On today's show:

– Brian Endless, senior lecturer and director of African Studies and the African Diaspora at Loyola University Chicago
– Dan Protess, co-executive producer of WTTW’s award-winning multiplatform initiative “Firsthand”
– Amy Johnson, Democrat running to be Kane County (Illinois) sheriff
– Devin Remiker, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
– Heartland Signal’s Rich Eberwein with three stories you might have missed from our digital newsroom

Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/live-local-progressive).

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