Making

WBEZ Chicago

WBEZ’s critically-acclaimed bio-podcast series explores how icons, industries and newsmakers rose to the top.

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Making

Episodes (54)

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Making

Dec 23, 2025
34¾ minutes
47 MB

Who is Gregory Bovino? For months, the Border Patrol Commander-at-Large led agents through Chicago on an aggressive immigration enforcement campaign, while making sure his noticeably uncovered face was in front of as many cameras as possible.But there’s very little information online about Bovino’s background, his experience, or his rise to overnight prominence. So our team went digging – to his hometown in North Carolina, and to California where his Border Patrol career got started.In “Becoming Bovino,” Sun-Times investigative reporter Lauren FitzPatrick and WBEZ investigative reporter Dan Mihalopoulos sit down with WBEZ’s Patrick Smith to share what they found a...

Making

Becoming Bovino

WBEZ Chicago

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