Latest Chicago politics Podcast Episodes
A.D. Q&A on the future of work in Illinois
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - May 30, 2022 17:16 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIf you read Crain’s, you’ve probably spent a good amount of time thinking about the future of work – e-commerce, automation and telecommuting. Even if you don’t spend much time thinking about it, it’s abundantly clear that covid has rapidly accelerated those trends. Remote schooling and telehealt...
A.D. Q&A with Chicago Reader Publisher Tracy Baim
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - May 23, 2022 22:08 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThe Chicago Reader is one of the city’s best-known free papers and one of a few remaining alt-weeklies to survive the media crunch that killed dozens across the country. Until recently, the Reader seemed like it was about to go under, too. Our guest this week is the Reader’s publisher, Tracy Baim...
A.D. Q&A with new Chicago Inspector General Deborah Witzburg
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - May 16, 2022 20:17 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsChicago's Office of the Inspector General has published many blockbuster reports over the years. Its job is to investigate corruption, misconduct, waste, fraud and abuse big and small. In recent years, it's found a culture of sexual harassment in the Chicago Fire Department, blasted the Chicago P...
A.D. Q&A with AMA CEO Jim Madara on how overturning Roe v. Wade could criminalize healthcare
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - May 09, 2022 21:10 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWhen the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion leaked suggesting Roe v Wade would be overturned this summer, immediate reaction came from the political sphere. What did President Biden say? Gubernatorial candidates? Pro- and anti-abortion groups? And what did this mean for Illinois as a so-called abor...
A.D. Q&A with Chicago Police Department whistleblower Chad Williams
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - May 02, 2022 22:35 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThe name of this week's guest, Chad Williams, might ring a bell if you’ve followed the lengthy debate about how the Chicago Police Department is meeting its reform mandates as part of the consent decree. Williams made a splash when his letter resigning from CPD’s audit division was made public in...
A.D. Q&A on solving downtown Chicago's problems with Ald. Brendan Reilly
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - April 25, 2022 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThis week, we examine the state of the Loop. If you read Crain’s, you know the recovery is… uneven. Let’s take a quick look at some headlines at chicagobusiness.com about the Loop area office scene, in case you missed them: Downtown office vacancy jumps to another record high... Louis Vuitton's M...
A.D. Q&A on Harold Washington at 100: his historic mayoral race and lasting impact
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - April 18, 2022 21:34 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsLast week, dignitaries from across the city and state celebrated the late Mayor Harold Washington, whose 100th birthday would have been April 15. Top Washington aides like Jacky Grimshaw and Josie Childs; contemporaries like Congressmen "Chuy" Garcia, Bobby Rush and former Congressman Luis Gutier...
A.D. Q&A on Chicago City Council attendance
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - April 11, 2022 22:46 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWhat if you skipped half the meetings you were supposed to attend for work? A third? A quarter? Could you still be effective? Would you still know everything you needed to do your job well? To earn your full paycheck? That’s what you should ask of your elected representatives, too. On this week’s...
A.D. Q&A with Chicago violent crime expert Jens Ludwig
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - April 04, 2022 21:36 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsAs Chicago emerges from its most violent year since the 1990s, year-to-date crime statistics for March show a slight drop in shootings and murders, according to the Chicago Police Department – with the biggest drops in the city’s 15 most violent community areas. But our guest this week argues som...
A.D. Q&A with leaders of Chicago anti-violence efforts
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - March 28, 2022 20:27 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsAs Illinois lawmakers edge toward the end of spring session and head into campaign season, talk of potential bills to address a rise in crime is heating up. Democratic lawmakers, fearful of polling that shows violence is a top concern for voters, have discussed legislation cracking down on ghost ...
A.D. Q&A with The House That Madigan Built author Ray Long
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - March 21, 2022 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIllinois’ political world was rocked on March 2, when U.S. Attorney John Lausch announced a 22-count federal racketeering indictment against former House Speaker Michael J. Madigan. The charges allege Madigan oversaw a criminal enterprise to preserve and enhance his political power and finances, ...
A.D. Q&A with Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Larry Rogers Jr.
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - March 14, 2022 21:44 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsMarch in Cook County this year marks the official start of primary season and, for many, the due date for first installment property taxes. We talk both primary and property taxes with Larry Rogers Jr. In his private life, Rogers is a successful trial attorney at Power Rogers LLP. In public life,...
A.D. Q&A with Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - March 07, 2022 22:45 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsChicago is in its second week without an indoor mask mandate or vaccine requirement to get into certain bars and restaurants. COVID cases are under 200 per day. Our test positivity is under one percent - a number we haven’t seen since last summer. We’re in a new era of the pandemic, officials hav...
A.D. Q&A charting Bronzeville's transformation
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - February 28, 2022 22:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThis week, to close out Black History Month, we’re talking Bronzeville. The Black Metropolis south of the Loop along the lakefront has a rich history of culture and entrepreneurship. It’s been home to great writers, artists, musicians, politicians and intellectuals. Now it’s the subject of a new ...
A.D. Q&A with Obama Foundation executive Michael Strautmanis
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - February 21, 2022 22:18 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThis week's guest has been behind the scenes in Chicago politics for years, but just out of the frame. He’s crossed paths with Rod Blagojevich and Jesse Jackson Jr., worked on the Clinton/Gore campaign in the same political organization as a young Don Harmon and Phil Rock. But for the bulk of his...
A.D. Q&A with leaders of Kids First Chicago and Big Shoulders Fund
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - February 14, 2022 22:32 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsEach fall, Chicago media report a consistent trend – declining enrollment at Chicago Public Schools. Of those who left by the start of the 2022 school year, about 18,000 moved to a school outside Chicago, 3,000 transferred to private schools, 2,000 dropped out and 1,400 opted for home schooling. ...
A.D. Q&A with Civic Federation President Laurence Msall
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - February 07, 2022 21:33 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIllinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s budget proposal likely will be a key plank of his re-election platform. Not only does it contain goodies for everyday Illinoisans – a property tax rebate for roughly 2 million people, plus a one-year break on grocery and gas taxes – the governor says it demonstrates ...
A.D. Q&A with the filmmakers of Punch 9 for Harold Washington
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - January 31, 2022 22:25 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThis week, we go back in time with the makers of the documentary Punch 9 for Harold Washington. The film examines the incomparable former Mayor of Chicago’s time in office. Pulled from Congress, Washington became Chicago’s first Black Mayor in 1983 thanks to a multiracial coalition of progressive...
A.D. Q&A with Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - January 24, 2022 22:19 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsToni Preckwinkle, president of the Cook County Board and chair of the Cook County Democratic Party, has been at the center of local politics, power and policy for years, so she has a lot of critical issues to discuss, from COVID struggles at the county’s health system and what suburbanites are ge...
A.D. Q&A with economist Austan Goolsbee
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - January 17, 2022 22:35 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThis week's guest is Austan Goolsbee, a former economic advisor to President Barack Obama, a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. As the pandemic has surged, Goolsbee’s been ke...
A.D. Q&A with Chicago Teachers Union VP Stacy Davis Gates
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - January 10, 2022 22:54 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsChicago Public Schools families have logged four days of canceled classes and counting this month. Citing the December COVID surge, the botched rollout of take-home testing over the holidays, and low numbers of families opting for their kids to be regularly tested or to get their shot, the Chicag...
A.D. Q&A with Susan Lee of Chicago CRED
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - December 20, 2021 22:53 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsChicago is poised to end 2021 with more than 800 homicides, the most violent year in a quarter century. Discussing the rising violence is Susan Lee, chief of strategy and policy at Chicago CRED – an anti-gun violence organization. CRED works with men at risk – of being shooting victims or becomin...
A.D. Q&A with Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - December 13, 2021 22:07 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsAfter roughly three years of upending the Cook County Assessor’s office, Fritz Kaegi is in re-election mode. He’s responsible for setting the values for 1.8 million parcels across the county, which help determine local property tax bills. He came into office on an ethics crusade, pledging to end ...
A.D. Q&A with Dr. Emily Landon of UChicago Medicine
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - December 06, 2021 22:14 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsOn this week's episode of A.D. Q&A, Dr. Emily Landon, a professor and the medical director for infection prevention and control at UChicago Medicine, describes what we know – and don't yet know – about omicron. "On paper, it looks like a superpredator," Landon says of the variant, which appears m...
A.D. Q&A with Congressman Adam Kinzinger
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - November 29, 2021 21:36 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsCongressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois has been a national media fixture for more than a year – a Republican ushered into the U.S. House during the Tea Party wave, he turned into a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and “The Big Lie” about election fraud. He was one of ten Republicans who vot...
A.D. Q&A with Chicago Deputy Mayor Samir Mayekar
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - November 22, 2021 22:45 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWhile we’re thinking about big Thanksgiving meals, few folks in Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration have more on their plates than Samir Mayekar, deputy mayor for economic and neighborhood development, a.k.a. the mayor’s business guy. He’s a Day One Lightfooter who came from the tech wo...
A.D. Q&A with Northwestern University professor Jaime Dominguez
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - November 15, 2021 22:52 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIn the latest census, the overall share of the Latino population across Illinois grew to 18.2 percent, up from 15.8 percent a decade ago. Their share of the voting-age population grew to 11.2 percent, up from 8 percent. Meanwhile, Chicago has been solidified as a city roughly equally divided betw...
A.D. Q&A with Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - November 08, 2021 22:37 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsAfter more than a decade away, Pedro Martinez rejoined Chicago Public Schools as CEO with an overflowing inbox. A safe reopening amid the pandemic was first and foremost, but testing was low, and so was the number of eligible kids who were fully vaccinated. There were kids who couldn’t get to sch...
A.D. Q&A with Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - November 01, 2021 20:04 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsAs Chicago closes the book on a pandemic-fueled violent summer, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx explains her progressive approach to prosecutions: fewer felony drug and shoplifting charges, and more emphasis on gun violence. Foxx, the county's lead prosecutor, goes in-depth on the controver...
A.D. Q&A with Professor Justin Marlowe
A.D. Q&A with A.D. Quig - October 25, 2021 19:38 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsAs the Chicago City Council takes up Mayor Lori Lightfoot's $16.7 billion budget proposal, A.D. Quig asks, Does this budget set the city up for a roaring recovery? Are we spending money on the right programs? She discusses the budget's economic implications with Justin Marlowe, Professor at the U...
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