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Walter Jacobson's Perspective WGN Radio
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Legendary Chicago journalist Walter Jacobson offers his Perspective on local politics, news and more in this podcast on WGN Plus from WGN Radio in Chicago.
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Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-13-24: Best wishes and a toast to butterflies!
For as long as I can remember, the Sunday morning newspapers for me have been an every Sunday must, because in addition to behind-the-scenes politics, there are all kinds of news. Like last Sunday, the news about Harold Terens and Jeanne Swerlin of Florida traveling to France to get married on the 80th anniversary of […]
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Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 6-6-24: Please, Ms. Foxx, don’t put restraints on your prosecutors
Heads up, everybody! Heads up! Kim Foxx, the State’s Attorney of Cook County, wants us to know she is instructing prosecutors in her office not to prosecute people who are driving cars that are stopped by police for routine traffic violations, then searched for illegal guns and drugs. She says too many people are stopped […]
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Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 5-30-24: An honor so well-deserved for Jesse White
Like so many people, I am glued to news about Donald Trump. But right now I’m thinking about a famous political person here in Illinois who is every bit as well-known as Trump because he was for so many years our Secretary of State. Of course, I’m thinking about Jesse White, whose name and no […]
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Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 5-23-24: The Chicago Bears are wasting no time at all to cash in on Caleb Williams
It’s not a surprise, not at all a surprise, that the Chicago Bears are wasting no time at all to cash in on Caleb Williams, the recently-drafted college superstar quarterback Caleb Williams. The Bears owners and managers in Halas Hall appear to be charging the cost of hiring Caleb Williams to Bear fans, especially season […]
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Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 5-16-24: For the Boy Scouts of America, it’s about time to change
There’s big news being made by the Boy Scouts of America, changing their name from Boy Scouts of America to Scouting of America, a change halting a treasured tradition of more than 100 years calling that group of elite young men the Boy Scouts of America. I never made it to the Boy Scouts, but […]
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Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 5-9-24: It is safe to speculate the Bears will change their plan or give up on a lakefront stadium
There are so many ups and downs in the news about the Chicago Bears. Good news about the Bears drafting a superstar college quarterback and a superstar college wide receiver. Very good news. But, for the Bears, there’s bad news about their plans to build a $4,700,000,000 stadium on Chicago’s beloved lakefront, a plan that’s […]