10 Best Chicago Audio Drama Podcasts

1. Our Fair City

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Our Fair City is a campy, post-apocalyptic audio drama from Audacious Machine Creative. Learn more at www.audaciousmachinecreative.com
Hosts Jeffrey Gardner, Eleanor Hyde
Producer/Network Audacious Machine Creative
Email ****@audaciousmachinecreative.com
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2. UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

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Real people, real stories, stirring dramatic accounts of hopelessness…and the hope that changes everything. These are UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas, with the award-winning storytelling that's been unique to UNSHACKLED! Ministries for more than 70 years -- but this time, with a behind-the-scenes look. So join us as we dramatize true stories of transformation and share lesser-known details that have made us the longest running audio drama in history.MORE Hosts Tim Gregory, Elizabeth Kupferschmid
Producer/Network UNSHACKLED! - Pacific Garden Mission
Email ****@pgm.org
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States
Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 6.6KTwitter 371Instagram 1.4K Avg Length 31 min Format Medium form Since Dec 2020 Get Email Contact

3. Make-Believe

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Every story is a crossroads. A diverse company of Chicago artists produces new audio dramas—recorded live—and stages freewheeling audience conversations about them. Led by Founder and Executive Producer Jeremy McCarter, Make-Believe shares suspenseful, moving, hilarious stories, and tries to discover how they shape our world.MORE Producer/Network Make-Believe Association
Email ****@makebelieve.fm
Apple Rating 4.7/5 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

4. The Museum at Tomorrow

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An audio fiction collage from Jeffrey Nils Gardner
Host Jeffrey Nils Gardner
Producer/Network Audacious Machine
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Apple Rating 4/5 Avg Length 7 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

5. Sci-Fi Carnival

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Sci-Fi Carnival is a monthly podcast where hosts Maryck Allyson and James Robinson nerd out with impunity about all things science fiction. Nothing is all off-limits and anything is possible in the sci-fi realm.MORE Hosts Maryck Allyson, James Robinson
Producer/Network Maryck Allyson & James Robinson
Email ****@maryckallyson.com
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States
Apple Rating 4.7/5Twitter 54 Avg Length 123 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

6. COPPERHEART: A RiggStories Audio Drama

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COPPERHEART is an Audio Drama set in an alternate reality during a Nuclear Winter. Over 2,000 people (civilians, scientists, and military personnel) live underground in a multi-leveled USRB (United States Reconstruction Bunker) in Groom Lake, Nevada. They're all just waiting out the clock, preparing future generations to re-claim the surface of the earth...until a visitor arrives.MORE Host Michael J Rigg
Producer/Network Michael J Rigg, RiggStories.com
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Apple Rating 4.6/5 Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

7. Isfet Archives: A Mythic Audio Drama

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Emily Swanson was a normal barista in a local Chicago cafe when strange things started happening around her. Now, she doesn't know who to trust or who is trying to take advantage of her. To make things worse, she just might cause the end of the world.Find our shows at www.creativetypo.comMORE Producer/Network Creative Typo Entertainment
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Apple Rating 4.5/5 Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. Asanté: The Audio Series

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Asanté: The Audio Series, is a new coming of age story told in a way like never before. This self-titled audio series, Produced by Actor, Writer and Artist; Asanté Deshon, follows the life of the main character, Asanté Hall. Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Asanté being only a senior in high school, comes to the conclusion that there has to be more to life than just surviving. Made specially for the ears, this dramatic/comedic storyline manages to entertain, uplift and remind its listeners they are not alone in this thing we call 'life'. #Comedy #Drama #ScriptedSeries #FictionMORE Producer/Network Asanté Deshon
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Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 5 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact