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In April 2017, the Franklin Center acquired the non-profit Illinois News Network and its associated assets from the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative think tank led by John Tillman. [27] INN publisher Chris Krug was named President of the Franklin Center and the headquarters moving to Chicago, Illinois. [28] [8] [29]
The company was founded by Chicago broadcasting veteran John Weigel, whose career dated back to the 1930s. With $1,000 of his own money and another $1,000 from his attorney, Daniel J. McCarthy, Weigel bought the broadcasting license for what became the first UHF television station in the Chicago area. WCIU signed on the air on February 6, 1964.
Chicago Public Media (CPM) is a not-for-profit radio and print media company. CPM operates as the primary National Public Radio member organization for Chicago. It owns three non-commercial educational FM broadcast stations and one FM translator. In addition to local news and information productions, it produces the programs Wait Wait...
WBEZ (91.5 FM) – branded WBEZ 91.5 – is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, and primarily serving the tri-state region of the Chicago metropolitan area. It is owned by Chicago Public Media and is financed by listener contributions, corporate underwriting and some government funding. [ 2 ]
Newsweb Corporation is a printer of ethnic and alternative newspapers in the United States, based in Chicago, Illinois.The company also owns AM 750 WNDZ.Newsweb was founded in 1971 by Chicago entrepreneur, political activist, and philanthropist Fred Eychaner to continue his printing business.
Asked if Illinois, with an anticipated $3 billion budget deficit for the next fiscal year, should have a similar effort, stat WATCH: Legislators split on whether DOGE should come to Illinois with ...
The group worked closely with former Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, a Republican and past donor to IPI, [12] during the first several years of his gubernatorial tenure. [13] [14] However, Rauner's relationship with IPI deteriorated [2] in part due to an article by ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Sun-Times which reported that IPI's leadership had "moved millions of dollars around five ...
WPWR-TV (channel 50), branded as Fox Chicago Plus, is a television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, United States.It is one of two commercial television stations in the Chicago market to be licensed in Indiana (alongside WJYS [channel 62] in Hammond).