Inaugurated today, Pope Francis called on Catholics to serve “the poorest, the weakest, the least important” in the world.

The water level in Lake Michigan rises after recent rains. But the long-term outlook still has lake levels far below normal.

President Obama's State of the Union called for universal preschool. Nobel Prize-winning professor James Heckman shares his research on the benefit of preschool decades after graduation.

We dig into a deeply rooted exhibition that showcases artists who found inspiration in the common experience of migration.

Chef and author Rick Bayless shows us how to make an American classic with a twist.

The Chicago Water Department is hiring; 160 jobs have opened to install 75 miles of new water main and 57 miles of new sewers in 2013. 

An excerpt from Wool by Hugh Howey.

The former prosecutor in Gov. George Ryan's corruption trial will likely be the next U.S. Attorney in Illinois.

The Chicago Public Schools denies it banned the award-winning graphic novel Persepolis from classrooms and libraries for its depiction of torture. We have the latest on the controversy.

As tax day looms, the numbers show that filings are down 13 percent from where they were this time last year.

Changing the way medicine targets cancer. Could doctors one day kill cancer cells without the use of drugs or chemotherapy? Ash-har Quraishi spotlights some promising research in tonight's edition of Scientific Chicago.

Author Hugh Howey got a writer's dream: multiple publishers offering him million-dollar deals to publish his work. Then he did something most authors wouldn't even consider -- he turned them all down. Howey joins us.

We continue our conversation with "Wool" author Hugh Howey, including how he would reform the publishing industry.

Should religious nonprofits get free water from the city of Chicago? We have your thoughts in tonight's Viewer Feedback.

Dyeing the Chicago River green for St. Patrick’s Day has been a city tradition since 1962. And it’s been a family tradition since its inception. Meet the men who turn the river bright green each year as we revisit our March 17, 2004 story.