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Chicago Matters: Beyond Borders

Now in its 17th year, Chicago's award-winning multimedia public affairs series returns in 2007 with Chicago Matters: Beyond Borders to explore the impact of immigration in Chicago and the region.
Examining Health

What do eastern remedies and western medicine, clinical medical ethics and Asthma have in common? They were some of the topics explored in Chicago Matters: Examining Health.
Growing Forward: Air

With O’Hare expanding and the skyline filling up, it seems like a good time to explore the quality of our air. Tune in all year long to Chicago Matters: Growing Forward as we explore the environmental problems we’re facing as our region grows.
Growing Forward: Community

Tune in all year long to Chicago Matters: Growing Forward as we discuss how different Chicago communities are responding to environmental changes in their midst.
Growing Forward: Energy

Tune in all year as Chicago Matters: Growing Forward explores our region’s changing energy needs and how they’re transforming our shared climate.
Growing Forward: Food

Tune in all year long to Chicago Matters: Growing Forward as we dig into the environmental effects of the way we as a region chose to break our daily bread.
Growing Forward: Land

How do we build new homes and roads while still preserving our prairies? Tune in all year as Chicago Matters: Growing Forward examines the changing state of our land.
Growing Forward: Transportation

Why all the gridlock? Tune in all year to Chicago Matters: Growing Forward, as we explore the traffic of trains, planes and automobiles in our region
Growing Forward: Waste

How much energy do we use to transport and recycle our waste? Tune in all year long to Chicago Matters: Growing Forwardas we look at just what happens to all the trash we generate and just what sorts of things can be done with it.
Growing Forward: Water

Tune into Chicago Matters: Growing Forward all year long as we taste the vitality and longevity of our area’s water.
Inside Housing

In 2002's Chicago Matters series, Inside Housing, our reports follow Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) residents on the move, take the measure of class conflict in the south suburbs, and profile a family that can't make their mortgage. This year, in a takeoff on the personal essay, writer Alex Kotlowitz is producing Chicagoans' personal stories about home, told in their own words.
Money Talks

Chicago Matters: Money Talks, Chicago's award winning, multimedia public affairs series explores the role of money in the Chicago region and the profound affect money has on every aspect of our everyday lives.
Our Next Generation

Chicago Matters: Our Next Generation explores how society is influenced by—and how the world looks to—local youth. Civic life, economic markets, popular culture, the educational system, even the built environment—all are being changed in subtle and dramatic ways by today's young people.
Valuing Education

Chicago Matters: Valuing Education is an examination of education in the Chicago region. The fall installment of reports, documentaries, personal stories and more originally aired September 25-October 5, 2006.
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