A city income tax? A toll on Lake Shore Drive? Those are just two suggestions for balancing the city budget from Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson. Elizabeth Brackett talks with Ferguson about his controversial ideas.

Jovan Mosley spent nearly six years in prison for a crime he did not commit. We meet the author of Long Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him.

History and art meet at the Union League Club of Chicago. We tour one of the largest private art collections in the Midwest.

Chicago Sun-Times theater and dance critic Hedy Weiss reviews three titillating new plays.

There’s no good news on the Illinois budget, says the state's comptroller Judy Baar Topinka. Despite a hefty tax increase and new budget cuts, the state will still face an $8 billion budget hole next year. Elizabeth Brackett reports.

The risk of that third shutdown may now be over late today after a funding announcement from FEMA and a tentative stop-gap measure in the U.S. Senate. Carol Marin and her panel have the latest. 

It's more than three years late and over-budget, but it’s finally landed.

It's a landmark date for Chicago's oldest house. How old is it and where might you find it? Paris Schutz has the story.

 It was an ugly home loss for the Chicago Bears Sunday, to the dreaded World Champion Green Bay Packers.

The Dean of Northwestern University's Medill School talks about the future of journalism, and the end of his game-changing and sometimes

We hear what you had to say about recent stories when we read some of our viewer mail. 

Joel Weisman and his panel of journalists discuss the week's top headlines.

Another massive drop on Wall Street. We explore what's behind the latest stock market tumble.

Could the city's massive budget shortfall lead to closing Chicago police stations? The top cop says it could happen. Eddie Arruza and his panel look at the economics of public safety.

They're billions of dollars in debt, and everyone knows major changes and cuts are coming. We examine the present and future of the United States Postal Service in Chicago.