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When WBEZ’s podcast team isn’t making podcasts, they’re listening to them. Here are our favorites from 2019.

When WBEZ’s podcast team isn’t making podcasts, they’re listening to them. Here are our favorites from 2019.

Chicago’s Lunar New Year celebrations were marked by the mass shooting in California that left 10 dead and 10 others wounded. A downstate judge has allowed a temporary restraining order for roughly 800 Illinoisans to be exempt from the new assault weapons ban. Protesters were out Sunday for the…

More lawsuits are getting filed against Illinois’ new assault weapons ban. The cold, snowy weather is adding another challenge to Chicago’s unhoused population. There’s an effort underway to prevent people with delinquent property taxes from losing their homes through auction.

In the Southeast Asian community on Argyle Street in Uptown, Hac Tran says he’s seen nearly 10 businesses close due to rent increases, gentrification, pandemic complications and other issues. He sees the closures as a threat to the community’s identity, so he and a few business owners started…

Maybe you knew they were trouble when they walked in, and you’re looking for a place to shake it off… head to the pop-up Taylor Swift breakup bar. Mayoral candidates sparred in last night’s forum. A plan to move migrants into a vacant Kmart on Chicago’s Southwest Side is getting pushback.

You know Chicago is the country's rattiest city – at least according to Orkin, who just gave us that distinction for the ninth straight year – but did you also know it’s one of the feral-cattiest? Chicago has thousands of outdoor cats, as well as thousands of humans who care for them. “Probably…

Chicago has the title of the country’s “rattiest city.” But there’s also a bunch of feral cats out there combating the issue.

Cook County is considered a feral cat haven, in part because of an ordinance allowing people to care for them. But it’s not all whiskers and catnip.

Chicago is home to thousands of feral cats. But who’s looking after them?