848; 05 Married Duo Makes Music; 01 Chicago Spire Unveiled; 02 Tiny Houses; 03 From Ethiopia to Peoria; 04 Exploring the Ancient Americas
- Episode
- 848
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- 05 Married Duo Makes Music
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- 01 Chicago Spire Unveiled
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- 02 Tiny Houses
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- 03 From Ethiopia to Peoria
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- WBEZ
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- WBEZ (Chicago, Illinois)
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- cpb-aacip/50-50tqjvwr
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- 05 We talk with Grant Birkenbeuel and JinJa Davis, the duo behind the low-fi alternative-country folk-tinged sounds of Utah Carol.
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- Episode The morning after the general public gets their first glimpse at the latest details for the Chicago Spire, Architecture Contributor Ed Keegan brings us his analysis. Plus, the Environment Report's Rebecca Williams reports on some homeowners efforts to downsize. We talk with Grant Birkenbeuel and JinJa Davis, the duo behind the low-fi alternative country, folk-tinged sounds of Utah Carol. And, Field Museum curator Jonathan Hass takes us on a tour of the roots of American civilization.
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- 01 Chicagoans are reacting today to the latest designs for what could be the citys tallest skyscraper and the tallest residential building in the world. Its Santiago Calatravas Chicago Spire. The 150-story skyscraper would house 1,300 condominiums and would soar above both the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center. Evan Calatrava admits its a bold proposal. The Spanish-born architect was in Chicago yesterday to present his latest renderings for the project at a series of community gatherings. They show additional modifications to his plans for a white twisting tower that would rise from a parcel of land just west of Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago. Architecture Contributor Ed Keegan joins us to sort through the details of the aesthetics, politics and economics of the design
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- 02 While Americans are generally buying bigger and bigger homes, the Environment Reports Rebecca Williams reports on some homeowners efforts to downsize.
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- 03 Writer Dinaw Mengestu moved to the United States from Ethiopia in 1980 when he was a small child. In his debut novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, he draws from his childhood growing up as an African immigrant in the small Midwestern town of Peoria, Illinois. Its an experience that made plain the difference between being African-American and being African in America. In his book, Mengestu imparts this struggle to the main character Sepha and his African friends, who live in a gentrifying Washington, D.C. neighborhood in the 1970s. Eight Forty-Eight's Vanessa Bush recently talked with Mengestu, who began by reading an excerpt from his novel.
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- 04 From clans to organized communities to war states; it's all in the Field Museum's new permanent exhibit The Ancient Americas. We talk with curator Jonathan Haas about the roots of American civilization.
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- Sound
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Distributor: WBEZ
Producing Organization: WBEZ
Production Unit: 848
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Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ-FM) and Vocalo.org
Identifier: 10724 (WBEZ)
Format: Data CD: CD-R
Generation: Master
Duration: 01:00:00?
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- Chicago: “848; 05 Married Duo Makes Music; 01 Chicago Spire Unveiled; 02 Tiny Houses; 03 From Ethiopia to Peoria; 04 Exploring the Ancient Americas,” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 27, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-50tqjvwr.
- MLA: “848; 05 Married Duo Makes Music; 01 Chicago Spire Unveiled; 02 Tiny Houses; 03 From Ethiopia to Peoria; 04 Exploring the Ancient Americas.” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 27, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-50tqjvwr>.
- APA: 848; 05 Married Duo Makes Music; 01 Chicago Spire Unveiled; 02 Tiny Houses; 03 From Ethiopia to Peoria; 04 Exploring the Ancient Americas. Boston, MA: WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-50tqjvwr