Reversal of fortune: Saving Chicago from its own poop.When a river isn’t a river. |
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Want to see Chicago’s segregation?
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Corn economics and world hunger.Our biggest crop? Not a foodstuff. For Marketplace. |
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What happens when a sex club tries to call itself a church?You know, for zoning purposes. |
“Baudelaire in a Box” celebrates the poet of failureAn oddball marathon celebrates the poet of spleen. For NPR’s |
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How billiards created the modern worldOne word: Plastics. |
Where did Chicago’s old-school donut shops go?
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How screwed is Chicago, really?Will it become a second Detroit? For Marketplace |
If there’s no state budget, where do tax dollars go?Strange-but-true answers, from Illinois’ two-year budget impasse. |
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Why you can’t help paying four bucks for a latteA neuro-economist explains. For WBEZ. |
The MCC: Chicago’s Jailhouse SkyscraperFor 99 Percent Invisible. |
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Miami condo-buyers aren’t homeowners.They’re traders. Climate risk? Not remotely their issue. Marketplace |
Are Blacks locked out of the legal weed business?“Big weed” isn’t an equal-opportunity… opportunity. For NPR’s Morning Edition. |
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I'm a reporter and radio producer-- most recently on staff with Chicago's WBEZ. My work also appears on All Things Considered, Marketplace, the BBC, 99 Percent Invisible, and Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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@danweissmann
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