WBEZ

Chicago Public Media Inc.

About this app

The WBEZ app lets you listen to the news and voices of Chicago on your schedule, wherever you are. Listen to live radio broadcasts, on-demand audio features and podcasts with the best storytelling locally and around the nation. You’ll enjoy original WBEZ Chicago programming and shows from our partners, including NPR, BBC and more.

Take your trusted news on the go. Listen to the news live wherever your day takes you. The WBEZ app delivers Chicago news, national news and international news right to your hand.

You never have to miss a minute again. You can rewind at any moment and replay any live show from the last week to catch up on anything you missed. With the WBEZ app, continue to get investigative journalism, cultural reporting, news headlines and more on your timeline.

Discover something new. Browse through the best audio stories and shows WBEZ Chicago has to offer. Each day, featured stories are curated just for you from our newsroom. Plus, you can find popular podcasts from WBEZ, NPR and other featured partners; including titles such as Curious City, Nerdette, Motive and Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! There’s something for everyone with the WBEZ app.

WBEZ Chicago is listener-supported and Chicago’s NPR news station, one of the largest and most respected public media stations in the country.

Ratings and reviews

It starts streaming when I click the play button fine, but when I click to stop sometimes it stops, sometimes it starts a second stream. When I click a third time it stops the second stream. I've had to go into app settings to kill the app to actually stop play. Also it dies on occasion. I'm connecting via WiFi so I don't think that problem is with my connection. Edit: now it completely doesn't work. At all.

Oh, I'm so happy! This app was working great for a very long time, and then all of a sudden, it would refuse to open. I tried everything that you're supposed to try to get an app to work, but it was fruitless. I gave up, then today - 2 weeks from when the app started not responding - I tried it again, expecting nothing - - and it's WORKING BEAUTIFULLY!! Hooray! WBEZ is just the best for balanced reporting and podcasts. I felt lost without it, but now it's back. Hope it stays that way!

It would be nice if this app opened to the current show, not the one coming next that can't be streamed. It would be nice if it could handle changing from wifi to lte. It would be nice if it didn't occasionally just cease playing audio (except occasional noise) requiring switching to a different stream and back to get it to work. It'd be nice if it didn't occasionally flip out and play despite all button presses, quitting the app or using the shade widget. What it does, when it does it, is great.

What’s new

Maintenance release to improve app experience, including: - bug fixes