{"id":427763,"date":"2025-12-06T02:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427763\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T02:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:01:16","slug":"friday-december-5-2025-wbez-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427763\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, December 5, 2025 &#8211; WBEZ Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <a class=\"PageLeadBlurred-podcast\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/the-rundown-chicago-news-podcast\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rundown | Chicago News Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Friday, December 5, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"PageLeadBlurred-description\">Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson\u2019s budget team said that an alternative budget proposal from 26 alders who oppose the mayor\u2019s spending plan is based on faulty projections and regressive fines. Indiana state House lawmakers have passed a new congressional map that now advances to the state Senate, where it is unclear if enough lawmakers will support its final passage. Granite City Works will make steel again next year. Plus, from the 67-foot-tall Norway spruce in Millennium Park to a dizzying number of \u201cChristmas Carol\u201d variations, Chicago\u2019s most festive season has arrived. WBEZ\u2019s Courtney Kueppers rounded up the best Chicago festivities you can enjoy this holiday season and she joined WBEZ\u2019s Clare Lane to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rundown | Chicago News Podcast Friday, December 5, 2025 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson\u2019s budget team said that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-427763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115670161105881922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}