The battle for pension reform in Illinois made a little progress today. We have the latest from Springfield.

View our interactive graphic to see how Illinois Senate members voted on pension bill SB0001.

View our interactive graphic to see how Illinois Senate members voted on pension bill SB0035.

An excerpt from Captive Audience by Susan Crawford.

Ready to go see the Rosemont Cubs? We look at the offer the suburban mayor is making to bring a new friendly confines to the suburbs.

Is coaching new moms a cost-effective way to fight poverty? We delve into a program that's producing surprising results across Illinois.

Markets react to the latest prognostications from Fed chairman Ben Bernanke.

How fast is your internet service and how much do you pay for it? Law professor Susan Crawford says that in the United States it's too slow and too much. She joins us.

Jazz vocalist Tammy McCann just joined the ranks of the Music Institute of Chicago as an artist-in-residence. She joins us.

On day four of the tax evasion trial of Cook County Commissioner William Beavers, the tide may have turned in favor of the defendant.

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.