The Chicago Jazz Festival is back, bringing big sounds and homegrown talent to Millennium Park and the Chicago Cultural Center starting Thursday.

In the Loop checks in with two notable figures in Chicago’s jazz community to hear about this year’s lineup, plus what’s next for a new generation of jazz in the city. 

GUESTS: Isaiah Collier, award-winning saxophonist, composer and activist

Heather Ireland Robinson, executive director of the Jazz Institute of Chicago 

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