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UIC Exhibit: What does ‘Sanctuary’ mean?

Artistic responses to the politically pointed term are on display starting this week at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Learn about the “Sanctuary” exhibit.

Chicago Author’s Memoir Details 8-Month ‘Duck Season’ in Rural France

A place where ducks outnumber people 20 to 1 might not sound like somewhere you’d want to move with your wife and young daughter. But that’s exactly what Chicago author David McAninch did.

Pinball Meets Paschke in ‘Kings and Queens’ Exhibition

Pinball machines and Ed Paschke paintings go side by side as a suburban museum becomes an artful arcade.

US Attorney Zachary Fardon Asked to Resign

United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked for the immediate resignation of 46 remaining U.S. attorneys that were appointed under the previous presidential administration.

State Bill Aiming to Close Gender Wage Gap Advances

A bill prohibiting employers from screening job applicants based on wage or salary history advanced out of the Senate’s Labor Committee this week.

CPS Student Files Civil Suit Claiming School Building Violates ADA

CPS CEO Forrest Claypool and the Board of Education are both named in a civil suit filed Friday by Access Living, a disability advocacy nonprofit, on behalf of the wheelchair-bound student at Drummond Montessori Magnet School in Bucktown.

Chicago Hackathon to Address Resources for Veterans

A weeklong event brings coders and innovators together – both virtually and in person – to build websites and mobile apps to help veterans.

The Week in Review: Illinois Leaders Worry Over Health Care Overhaul

Illinois would get slammed with extra Medicaid costs as Republicans rush to repeal Obamacare. Chicago teachers threaten another one-day walkout. And the Bears cut Jay Cutler. 

New Sponge Can Soak Up 90 Times its Own Weight in Oil

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have invented a new sponge that can absorb oil from water and then be wrung out and reused, a potentially game-changing tool for dealing with oil spills.

ASPIRA Teachers Reach Tentative Deal, Averting First-of-its-Kind Strike

Had ASPIRA teachers gone through with their threat to go on strike March 17, it would have been the first labor stoppage for charter teachers in U.S. history.

March 9, 2017 - Full Show

Watch the March 9, 2017 full episode of "Chicago Tonight."

Chicago’s Top Cop Pushes for Tougher Sentences for Repeat Gun Offenders

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson testifies in Springfield in favor of tougher sentences for repeat gun offenders. But will his proposed changes actually make the city safer?

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Making Science Fun, Understandable

Neil deGrasse Tyson joins Chicago Tonight’s Eddie Arruza for an extended conversation about science and our place in the cosmos. 

Students Give Schurz Food Science Lab a Green Thumbs Up

Visit a Northwest Side high school where a food science lab is growing the next generation of urban farmers.

Jahmal Cole is Challenging Perceptions One Block at a Time

Meet the founder of the nonprofit group My Block My Hood My City, who believes in the power of change.