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Posh senior residence raises over two hundred thousand dollars to provide staff bonuses - - Stranger stabs man on street, says “Welcome to Uptown!” - - Lincoln Park High School reinstating two of three coaches - - Fate of local music venues is dire - - City brings contact tracing jobs to North Side - - Edgewater man found dead in refrigerator - - Get off the bus and get on a bike - - Battle rages over “Boystown” name - -Feds reviewing local gun cases for “Operation Legend” - - Chicago’s home-sharing regulations may help prevent party problems ... We are pleased to continue our alliance with Inside Publications to provide summaries of news from their three Chicago Lakefront newspapers, including the Inside-Booster, News –Star, and the Skyline. This is the August 2020 podcast summary edition.

Connie Wilson interviews Chicago author Linda Gartz about her book "Redlined," a riveting story of a community fractured by racial turmoil, an unraveling and conflicted marriage, a daughter’s fight for sexual independence, and an up-close, intimate view of the social upheavals on Chicago's West Side in the culturally turbulent 1960's.

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. 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.

Consider what Chicago looked like in the 1890’s. Across from what is now Millennium Park on land provided by Civil War Veterans is what used to be Chicago’s Main Public Library featuring a famed $35 million Tiffany Dome.

Summary of Chicago neighborhood news gleaned from Inside Publication. June edition.

Podcast review of 2019 documentary film by Josh da Silva about Chicago northside neighborhood teens using Improv to enhance communication skills and explore racism as well as other topics that impact their lives.

This is a summary of the news for the beginning of May 2020. Chicago Broadcasting Network in alliance with Inside Publications is providing summaries of news articles that have appeared in the Inside-Booster, News –Star, and the Skyline. For over a century Inside Publications newspapers has made a difference by making Chicagoans aware of issues that impact their neighborhoods.

This is a review of a documentary video about the World's Columbian Expostion a/k/a The White City, held in Chicago 1893.

Chicago Broadcasting Network in alliance with Inside Publications will provide summaries of articles that have appeared in the Inside-Booster, News –Star, and the Skyline. For over a century Inside Publications newspapers have made a difference by making Chicagoans aware of issues that impact their neighborhoods. This is a summary of the news for the beginning of April 2020.

“Don’t Spread It Around” is based 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 this COVID-19 (Corona Virus) outbreak. Also some musing about why Chicago is a "toddling town" and more info about the original tune.

Up until now her mother’s profession has been a mystery to Vivie Warren who has spent most of her life in boarding schools and in the country home of friends having little personal contact with the woman who provides her financial support.

Julia is a Chicago teenager and aspiring writer struggling to come to terms with the sudden death of her only sister. Now that she is dead, Julia realizes she did not really know her sister and sets out to understand her better. Through her investigations she uncovers some of Olga’s “imperfections.” At Steppenwolf Chicago.

“Mlima’s Tale” presented by Griffin Theatre Company at the Raven Theater, Chicago is a powerful, sensitive, heartrending depiction of greed and corruption associated with the illegal sale of elephant ivory, which results in the slaughter of approximately 100 of the endangered animals every day.

This regionally inspired musical by Christine Rea and Rick Briskin will have its world premiere March 18, 2020 at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago featuring Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young. Podcast includes comments from the creative team and a sneak preview of one musical number.

John Denver’s music was considered to be more-or-less middle-of-the-road if not downright conservative in the wake of rising stars like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. This issue is confronted early in this latest jukebox boomer music revival “Almost Heaven- John Denver’s America” at The Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana (only 35 minutes from downtown Chicago). The popular singer songwriter eventually emerged as the nascent voice of the environmental movement with songs like “Calypso” as well as “Rocky Mountain High,” “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” “Wild Montana Skies” and “Sunshine on My Shoulders” that unabashedly and exuberantly celebrated the magnificence and simple beauty of nature.