The amazing story of Vivian Maier, a Chicago nanny who took more than 100,000 photos during her lifetime but never showed them to anyone.

The story behind the extravagant Hollywood spectacles of a legendary director.

Did Frank Lloyd Wright design a CTA el station?

As we get ready for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we take a look at Dr.

We asked if you support a state income tax increase without further spending cuts. Here are some of your responses.

It's been a historic week for the Illinois General Assembly.

Critics are already predicting a massive business exodus now that the state income tax increase passed, but some say this could be just t

He's a perennial candidate for mayor and governor. So why does he think he has a shot at City Hall this time?

We find out why zoo officials and primate lovers across the country have gone "ape" over Lincoln Park Zoo's newborn baby gibbon.

Newly inaugurated Illinois governor Pat Quinn is backing the 67 percent tax increase plan. But will it pass the general assembly?

Elizabeth Brackett and her panel debate whether the tax proposal is good enough to solve the state's long-term budget problems.

University of Chicago Professor Thomas Holt talks about his new book, Children of Fire: A History of African Americans.

What's behind rising rates of asthma, autism and other childhood diseases baffling doctors?

Famously frightening works of art.