Kris Kridel of WBBM Newsradio 780 joins us to discuss Google's decision to buy Motorola Mobility and other top business stories.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard announced a new education initiative that will include specialized training and performance-based bonuses for Chicago's principals. Ash-har Quraishi has the details.

A new study out today by Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine diagnoses Chicago’s health, neighborhood by neighborhood. We speak with two of the report’s authors.

We pay a visit to the world’s largest, busiest 16-inch softball league – in Washington Park on Chicago’s South Side.

Joel Weisman and his panel of journalists discuss the week's top headlines in Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review at 7:00 pm.

Need some ideas for what to do this weekend? Chicago Tonight knows what is going on!

The Interrupters is a new documentary about the fight against violence on Chicago streets. Director/producer Steve James and author-turned-producer Alex Kotlowitz, whose original article inspired the film, join us on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm, along with one of the Violence Interrupters

In 1976, Ragdale officially became a nonprofit artists’ community and retreat, but the site has been home to artists since it was built by Arts and Crafts architect Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1897. On Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm, we take a look at Ragdale under renovation to see what’s in store for its future.

Has hyper-partisanship in Washington made "compromise" a dirty word? We talk with two local congressmen about this, and the implications of the newly named debt "super committee."