t Chicagoans put ketchup on their hot dogs? WTTW award-winning host/writer/producer Geoffrey Baer sets out to solve these and other puzzlers in CHICAGO MYSTERIES.
Join Geoffrey Baer in solving more mysteries at https://www.wttw.com/mysteries
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- Chicago Tonight: Black Voices — June 19, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Micah Johnson, an artist and former White Sox second baseman, helped a group of young people design a T-shirt celebrating Juneteenth.
“The Color of Wealth in Chicago,” a new study released Monday, reveals drastic economic inequities between White communities and those of color. The report examines the assets and debts of Chicago’s Black, White, Puerto Rican and U.S. and foreign-born Mexican residents, and was conducted by the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School between 2022 and 2023.
Chicago officials are set to once again tackle the thorny issue of reparations, as a new task force formed by Mayor Brandon Johnson launches an effort to determine whether and how the city should pay reparations to Chicagoans who are the descendants of enslaved African Americans.
The DuSable Museum hosted numerous celebrations and events to mark Juneteenth, a federal holiday recognizing the day the last enslaved Black people in the ...
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- Firsthand: Homeless – The Migrant Experience – Trailer
- Runtime
- 0:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- In Firsthand: Homeless – The Migrant Experience, WTTW explores the complicated reality asylum-seekers face when they arrive in Chicago. Explore the series: wttw.com/firsthand
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- June 18, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Illinois officials plan to close Stateville Correctional Center and Logan Correctional Center and ultimately rebuild them. A planned vote by a bipartisan advisory panel did not take place last week because not enough legislators showed up.
Chicago City Council members are pushing for new campaign ethics rules. The race for an elected Board of Education begins in earnest. And federal changes to immigration policy.
What could be more classic Americana than Route 66? It’s one of the country’s original highways, starting in Illinois and running through the Midwest, Southwest, and into California. But Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Edward Keating didn’t take such a rosy view of the roadway.
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- June 17, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The leader of CPS on the district’s latest accomplishments and challenges. What’s behind an increase in animal euthanasia rates in Chicago. And looking at the city’s lofty place in the history of the skyscraper.
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- Week in Review: $50M Misconduct Settlement; Riot Fest Leaves Chicago
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Migrants with schoolchildren losing shelter. Massive data breach at Cook County Health. And Chicago pays its largest-ever police misconduct settlement.
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- Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices — June 13, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Mexico elected its first-ever woman president — how some Chicagoans helped make that possible. And a new photo exhibit captures a past life in Pilsen.
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- Chicago Tonight: Black Voices — June 12, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The mayor reacts to one of Chicago’s largest police misconduct settlements. And one on one with Carol Moseley Braun, the first Black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate.
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- June 11, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Prosecutors push for prison time for Chicago’s longest-serving alderperson. One on one with the founder of the animal rights group PETA. And cruising the Chicago River on a kayak conservation tour.
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- June 10, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A controversial push to make Chicago’s downtown curfew for teens even earlier. How updating identifying documents could become easier for transgender people. And a look at Illinois’ gun laws in our latest installment of WTTW News Explains.
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- Week in Review: Police Prep for DNC; Migrants in Chicago
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Chicago police learn new tactics to handle mass protests ahead of the DNC. And could the president’s new border policy mitigate migrants coming to the city?
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- Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices — June 6, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Officials say more than half of the migrants forced to leave city shelters immediately returned. How Latino communities are celebrating Pride. And meet the first Mexican-born woman to travel to space.
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- Chicago Tonight: Black Voices — June 5, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Evanston’s groundbreaking reparations program is facing a legal challenge. And Major League Baseball makes a historic move by adding Negro Leagues stats to its records.
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- June 4, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- CPD’s plans to handle mass protests ahead of the DNC. How will Chicago spend the millions in remaining COVID-19 relief dollars? And an uncommon path to law school.
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- Meet Jingmai O’Connor, the Punk Rock Paleontologist Who Leads the Field Museum’s Archaeopteryx Team
- Runtime
- 25:39
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Dead Bird Nerd alert! WTTW News sat down with paleornithologist Jingmai O’Connor and talked about dinosaurs, birds, the Chicago Archaeopteryx, evolution and why studying fossil birds is more important now than ever.
O’Connor is associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History.
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- Where in the World is Archaeopteryx?
- Runtime
- 2:21
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Only 13 specimens of Archaeopteryx — and one special feather — are known to exist since the first Archaeopteryx fossils were discovered in 1860. Almost all come from the same deposit of Solnhofen Limestone in Bavaria, Germany — rock that began to form when the region was covered by a shallow prehistoric sea. Most of the specimens are housed in German institutions, some are in the hands of private collectors, and one has gone missing.
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- June 3, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- One-on-one with Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch. And upcoming deregulation for locksmiths has some consumer advocates worried.
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- Week in Review: Trump Verdict; Illinois Budget Passes
- Runtime
- 27:24
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A New York jury finds Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts. What’s in the state’s biggest-ever budget. And is Chicago ready for this summer’s DNC?
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- Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices — May 30, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A historic Little Village Theater gets landmark status. A child tax credit passes as part of Illinois’ new budget. And meet a group of Latinos embracing the entrepreneurial spirit.
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- Chicago Tonight: Black Voices — May 29, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Residents push back on a proposed trucking hub in North Lawndale. A landmark study seeks to know more about cancer risks and outcomes in Black women. And remembering the founder of a pioneering Chicago theater company.
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- May 28, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- What the state’s $53 billion budget plan could mean for taxpayers. A push to establish a statewide public defender system. And the cicada invasion is here — what to know about our new neighbors.
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- Week in Review: ShotSpotter Vote; Wrapping Up in Springfield
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Chicago City Council bucks the mayor and votes to keep ShotSpotter. And it’s a wrap — almost — on the legislative session in Springfield.
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- Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices — May 23, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- School funding and a crackdown on THC — the latest from Springfield. A Little Village theater gets landmark status. And we hear stories from Latinos who served in the military.
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- Chicago Tonight: Black Voices — May 22, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Chicago City Council backs a plan to keep ShotSpotter. And Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s new plan for gun and drug charges tied to traffic stops.
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- May 21, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Reaction to dramatic changes in how Chicago will fund its public schools going forward. And our Spotlight Politics team on the looming deadline to pass a state budget.
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- May 20, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Law enforcement is sounding the alarm on guns that are still in the hand of residents who shouldn’t legally have them. A City Council battle around ShotSpotter. And the cicadas are finally here — what you need to know.
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- Week in Review: Johnson's 1st Year; CTU in Springfield
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- One year into Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration. Campus encampment cleared at DePaul. And will Springfield help Chicago Public Schools close its deficit?
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- Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices — May 16, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- What’s behind the city’s joblessness rates among Black and Latino youth. Meet the powerful women of an ancient Mexican civilization. And Sueños Music Festival returns.
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- Chicago Tonight: Black Voices — May 15, 2024 Full Episode
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Takeaways from Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first year in office. Three Chicago journalists win Pulitzer Prizes. And after 25 years in prison, one man says he’s still fighting to prove his innocence.
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- May 14, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- What’s behind the mass felling of trees at a suburban forest preserve. And eyes are on the Chicago Sky as the WNBA regular season tips off.
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- May 13, 2024 Full Episode — Chicago Tonight
- Runtime
- 27:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A controversial migrant shelter closes on the South Side. The invasion of cicadas is coming soon. And world-renowned opera star Renée Fleming.
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- Week in Review: Future of Public Transit; Student Encampments
- Runtime
- 27:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Advocates are upset that new leaders of public transit agencies don’t regularly ride the CTA. And what came of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s trip to the state Capitol.
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- Why Are There So Many Cicadas in Illinois in 2024? | WTTW News Explains
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- A 13-year brood (Brood XIX) in southern Illinois and a 17-year brood (Brood XIII) in northern Illinois will make their first joint appearance in more than 200 years. The last time this happened, Illinois wasn’t even a state! WTTW News explains.
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