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Co-anchored by Brandis Friedman and Paris Schutz, the flagship nightly newsmagazine from WTTW Chicago covers breaking news, arts and entertainment, business, crime and law, education, health, politics, and science and nature stories relevant to diverse communities and national audiences. (official site)

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Economic sanctions. Collateral consequences. Permanent punishments. There are 44,000 restrictive laws, rules, and policies that continue to penalize people long after they have served their sentence. This WTTW News four-part series examines this stark reality faced by nearly 3.3 million men and women in Illinois.

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