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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 16, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for WBEZ Chicago
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 8, 2026
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How Ella Jenkins’ Chicago childhood shaped her iconic children’s music (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: This story first published on February 11, 2026, From school assemblies to “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood,” Ella Jenkins was a rhythm specialist and children’s music pioneer. Her childhood in Chicago was her launching pad. Jenkins forged a path in the music industry during a time when children’s musicians didn’t really exist. She persevered through the civil rights era, took ownership of her music in an industry that often took advantage of women and made the focus about children. Profe
Why one Chicago motel encouraged guests to smash stuff in the 1960s (opens the original)
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Brandee Neal holds a baseball bat at the Angry Cactus Lounge on Chicago’s North Side. She’s facing down an array of old consumer electronics inside one of its four concrete-walled “rage rooms.” Neal wears protective gear, including a face shield and an apron, while her friend records a video. Then she starts whaling on an old computer monitor and does not stop for half a minute. “It was an outlet that I didn’t know I needed,” Neal says afterward. The experience is equal parts therapy and enterta
NBA fines Clippers and Kawhi Leonard, suspends owner Steve Ballmer one year in cap circumvention case (opens the original)
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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer was suspended for one year by the NBA, and the team was ordered to forfeit five first-round draft picks and pay a $30 million fine Wednesday for violating salary cap circumvention rules in a case involving Kawhi Leonard. Also, president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank has been banned for six months and team president of business operations Gillian Zucker was suspended for one year. Leonard was hit with a $700,000 penalty. The league
School lunch used to ace the test (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: This story first published on August 13, 2025. Curious City listener Ray Salazar fondly remembers the lunches he got at school in the 1980s, especially the “stick-to-your-ribs” chop suey and turkey a la King followed by a warm piece of chocolate cake. This wasn’t at a private school — this was Hubbard High School, a public school in Chicago’s West Lawn neighborhood. Now, as a CPS high school teacher, Salazar shudders at what he sees on his students’ trays today. “It seems like it’
Meet the lobster-like crustaceans invading the Chicago River (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: This story first published in 2023. If you’ve ever kayaked down the Chicago River or relaxed along any of the waterways in the area, you may have encountered all sorts of creatures — an enormous snapping turtle, a stray alligator or maybe something that looks a lot like a lobster. A lobster living in Chicago water would be impossible. After all, they thrive in salt water and would not be able to survive in fresh water. But a Curious City listener swears she’s seen something lobste
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