My Chicago is a new half-hour local series from the producers of Check, Please! and WTTW Chicago.

It is a “talk show on wheels” in which alternating hosts Odette Yousef and Mark Bazer drive around Chicagoland, interviewing two famous, notable, or simply interesting Chicagoans who tell about their life in the city.

The series premieres on WTTW11 and wttw.com on Friday, April 25 at 8:30 p.m., its regular time slot.

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Guests during this inaugural season include New York Times bestselling author John Green; Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne M. Burke; grocery store magnate Bob Mariano; Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle; Rep. Luis Gutierrez; local media triumvirate Phil, Dan, and Anthony Ponce; and many more.

Mark Bazer is the host/creator of The Interview Show, a live talk show held monthly at The Hideout, in Chicago, and occasionally at Union Hall, in Brooklyn.

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Odette Yousef is a reporter for WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, covering the city’s North Side and the people who live there.

WTTW is the Midwest’s leading public media organization, offering television and digital media content across four television channels – WTTW11, WTTW Prime, the Spanish-language channel WTTW V-me, and WTTW Create/WTTW WORLD, and on wttw.com.