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The Block Club Chicago Podcast Block Club Chicago
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4.8 • 132 Ratings
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The important, emotional, inspiring stories affecting Chicagoans.
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The Country’s Oldest Black Tennis Club Is Keeping The Sport Alive In Bronzeville
The nation’s first Black tennis club started on privately owned land needs help repairing its tennis courts, and club members are looking to the public for support. The Chicago Prairie Tennis Club, 3211 S. Ellis Ave., faces a heavy financial lift as four of the courts they’ve been using for decades have fallen into disrepair.
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The Cubs-White Sox Rivalry Goes Back To A Baseball ‘War’ In 1900
For over 120 years, the battle over fans, space and prestige in Chicago — and in the history books — has simmered between the North Side and South Side teams and their supporters. Here’s how it happened.
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This Chicago Bar Is Celebrating 90 Legal Years -- Not Counting Its Speakeasy Era
The backdrop of Andersonville’s Clark Street business corridor may have evolved over the decades, but one anchor on the street has remained steadfast: an unsuspecting neighborhood bar with a large “pickled” herring neon sign hanging over the sidewalk.
Simon’s Tavern, 5210 N. Clark St., has been operating for 90 years as of this spring, owner Scott Martin said. -
Turns Out, Our 'City Of Neighborhoods' Has No Neighborhoods At All
The city has 77 community areas -- but no officially recognized neighborhoods. A Chicago Neighborhood Project survey asked residents to define where they live. Project leader Professor Emily Talen joins the Block Club Chicago podcast to explain.
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The Ultimate 2024 Summer Bucket List!
The Block Club Chicago Staff offers their summer bucket lists for 2024!
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Chicago's Pride Month Celebrations Start With The Queer Fam Pride Jam
Queer Fam Pride Jam returns June 2nd for its second annual edition. The LGBTQ+ family-friendly celebration will kick off Pride Month with drag performances, DJ sets, dancing, crafts, face painting, a vendor market and more. Today's episode chats with the organizers of the event.
Queer Fam Pride Jam will take place 10 a.m.-1 p.m. June 2 at Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St. This year’s event is being hosted alongside the Chicago House Music Festival for a daylong celebration at the park.
House Music started in Chicago, and part 2 of this episode examines that history with On The Block host Brandon Pope
Customer Reviews
Great Chicago journalism, for your ears
The Block Club Chicago podcast gives a voice to a city full of people with stories to tell. It’s a refreshing source of informative and interesting local journalism, delivered with a conversational tone that feels like an informed neighbor telling me about the things that are going on around me that I should know about. I’ve been enjoying it as a regular source of local news and often recommend this podcast to other Chicagoans.
Disappointingly boring
As a lifelong Chicagoan, I was excited to find this podcast. Some of the stores are covered in a very poor fashion. They unfortunately disproportionately cover street crime like the rest of Chicago media. Block Club Chicago articles are typically pretty good. This needs a revamp
I miss the old image
Excellent local coverage, often with a positive community angle: essential, and very enjoyable. But — and I’m not sure what to call the image attached to a podcast: its placard? billboard? thumbnail? illustration? “cover?” — I miss the old image which came attached to this download: it had the air of a colorful community mural, the kind of thing local artists pretty up a neighborhood with! The new big blocky B against a black background is … kinda dull, by contrast. I get that maybe you’re going for a more “serious” look? But no one needs that. Reporting is where you get your gravitas from, so let us keep our joyous and colorful community mural!
[Edit: I dunno why, but my review appeared under a single star — but I’ve given you FIVE stars!! so I’m editing this to try and correct that. 2023.11.14.18.41]