Behind the Mic of "Division Street Revisited" Podcast

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Meet Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Schmich and Bill Healy, the host and producer of Division Street Revisited. 

Mary Schmich has been a journalist since 1980. She spent 29 years as a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. She focuses on race, women, family, the human heart and the complex life of Chicago. She won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. She knew Studs Terkel.

An award-winning podcast producer, Healy co-created “You Didn’t See Nothin,” which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting and a Peabody Award. Healy has worked on stories for NPR, the BBC, and “This American Life,” and spent years editing StoryCorps for Chicago’s public radio station, WBEZ.

Division Street Revisited follows up on the stories of “uncelebrated” people in Studs Terkel’s groundbreaking 1967 oral history, Division Street: America. 

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