This week, The Mincing Rascals are John Williams of WGN Radio, Eric Zorn, formerly of Chicago Tribune, Lisa Donovan of Chicago Tribune and Austin Berg of Illinois Policy Institute. They begin their roundtable discussion by weighing the pros and cons of holding Lollapalooza as planned, at full capacity next week. They move on to discuss […]

The Mincing Rascals are John Williams of WGN Radio, Eric Zorn, formerly of The Chicago Tribune, Austin Berg of The Illinois Policy Institute, Jon Hansen of both Block Club Chicago and WGN Radio, and Brandon Pope of WCIU. The Rascals begin by discussing whether or not Chicago Public Schools should keep their School Resource Officers […]

The Mincing Rascals are John Williams of WGN Radio, Eric Zorn, formerly of The Chicago Tribune, Heather Cherone of WTTW and Austin Berg of The Illinois Policy Institute. The Rascals begin by discussing the most violent weekend of the year in Chicago, and who people are looking to for answers. Then, the group addresses the […]

This week, the Mincing Rascals are Jon Hansen of Block Club Chicago and WGN Radio, Eric Zorn, formerly of The Chicago Tribune, Lisa Donovan of The Chicago Tribune and Heather Cherone of WTTW. They begin their discussion with sharing how they’ll be referring to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Lake Shore Drive in everyday conversation. […]

This week, The Mincing Rascals are John Williams of WGN Radio, Eric Zorn of The Chicago Tribune, Austin Berg of The Illinois Policy Institute and Brandon Pope of WCIU. The Rascals begin by evaluating the efforts of Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the City Council to bring justice and safety. Then, the group explores the usefulness […]

The Mincing Rascals are John Williams of WGN Radio, Eric Zorn of Chicago Tribune, Heather Cherone of WTTW, Jon Hansen of Block Club Chicago and Austin Berg of Illinois Policy Institute. They begin this week’s discussion with Eric Zorn’s decision to leave the Tribune, taking a buyout. And Governor J.B. Pritzker’s announced a $10 million […]

The Mincing Rascals are John Williams of WGN Radio, Eric Zorn and Lisa Donovan of Chicago Tribune, and Jon Hansen of Block Club Chicago. They kicked off the discussion by going off on a tangent talking about woman’s softball. Then they get back on course and talk about how Chicago goes in to phase five […]

The Mincing Rascals are John Williams of WGN Radio, Eric Zorn and Lisa Donovan of Chicago Tribune, Brandon Pope of WCIU and Jon Hansen of Block Club Chicago. They discuss Mayor Lightfoot and her work in reducing gun violence, as well as her efforts in the riots a year ago this week, which followed the […]

The Mincing Rascals are John Williams of WGN Radio, Eric Zorn of Chicago Tribune, Brandon Pope of WCIU, Heather Cherone of WTTW and Austin Berg of Illinois Policy Institute. They begin this week’s discussion by hashing out what’s next since the acquisition of Chicago Tribune by hedge fund Alden Global Capital. Then, the Rascals talk […]

It’s not a rerun; it’s a best of!  The Rascals were not able to assemble a suitable panel this week – it’s like these people have real jobs or something – so we pulled the episode from exactly one year ago. It was a different time. Enjoy this show from May of 2020 and listen […]