WEIU-TV, a PBS affiliate at Eastern Illinois University shut down Friday due to the loss of federal funding for public media. As experts have noted, smaller rural TV and radio stations have suffered most, located where residents already have limited news sources. READ: https://loom.ly/aT-pX4w
Samantha Steele ran for reelection as a Cook County elected official while facing a DUI case in Cook County court.
She lost in the Democratic primary in March.
But she won in court today chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...
On Tuesday, Judge Donald Suriano handed down a not guilty verdict after finding the evidence in the 2024 case only amounted to “suspicion of intoxication.”
Ten months after Congress voted to rescind federal funds for public media, the former PBS affiliate at Eastern Illinois University will cease its televised broadcasting service today, May 15. For more than 40 years, WEIU has served eastern Illinois as a public television and radio station and a training ground for student journalists at Eastern Illinois University.
I'm as big a soccer fan as anybody - and went to the games at Soldier Field in 94.
And I'm not averse to criticizing Rahm, as many of you know well.
But FIFA, like the IOC, may be too much trouble - and expense - for even Chicago's famously wily politicians!
WBEZ racks up EIGHT Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards - out of 11 categories - including best "news documentary" for our "Becoming Bovino" podcast in partnership with the Sun-Times! www.rtdna.org/2026-regiona...
