On today's show:

- Maya Hutchinson, CEO of Battleground AI

Catch "Chew's Views" with Richard Chew weekdays from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820).

Guests host Dwayne Kennedy

Adam Burke

Chris Bury (DePaul University journalist in residence; @ChrisBuryNews)

9/11 World Trade Center survivor Joseph Dittmar talks to Joan Esposito in an interview first broadcast on WCPT in September 2021, for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Mr. Dittmar was at a meeting of insurance executives on the 105th floor of the South Tower when the first plane hit. He tells Joan the harrowing story of his escape from the building and also talks about the Always Remember Initiative that he created.

Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820).

Catch "Chew's Views" with Richard Chew weekdays from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. Central on

WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820).

Bob DeRuntz (Dem candidate for Porter County (IN) councilman)

Arad Boxenbaum (Gen Z Democratic activist from Geneva, IL; @AradBoxenbaum)

Dan Schaefer (@danschaefer18)

Adam Selzer https://mysteriouschicago.com/

On today's show:

- Brendan Duke, senior director of economic policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund

- David Hochberg of Team Hochberg at Homeside Financial (56david.com)

- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul

- Heartland Signal's Rich Eberwein with three stories you might have missed from our digital newsroom (heartlandsignal.com)

Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820)

On September 10th WCPT's Joan Esposito talked to Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who began a second term in office last year after winning reelection in November 2022.

In the interview Raoul spoke about misogyny where it concerns Vice President Kamala Harris and men who "think that they somehow are compromising their manhood by supporting a woman to be in a position higher than whatever they have achieved and that it's not displaying strength somehow, it’s somehow displaying a weakness. If you can overcome any insecurity that you have with regards to that, then that displays strength," he said, expressing sentiments similar to those that he shared with more than 40,000 Black men on a virtual fundraising call for Kamala Harris in July.

Raoul also talked about his efforts to protect women in Illinois from the aggressive tactics of state attorneys general like Ken Paxton of Texas, "who longarm into other states, like the state of Illinois" in order to gather medical records related to reproductive health care. Paxton recently sued the Biden administration to block a federal rule that shields such records.

And in the wake of the mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia, Raoul advocated an all-inclusive approach for reducing gun violence. "It's everything," he said. "It’s the accessibility of guns, it’s making sure that minors are not in possession of such guns, making sure people with developmental disabilities aren’t in possession of guns, if they’re a threat to themselves or somebody else. It’s making sure that we don’t let trauma go untreated."

Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820).

In a September 9th interview on WCPT Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson talks to Joan Esposito about the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which he described as "a full display of the beauty, the soul that’s Chicago," adding, "I promised a safe and a vibrant DNC and that’s exactly what we delivered." Johnson praised the combined efforts of the Chicago Police and Fire Departments, the city's Office of Emergency Management & Communications, the Department of Streets & Sanitation, and the train and bus operators "that made this convention a worthwhile expression of who we are as a city." (Find the full interview here: https://soundcloud.com/wcpt820/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-talks-to-joan-esposito-9924)

Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820).

On today's show:

- Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton

Catch "Chew's Views" with Richard Chew weekdays from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820).