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3.11.2010 Strategic Communications Committee - WBEZ Alliance's Board of Directors
3.11.2010 Love & War: Is There Ever Time for Peace? A Performance and Conversation with Comedian Azhar Usman
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Chicago Amplified
Chicago Amplified is a Web-based audio archive filled with educational events taking place throughout the Chicago region.

Click on Archive to listen to and download past events. Click on Upcoming Events to see what’s upcoming, and look below to see what’s been recently featured by Chicago Public Radio.
Featured Events
Where I’m From  
Adults in low-income neighborhoods combined their theme Where I’m From with the Chicago Humanities Festival’s theme of Laughter for a vivid and original performance.
Bookstore Owners Talk Business  
Three independent bookstore owners talk business. The discussion features owners of The Bookstall, Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore and Bookie's Paperbacks & More.
Patti Smith  
Patti Smith, the world renowned writer, musician and visual artist, discusses and signs her new book, Just Kids, a memoir of her time in New York with Robert Mapplethorpe.
The Island: Post-Show with Lisa Wagner  
Lisa Wagner is a Catholic Worker, the founder and co-director of The Imagination Workshop, and performs a play about Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day.
T.C. Boyle  
T.C. Boyle, one of the most acclaimed American writers of today, reads from and discusses his new collection of stories, Wild Child: and Other Stories.
Local News
Boston Blackie's Owners Charged In Bank Scheme

Chicago Immigrant Advocate Presses Obama

Maggie Daley Released From Hospital

Illinois Foreclosures Fall in February From January

Attorneys Give Opening Statements in Boender Trial

Radogno Says Quinn is Playing Political Games with Budget

Aldermen Blast Obama for Lack of Immigration Reform



National News
APNewsBreak: Terror suspect worked at nuke plants

Dems look to health vote without abortion foes

Obama says he's committed to immigration overhaul

Fed. appeals court upholds 'under God' in pledge

GOP loses bid for ethics probe of Dem leaders

Sen. Reid's wife, daughter injured in accident

NYC to pay up to $657M to settle WTC health cases



International News
Strong quakes torment Chile as president sworn in

Haiti: Kidnappers release 2 European aid workers

Early Iraq results: PM battling secular challenger

In Mexico, gay couples celebrate historic weddings

Greece hit by strikes, clashes over austerity plan

UN food agency welcomes any probe into Somalia aid

Biden steers past spat over Israel settlement plan

Vatican criticizes condom machines in Rome school

Sweden labels mass killing of Armenians genocide

43 Somalis die in capital after 2 days of warfare