Podcast appearances and mentions of linda lutton

WBEZ reporter Linda Lutton--one of Chicago's great reporters--will be taking a year off. She stopped by to talk about some of her favorite stories. Or, at least, some of Ben's favorite Linda Lutton stories. Including her masterpiece about the "vandals" who put an extra s on the signs, thus turning Douglas into Douglass Park. Classic Chicago stories.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

There are currently no grocery stores operating in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. An Aldi that operated there for three decades suddenly boarded up their doors in October, and now the Save-A-Lot is temporarily closed after failing a health inspection. Losing a grocery store has big consequences for people living in the neighborhood. It means longer commutes, higher prices, and losing access to healthy foods. It means a community where the average life expectancy is 16 years lower than that of neighboring white, affluent communities is left even more vulnerable to malnutrition and illness. The city could step in to buy the vacant property and facilitate a new grocer coming into the neighborhood. Community members are demanding that whoever moves in be held accountable to its neighbors. WBEZ's Linda Lutton and Director of the Garfield Park Rite to Wellness Collaborative TJ Crawford join host Jacoby Cochran to discuss what's next for West Garfield Park. Follow us on Twitter: @CityCastChicago Sign up for our newsletter: chicago.citycast.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last year the Garfield Park Aldi closed after 30 years, leaving thousands of West Siders without a nearby grocery store where they can buy affordable, fresh produce or other staples. Now, the City of Chicago is considering purchasing the Aldi property to ensure it remains a grocery store. WBEZ reporter Linda Lutton and Curious City intern Asia Singleton head to the West Side neighborhood to find how the store's closing is impacting residents — and what they're doing about it.

From May 2019. WBEZ Reporter Linda Lutton has a new beat...Chicago Neighborhoods! Hear about her journey to WBEZ, her history with Ben Joravsky and her latest work on South Side neighborhoods.

Chicago activists are calling on Chase Bank to make reparations to black neighborhoods following a WBEZ and City Bureau report on racial disparities in home lending. Reset checks in with WBEZ’s Linda Lutton and organizer Ja’Mal Green for more on the push for reparations ahead of Juneteenth. Host: Justin Kaufmann Producer: Nereida Moreno

The death Tuesday of Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago journalist Lois Wille—a veteran of the Tribune, the Sun-Times and the Daily News—brings to mind a memorable 1997 interview with her and journalist Linda Lutton. You can hear them debate urban housing trends that were remaking Chicago then and, more than two decades later, are shaping it still. Here's how it sounded—as aired June 22, 1997, on WNUA-FM, Chicago. More conversations with thought-leaders through the years on this website, in Apple Music, on Spotify, via your favorite podcast player, and at Chicago Public Square. (1984 image of Wille: C-SPAN.)

Daily Line managing editor Heather Cherone, WBEZ reporter Linda Lutton, and Danny Ecker from Crain’s Chicago Business are the 3 journalists joining us to talk about the biggest news stories of the week in Chicago. We’ll cover the Lincoln Yards development, the mayor’s race, Gov. Pritzker’s newly-unveiled tax plan, and more.

There are hundreds of neighborhoods in the city of Chicago and 15 candidates vying to represent all of them. Many communities have been left behind in the city's economic growth and dozens of prominent neighborhood activist groups want that to end. This week, many of those organizations are pushing the candidates to break from the horse race and the mudslinging to talk about the issues most important to their communities. Learn about some of the top issues facing Chicagoans at the street-level. Reporting by Linda Lutton and Becky Vevea. Editing by Alex Keefe and Cate Cahan. Production by Becky Vevea and Justin Bull.  Each week at On Background, WBEZ’s team of political reporters brings you the backstory on the week's big story. Host Becky Vevea and guests take you inside the back rooms of Chicago and Illinois government to better understand the people, places and forces shaping today’s politics.

Whether you’re a longform documentary maker, or reporting a short news spot, you need to have a deep understanding of the people and places you’re covering. WBEZ reporter Linda Lutton and Snap Judgment producer Adizah Eghan both believe in telling deeper stories through staying in one place. But it’s not easy. At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, we brought together Adizah and Linda to discuss the peaks and pitfalls they’ve encountered when reporting stories that unfold in real time over months. This session includes practical tips on finding characters, identifying storylines, wrestling with hours of tape, and handling fatigue. For a full list of resources mentioned in this session, along with a transcript provided by Descript, visit ThirdCoastFestival.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the time it has taken for a child to grow up in Chicago, city leaders have either closed or re-staffed some 200 public schools — nearly a third of the entire district. A new WBEZ investigation looks at the 70,000 children - 90 percent of them black - affected by the tactic of closing and opening schools as a way to improve education. On this episode of On Background, we get the backstory of how a generation of school closings has changed Chicago politics. Reporting for this episode comes from Adriana Cardona-Maguigad, Sarah Karp, Linda Lutton, Kate McGee, and Becky Vevea. Editing by Kate Grossman and Al Keefe. Production by Justin Bull.

This fall, as students head back to school, millions in taxpayer dollars are being diverted to private schools for the first time ever in Illinois. Last summer, Illinois lawmakers ended a years-long budget impasse after being faced with the daunting prospect that public schools across the state might not open. They passed a sweeping overhaul of public school funding after years of debating the issue. But at the eleventh hour, they also added a massive school choice program with virtually no debate or public vetting. WBEZ’s Linda Lutton explains how this happened and what we know so far.

In 2014, WBEZ Chicago reporter Linda Lutton followed a class of fourth-graders at William Penn Elementary School on Chicago’s West Side. She wanted to explore a big idea that’s at the heart of the American dream: Can public schools be the great equalizer in society, giving everyone a chance to succeed, no matter where they come from or how much money their families have? Lutton told the story in a Peabody Award-nominated show, “The View from Room 205.” This week, Reveal presents a condensed version of that documentary. Don’t miss the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.

In 2014, WBEZ Chicago reporter Linda Lutton followed a class of fourth-graders at William Penn Elementary School on Chicago’s West Side. She wanted to explore a big idea that’s at the heart of the American dream: Can public schools be the great equalizer in society, giving everyone a chance to succeed, no matter where they come from or how much money their families have? Lutton told the story in a Peabody Award-nominated show, “The View from Room 205.” This week, Reveal presents a condensed version of that documentary. Don’t miss the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.

Upon discovering a pattern of students skipping swim class in the CPS system, WBEZ’s Linda Lutton attempts to follows the trail of sick notes and track down their progenitor: one elusive and enigmatic Dr. Fong. This episode of WBEZ Presents is a special rebroadcast of a December 2015 story.

A live recording of Third Coast's recent listening event with WBEZ Education reporter Linda Lutton. Linda's reporting laid the foundation for This American Life's award-winning series on Chicago's Harper High School. She spoke with Re:sound host Gwen Macsai and shared some of her favourite stories and inspirations. Teens Share Their Secrets by Hearing Voices and Curie Youth Radio, 2008 Teenagers wish they could tell their parents a lot of things. These kids in Chicago and reveal their secrets in a rather public venue. Gone [Excerpt] by Linda Lutton (WBEZ, 2008) About 12,000 students drop out of Chicago Public Schools each year despite efforts by administrators and teachers to keep them on track. At Robeson High School on Chicago’s south side, even an ambitious program couldn’t stop students from slipping away. Reporter Linda Lutton tracked down a few absent Robeson students and discovered that they’d left school for very different reasons. To hear the full story: http://bit.ly/1muDqs4 A... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Reporter Linda Lutton has spent a great deal of time with one remarkable high school principle as she deals with incredible obstacles.